{"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 Interesting<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues likely to be of interest to Christians in college. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions, so if you read something fascinating 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 intellectual adolescence, religion\u2019s popularity soars<\/a> (Charles Murray, New York Post): \u201c\u2026I had concluded that when religion no longer supplies a framework for thinking about transcendent qualities, artists tend to make their work about their personal preferences, and their personal preferences tended to be self-absorbed and banal. As an unbeliever, what was I to make of that? One option was to infer that the great artists of the past had foolishly imagined they were tapping into the transcendent, and their delusion inspired them. But that line of thought became embarrassing when I confronted their work. Is it plausible that those individuals who achieved things so far beyond the rest of us were uniformly stupid about the great questions? I decided they understood things we don\u2019t. Johann Sebastian Bach does not need to explain himself.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. 1 in 5 chemists have deliberately added errors into their papers during peer review, study finds<\/a> (Dalmeet Singh Chawla, Chemical and Engineering News): \u201cMore than 20% of chemistry researchers have deliberately added information they believe to be incorrect into their manuscripts during the peer review process, in order to get their papers published.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The Girls Who Found God in a Podcast<\/a> (Kara Kennedy, The Free Press): \u201cGirls Gone Bible <\/em>launched in 2023, with a weekly show, and has since amassed more than 20 million listens, and nearly two million followers on Instagram and TikTok combined.\u2026 what struck me most about the audience at the Keswick Theater was how normal, how cool, they all were. These weren\u2019t the caricature of \u2018Jesus freaks,\u2019 but more like Regina George with eyelash extensions. They spoke about burnout, and loneliness, and how hard it is to get a guy to commit to you, and wanting to take life seriously.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Two articles about a widespread sin: