r/neoliberal • u/ghhewh Anne Applebaum • Aug 11 '24

Richard Dawkins lied about the Algerian boxer, then lied about Facebook censoring him Opinion article (non-US)

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/richard-dawkins-lied-about-the-algerian
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u/ZigZagZedZod NATO Aug 11 '24

I genuinely like Dawkins' books about evolution. They are accessible to general audiences with little background in biology.

He should have stopped there.

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u/LamermanSE Milton Friedman Aug 11 '24

His critism against religion, atheism and arguing in favor of science were fine and important as well roughly 10-15 years ago, but after that it went downhill. Social media ruined his reputation.

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u/SammyTrujillo Aug 11 '24

One of his criticisms of Creationism is that animals can't be neatly categorized into "kinds" the way the Creation story works. Billions of different species of animals makes taxonomy difficult and a complete fossil record would make taxonomy impossible.

It's genuinely baffling he can't apply this line of reasoning to gender absolutism. Billions of humans and he fully believes anyone with XY chromosomes is Male without exception.

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u/manny_goldstein Aug 12 '24

He believes that animals that produce small gametes and only small gametes are biologically male without exception.