Good science websites

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I’ve been doing a little hobby research on astrobiology and came across a website from New Scientist. However, I was a bit nervous frequenting the site because I know that they have a habit of militant atheist posts and articles. I was wondering if anyone else had a problem with this site, and if you had any other sources you use for your scientific news.

P.S. thank you everyone for your thoughts on my other posts :blush:

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I tend to lean on Google Scholar. Look up astrobiology and see if any of the authors have substacks or youtube videos. This one by British anthropologist Chris Stringer on human evolution is fantastic, for instance.

A Crash Course in Human Evolution

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Here’s a list of science education resources BioLogos recommends to teachers and homeschool parents:

https://biologos.org/resources/science-education-supplemental-online-materials

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Anton Petrov’s YT channel deals a lot with cosmology and sometimes astrobiology, and you will not find a nicer person on the internet.

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Hey, @Jay313, I appreciate your insight! I have a bit of a follow up question to this forum: how should I approach scientific sites known to promote atheism, or even other religions for that matter?

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Eat the meat and spit out the bones. In other words, do your best to understand the science and ignore the irrelevant stuff. Truth is truth no matter the source. You just have to develop the skill of sifting opinion from fact and discarding the opinions.

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I often don’t appreciate the differences people have in their ability to deal with a lot of reading. For example, finding that readers in Facebook groups can’t cope with more than one paragraph. However, if you are into reading, here are some good books by a single author which deal with Christian Faith and biological science:

Alister E. McGrath Darwinism and the Divine. *Evolutionary Thought and Natural Theology.*2011.Wiley-Blackwell.

Alister E. McGrath The Open Secret. A New Vision for Natural Theology. 2008.Blackwell Publishing.

Alister McGrath Why God Won’t Go Away. Is the New Atheism Running on Empty.2010. Thomas Nelson.

There are, of course, many other books, both those written by McGrath and those written by others; and those written focusing on physics, particularly astrophysics, and Christian belief.

In entering into the debate, even if its only a debate within your own head, don’t get sucked into a debate about “religion” and science. Some arguing from the atheist side often expand the debate from being about Christianity and science to “religion” and science, because such a generalisation gives them a wider basis for attack. You don’t need to get side-tracked into defending other religions.

Also, be wary of those who like to portray a binary view putting the science of the ancient Greeks on the one side versus the supposed superstition of Christian Faith on the other. In historical reality, the Greeks often got much of their science from the ancient Mesopotamians – Assyrians, Babylonians and Persians. Some ancient Greek philosopher/scientists often promulgated superstition. Did you know that the greatly famed Greek scientist, Aristotle, actually taught that we live in an Earth-centred Solar System? Historically, the Christian Faith has given rise to a lot of science and Christian priests, pastors, and religious have been some of the leaders in scientific progress.

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The biggest problem with New Scientists is that it is clicky-baity and “science-fluff”. It can be a good way to identify interesting results, but don’t stop there, always look for the original article, which is usually linked.

The same goes for some similar sites. On one hand it is good to have article interpreted for the lay reader, but sometimes those interpretations are pretty bad, and you can’t tell the difference without the original article.

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