{"id":7978,"date":"2026-05-29T22:37:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7978"},"modified":"2026-05-29T22:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:37:58","slug":"tgfi-volume-557-peer-reviewed-miracles-and-ai-informed-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2026\/05\/29\/tgfi-volume-557-peer-reviewed-miracles-and-ai-informed-voting","title":{"rendered":"TGFI, Volume 557: peer-reviewed miracles and AI-informed voting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4396\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\"><\/a>\n<\/p><p>You\u2019ve heard of TGIF? This is TGFI: Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theblondetheist.substack.com\/p\/peer-reviewed-miracles-are-miraculous\">Peer-Reviewed Mir\u00ada\u00adcles: Are Mirac\u00adu\u00adlous Cures Pub\u00adlished in Sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic Jour\u00adnals?<\/a> (Caleb Jack\u00adson, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cIt is often sug\u00adgest\u00aded that, if the evi\u00addence for mir\u00ada\u00adcle cures were tru\u00adly com\u00adpelling, it would be expect\u00aded that such cas\u00ades would be pub\u00adlished in main\u00adstream sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic jour\u00adnals. If these instances can\u00adnot stand the scruti\u00adny of peer review, then they ought to be dis\u00admissed as noth\u00ading more than uncor\u00adrob\u00ado\u00adrat\u00aded anec\u00addotes. I am not per\u00adsuad\u00aded. Indeed, this argu\u00adment remains tooth\u00adless for a myr\u00adi\u00adad of rea\u00adsons. As we shall see below, there are no less than sev\u00ader\u00adal dozen instances of \u2018mir\u00ada\u00adcle cures\u2019 pub\u00adlished in sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic jour\u00adnals, both main\u00adstream and fringe, over the last cen\u00adtu\u00adry. To claim oth\u00ader\u00adwise is to plead igno\u00adrance of the pub\u00adlicly avail\u00adable data.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Includes <a href=\"https:\/\/theblondetheist.substack.com\/api\/v1\/file\/06fd6023-f1c0-4279-9ff6-be2625e65112.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/theblondetheist.substack.com\/api\/v1\/file\/06fd6023-f1c0-4279-9ff6-be2625e65112.pdf\">a bib\u00adli\u00adog\u00adra\u00adphy of mirac\u00adu\u00adlous sto\u00adries pub\u00adlished in aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astralcodexten.com\/p\/use-ai-this-election\">Use AI This Elec\u00adtion<\/a> (Scott Alexan\u00adder, Astral Codex Ten): \u201cI\u2019m not say\u00ading AI is super\u00adin\u00adtel\u00adli\u00adgent or can decide bet\u00adter than you can. I\u2019m say\u00ading that if you \u2014 like me \u2014 spend an hour or so doing research before vot\u00ading on local seats, AI can aid that research very effec\u00adtive\u00adly. And if you don\u2019t do that research \u2014 because you weren\u2019t will\u00ading to waste an hour on it before \u2014 AI makes it so much faster that you might want to start.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He gives a ver\u00adsion of the prompt he used to gen\u00ader\u00adate a cus\u00adtom voter\u2019s guide, so I tried it with a cus\u00adtomized ver\u00adsion and was pleased with the results. I tried it on both Claude and Chat\u00adG\u00adPT, only Claude was will\u00ading to do it. Chat\u00adG\u00adPT seemed to think it was uneth\u00adi\u00adcal to help me. I rec\u00adom\u00admend giv\u00ading it a try. For a start, just go through his prompt sen\u00adtence by sen\u00adtence and change it to what you believe. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/samueldjames\/p\/the-twin-fallacies-of-christian-nationalism\">The Twin Fal\u00adlac\u00adi\u00ades of Chris\u00adt\u00adian Nation\u00adal\u00adism and AI Max\u00adi\u00admal\u00adism<\/a> (Samuel D. James, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cHere are two ques\u00adtions I think about a lot: How does Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty restrict someone\u2019s use of tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy? How does Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty restrict someone\u2019s strat\u00ada\u00adgems in pol\u00adi\u00adtics? These ques\u00adtions come from a con\u00advic\u00adtion that the claims of Christ in Scrip\u00adture are such a nature that one can\u00adnot believe and obey them with\u00adout expe\u00adri\u00adenc\u00ading some kind of lim\u00adit\u00ading prin\u00adci\u00adple on their tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy and on their pol\u00adi\u00adtics. In oth\u00ader words, if you real\u00adly take Christ seri\u00adous\u00adly, your tech use and your pol\u00adi\u00adtics will bear a con\u00adspic\u00adu\u00adous mark.