darwins beagle's blog

… Or at least that is MY term for it. Other people, especially outraged Christians like to call it “Militant Atheist”. Recently here at ProgU a blogger came up with another term … “Evangelical Atheist”.  Read More »

Mitt Romney, Republican Governor of Massachusetts, is running for president. He also happens to be a Mormon. And his religion is becoming an issue in the campaign. In 1960 another Massachusetts politician running for president was having his religion becoming an issue in the campaign. He was a Catholic, and no Catholic had ever been elected president.  Read More »

There is something happening on the other side of the world that most Americans know nothing about. And it has, as of the moment, the potential to be the major disaster of the year. There is a category 5 hurricane in the Bay of Bengal approaching Bangladesh. It is called Typhoon Sidr.  Read More »

James Watson is one of my heroes in science. He, along with the late Francis Crick, first elucidated the structure of the most important molecule in all of biology ... DNA. It was an astounding feat, and it set in motion a revolution in biology that has gotten stronger and stronger as time has gone on.  Read More »

In Part 1 I attacked the problem of Jesus' sacrifice as an atonement for our sins. In Part 2 I discussed the lack of a logical reason for God having created us.  Read More »

One of the more common claims among creationists is that while microevolution has been observed there is no evidence for macroevolution.  Read More »

In my first blog of this series I explained why I think the concept of Jesus dying for our sins is a ridiculous one. In this blog I will discuss what I see as the failings of the concept of God’s having created us at all.  Read More »

missionminded_maid has a blog about “perfect prophec[ies]” in the Gospel of Matthew concerning Jesus’ coming. But are they really perfect? Let’s take a closer look.  Read More »