Entries by Dr. Mark Zuccolo

Birth of the Universe

In Ross Douthat’s 2025 book Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, the New York Times columnist and award-winning author advocates for the common sense of religious belief over the defeatism of the non-believer. “We’ll start with religion’s intellectual advantage: the ways in which non-belief requires ignoring what our reasoning faculties tell us, while the religious […]

The Search for God

This is the story of a relationship between a natural, terrestrial human being and a supernatural, extraterrestrial being, which I choose to call the entity. It is not a science-fiction story. It is my brief narrative describing my own and humanity’s search for that supernatural entity and our efforts to understand it, describe it, and […]