&nbsp;\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronrenn.com\/p\/nihilism-with-a-business-model\">Nihilism With a Busi\u00adness Mod\u00adel<\/a> (John Seel, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cAt one lev\u00adel, the gig econ\u00ado\u00admy reflects an under\u00adstand\u00adable eco\u00adnom\u00adic adap\u00adta\u00adtion to a rapid\u00adly chang\u00ading tech\u00adno\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal envi\u00adron\u00adment. But <strong>every eco\u00adnom\u00adic sys\u00adtem even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly shapes not mere\u00adly how peo\u00adple make mon\u00adey, but how they imag\u00adine real\u00adi\u00adty itself<\/strong>. The gig econ\u00ado\u00admy does not sim\u00adply cre\u00adate gig work. It cre\u00adates a gig mind\u00adset. And that mind\u00adset is increas\u00ading\u00adly reshap\u00ading the moral imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion among younger gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions in deeply con\u00adse\u00adquen\u00adtial ways. At the cen\u00adter of the gig mind\u00adset is the assump\u00adtion that near\u00adly every\u00adthing can become mon\u00ade\u00adtized, opti\u00admized, and con\u00advert\u00aded into mar\u00adket val\u00adue. Every\u00adthing and every expe\u00adri\u00adence are now for sale. The self itself becomes a plat\u00adform. Con\u00adsid\u00ader two rapid\u00adly expand\u00ading phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adna among young adults: men are increas\u00ading\u00adly addict\u00aded to online sports bet\u00adting, and women are increas\u00ading\u00adly post\u00ading on plat\u00adforms such as Only\u00adFans. These two are deeply con\u00adnect\u00aded man\u00adi\u00adfes\u00adta\u00adtions of the same cul\u00adtur\u00adal log\u00adic.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Empha\u00adsis in orig\u00adi\u00adnal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graphsaboutreligion.com\/p\/are-real-catholics-as-conservative\">Are \u201cReal\u201d Catholics as Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive as Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals?<\/a> (Ryan Burge, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cI think this is the best test I can devise to real\u00adly com\u00adpare devout, con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive Catholics to evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals in the same seg\u00adment of the pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion.&nbsp;<strong>I just can\u2019t look at these results and say that \u2018real\u2019 Catholics are just as social\u00adly con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive as \u2018real\u2019 evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals. They aren\u2019t \u2014 empir\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly speak\u00ading \u2014 as con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive on these three core issues<\/strong> [abor\u00adtion, gay mar\u00adriage, and pre\u00admar\u00adi\u00adtal sex]\u2026 What I take away from all of this is that evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal iden\u00adti\u00adty car\u00adries some\u00adthing that can\u2019t be ful\u00adly explained by how often you show up or how con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive you vote. <strong>There\u2019s a the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal and cul\u00adtur\u00adal foun\u00adda\u00adtion to evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adism that shapes how adher\u00adents think about the body, sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty, and the fam\u00adi\u00adly in ways that Catholic iden\u00adti\u00adty sim\u00adply doesn\u2019t repli\u00adcate<\/strong> \u2014 even among the most devout and polit\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive Catholics. The Church may teach the same things on paper, but the peo\u00adple in the pews aren\u2019t inter\u00adnal\u00adiz\u00ading them the same way. And that gap between offi\u00adcial teach\u00ading and lived belief is, frankly, one of the most inter\u00adest\u00ading sto\u00adries in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan reli\u00adgion right now.