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Reading these threads has made me come to a conclusion.

Science is fascinating!

Anyway to learn more about it since I am in my late 20s and will not be going back to school (most likely). Any resources or recommendations?
 

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Reading these threads has made me come to a conclusion.

Science is fascinating!

Anyway to learn more about it since I am in my late 20s and will not be going back to school (most likely). Any resources or recommendations?
What's your area of interest?
 
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Anyway to learn more about it since I am in my late 20s and will not be going back to school (most likely). Any resources or recommendations?

A couple of my favorite Youtubers - fun and interesting things and you get to learn stuff along the way. They will probably have some vids that peak your interest for more information and resources in one direction or another

https://www.youtube.com/c/Nighthawkinlight/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/RobertMurraySmith/videos
 
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Reading these threads has made me come to a conclusion.

Science is fascinating!

Anyway to learn more about it since I am in my late 20s and will not be going back to school (most likely). Any resources or recommendations?

I used to think it was fascinating, because I used to be a real science geek, but now I find it to be quite boring. I prefer philosophy, history and theology.
 
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I prefer philosophy, history and theology.

These are also quite fascinating - science tells us about the world that people live in and those topics tell us about the people who live in that world.
 
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Reading these threads has made me come to a conclusion.

Science is fascinating!

Anyway to learn more about it since I am in my late 20s and will not be going back to school (most likely). Any resources or recommendations?

For geology ( you don't know how interesting it is till you
look) start with John McPhee, " in Suspect Terrain" or one of
his other geology books.

McPhee is not a scientist, but a geology prof told me he
wished he wrote the texts.
 
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For articles written from a Christian view point try Answersingenesis or creation.com
He was asking about learning science.

Those are about a narrow sector of Christian thought,
in which falsehoods, misrepresentation and woo woo
are employed to try to discredit science
and promote an uneducated view of an honourable religion.
 
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He was asking about learning science.

Those are about a narrow sector of Christian thought,
in which falsehoods, misrepresentation and woo woo
are employed to try to discredit science
and promote an uneducated view of an honourable religion.
Name one thing that AiG has said that is blatantly wrong.
 
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He was asking about learning science.

Those are about a narrow sector of Christian thought,
in which falsehoods, misrepresentation and woo woo
are employed to try to discredit science
and promote an uneducated view of an honourable religion.

Science depends on a Christian world view, without which would be unable to function, so scientists that promote ideas, beliefs etc that attack Christianity is in fact hypocrisy.

It is the Christian idea of a consistent reasonable God that delights in man and does not forbid the examination of creation that is behind science.
 
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Science depends on a Christian world view, without which would be unable to function, so scientists that promote ideas, beliefs etc that attack Christianity is in fact hypocrisy.

It is the Christian idea of a consistent reasonable God that delights in man and does not forbid the examination of creation that is behind science.
You will note that I referred to a narrow sector of
Christianity- specifically the yecs- who
depend on anti science to shore up their
faith.
Lots of Christians are quite rational.
I was not talking about the whole
of Christianity or some other narrow slice.


Any suggestion that science needs the yec worldview
is just bonkers.

That cleared up, the whole of your post is still nonsense.

The claimed need for Christianity is nowhere to be seen.

Neither I nor any aspect of science attacks Christianity.

Christians who claim knowledge or support of science then
speak nonsense about it are hypocrites.

As for your consistent and reasonable god, the entire Bible,
right from the first sentence cites exception after exception
to actions neither consistent with each other nor with any
physical law. Likewise with the capricious and arbitrary acts
of " justice" meter out.

Issac Newton, great scientific thinker that he was, was still crippled
by beliefs rooted in what we now understand to be magical thinking.
See " alchemy" where he wasted so much time.

Back to yec, the group identified in my post.
They are much given to simplistic, ill informed
beliefs, and claiming as fact things that are contrary to
all evidence.

Which is what you do in your post there.
What manner of creationist are you?
 
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You will note that I referred to a narrow sector of Christianity- specifically the yecs-
Where would you be without them? :)
Estrid said:
yecs- who depend on anti science to shore up their faith.
Antiscience? or no science? or don't you know the difference?
Estrid said:
Lots of Christians are quite rational.
That's why you're a skeptic? right?

Their rationality turns you off?
 
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Science depends on a Christian world view,

It does? What part of the scientific process or the ontology of science makes it dependent on a Christian world view?

without which would be unable to function, so scientists that promote ideas, beliefs etc that attack Christianity is in fact hypocrisy.

It is possible for a Buddhist, a Muslim, a Hindu or a pagan to be a scientist and not depend on a Christian world view to carry out their scientific enterprises?

Similarly, was it possible for people that had no conception of the Christian god (ancient Greeks, Mesopotamians, Romans and Chinese, for instance) to carry out investigation under scientific principles

It is the Christian idea of a consistent reasonable God that delights in man and does not forbid the examination of creation that is behind science.

Given that science operates under a paradigm of methodological neutralism, I'll bastardize LaPlace and state that the sciences simply have no need of God as a hypothesis.
 
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