{"id":7820,"date":"2025-10-24T19:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7820"},"modified":"2025-10-24T19:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:30:15","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-527-beyond-adolescent-atheism-counterproductive-peer-review-and-girls-gone-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/10\/24\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-527-beyond-adolescent-atheism-counterproductive-peer-review-and-girls-gone-bible","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 527: beyond adolescent atheism, counterproductive peer review, and Girls Gone Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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You\u2019ve heard of TGIF? This is TGFI: Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues like\u00adly to be of inter\u00adest to Chris\u00adtians in col\u00adlege. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions, so if you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. As we grow out of intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal ado\u00adles\u00adcence, religion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pop\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adty soars<\/a> (Charles Mur\u00adray, New York Post): \u201c\u2026I had con\u00adclud\u00aded that when reli\u00adgion no longer sup\u00adplies a frame\u00adwork for think\u00ading about tran\u00adscen\u00addent qual\u00adi\u00adties, artists tend to make their work about their per\u00adson\u00adal pref\u00ader\u00adences, and their per\u00adson\u00adal pref\u00ader\u00adences tend\u00aded to be self-absorbed and banal. As an unbe\u00adliev\u00ader, what was I to make of that? One option was to infer that the great artists of the past had fool\u00adish\u00adly imag\u00adined they were tap\u00adping into the tran\u00adscen\u00addent, and their delu\u00adsion inspired them. But that line of thought became embar\u00adrass\u00ading when I con\u00adfront\u00aded their work. Is it plau\u00adsi\u00adble that those indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals who achieved things so far beyond the rest of us were uni\u00adform\u00adly stu\u00adpid about the great ques\u00adtions? I decid\u00aded they under\u00adstood things we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. Johann Sebas\u00adt\u00adian Bach does not need to explain him\u00adself.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. 1 in 5 chemists have delib\u00ader\u00adate\u00adly added errors into their papers dur\u00ading peer review, study finds<\/a> (Dalmeet Singh Chawla, Chem\u00adi\u00adcal and Engi\u00adneer\u00ading News): \u201cMore than 20% of chem\u00adistry researchers have delib\u00ader\u00adate\u00adly added infor\u00adma\u00adtion they believe to be incor\u00adrect into their man\u00adu\u00adscripts dur\u00ading the peer review process, in order to get their papers pub\u00adlished.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The Girls Who Found God in a Pod\u00adcast<\/a> (Kara Kennedy, The Free Press): \u201cGirls Gone Bible <\/em>launched in 2023, with a week\u00adly show, and has since amassed more than 20 mil\u00adlion lis\u00adtens, and near\u00adly two mil\u00adlion fol\u00adlow\u00aders on Insta\u00adgram and Tik\u00adTok com\u00adbined.\u2026 what struck me most about the audi\u00adence at the Keswick The\u00adater was how nor\u00admal, how cool, they all were. These weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the car\u00adi\u00adca\u00adture of \u2018Jesus freaks,\u2019 but more like Regi\u00adna George with eye\u00adlash exten\u00adsions. They spoke about burnout, and lone\u00adli\u00adness, and how hard it is to get a guy to com\u00admit to you, and want\u00adi\u00adng to take life seri\u00adous\u00adly.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Two arti\u00adcles about a wide\u00adspread sin:\n