\u201d \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Empha\u00adsis in orig\u00adi\u00adnal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/silicon-valley-faith-finding-god\">Search\u00ading for God in Sil\u00adi\u00adcon Val\u00adley<\/a> (Avi\u00adtal Bal\u00adwit, The Free Press): \u201cAI work\u00aders tend to be less reli\u00adgious than the rest of the U.S. pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion. They are most\u00adly lapsed in their faith, or were nev\u00ader reli\u00adgious to begin with. Per\u00adhaps they were cir\u00adcum\u00adcised or bap\u00adtized; now they may occa\u00adsion\u00adal\u00adly med\u00adi\u00adtate. This is, for the most part, a mate\u00adri\u00adal\u00adist lot\u2014by which I mean peo\u00adple for whom the world is atoms and phys\u00adi\u00adcal laws with noth\u00ading super\u00adnat\u00adur\u00adal left over, and for whom moral\u00adi\u00adty is some\u00adthing worked out from intu\u00adition or from phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy, rather than received from out\u00adside the world.\u2026 Not all of them would say they are miss\u00ading some\u00adthing, and I take the ones who say so at their word. But enough are vis\u00adi\u00adbly _searching_ that it is worth ask\u00ading what they are search\u00ading for.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author is chief of staff to Dario Amod\u00adei, the CEO of Anthrop\u00adic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-randomness.html\">Per\u00adfect ran\u00addom\u00adness real\u00adized for the first time<\/a> (Gaby Clark, Phys.org): \u201c\u2026Wall\u00adraf\u00adf\u2019s and Ren\u00adner\u2019s teams have found a way to take imper\u00adfect ran\u00addom\u00adness and still extract per\u00adfect\u00adly ran\u00addom num\u00adbers from it. They call their method ran\u00addom\u00adness ampli\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar way, we need to become wise peo\u00adple whose faith inter\u00adacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chi Alpha is not a par\u00adti\u00adsan orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. To para\u00adphrase anoth\u00ader min\u00adis\u00adter: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agen\u00adda. Hav\u00ading said that, I read wide\u00adly (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fair\u00adly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI dis\u00adagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI under\u00adstand\u201d) and may at times share arti\u00adcles that have a strong par\u00adti\u00adsan bias sim\u00adply because I find the arti\u00adcle stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with every\u00adthing an author says in an arti\u00adcle I men\u00adtion, much less things the author has said in oth\u00ader arti\u00adcles (although if I strong\u00adly dis\u00adagree with some\u00adthing in the arti\u00adcle I\u2019ll usu\u00adal\u00adly men\u00adtion it). And to the extent you can dis\u00adcern my opin\u00adions, please under\u00adstand that they are my own and not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly those of Chi Alpha or any oth\u00ader orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion I may be per\u00adceived to rep\u00adre\u00adsent.\n\nAlso, remem\u00adber that I\u2019m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u2019m giv\u00ading you a selec\u00adtion of things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading. There\u2019s a lot hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the world that\u2019s not mak\u00ading an appear\u00adance here because I haven\u2019t found stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading arti\u00adcles writ\u00adten about it.\n\nIf this was for\u00adward\u00aded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/theglendavis.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve heard of TGIF? This is TGFI: Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading 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 \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2026\/05\/29\/tgfi-volume-557-peer-reviewed-miracles-and-ai-informed-voting\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cTGFI, Vol\u00adume 557: peer-reviewed mir\u00ada\u00adcles and AI-informed vot\u00ading\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,348,124,219,153,128,179,117,203,247],"class_list":["post-7978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-america","tag-american-christianity","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-catholicism","tag-economics","tag-holy-spirit","tag-politics","tag-silicon-valley","tag-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-24G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7980,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978\/revisions\/7980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}