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Lab Letters Issue #12: Soft Robots, Super Rice, and a Wet Towel in Space

It's that time again - the time for your weekly science updates. This is Lab Letters. Let's go!

Darwin Date, Feb 16, 2 PM, at 121 Grille

It's absolutely free, and absolutely anyone can come--no matter your relationship status, or how evolved you are as a living thing!

Evolution is Not a Religious Issue

People in highly influential positions such as parents, teachers, and clerics, whom other people (most especially children) look up to as sources of truth, continue to preach against evolution while hardly knowing anything about it. In most cases, arguments against evolution revolve around citing Bible verses or attacking straw man versions of the theory.

Beauty, Life, and Death through a Macro Lens: Is there an Intelligent Designer?

Such beauty compels some people to conclude that there must be an Intelligent Designer, a Loving Creator who creates and sustains life. However, naturalists argue that it is the sun which is the ultimate sustainer of all life on earth.

Gonorrhea Takes Human DNA

Just in time for Valentine's Day, researchers from Northwestern Medicine have discovered that the bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted infection of Gonorrhea, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, has taken up human DNA and incorporated it into its own genome.

Evolution-based morals? Don't pick up the soap!

So I seem to have opened up a can of worms when I tried to point out the absence of empirical...

Darwin's Missing Link

Since my political commentaries aren’t always publishable here at the Filipino Freethinkers site, I decided to just focus on themes that...

The Genetic Case Against God

If there was any branch of science that could have ever vindicated the doctrine of vitalism (the belief that something nonphysical is the force behind the phenomenon of life), it would have been molecular biology and its study of the genetic and chemical underpinnings of life.

The Hermit Crab – A Christian/Creationist Nightmare

Remember that issue about the banana as an atheist nightmare. Ray Comfort from "Way of the Master" uses a banana to...

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