RE: Ben Shapiro vs Neil deGrasse Tyson: The WAR Over Transgender Issues
January 2, 2025 at 9:59 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2025 at 10:09 pm by Belacqua.)
(January 2, 2025 at 4:44 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: Ben Shapiro asks “Is so and so scientific” or “How do you determine scientifically that a person is a women” or something like that.
He wants something that is true.
This has also caused a schism among the [formerly] high-profile atheists.
Richard Dawkins, Jerry Coyne, and Stephen Pinker have all resigned from the Freedom From Religion Foundation because they take a view similar to Shapiro's. They think that there must be a scientific, objective way to determine who is male and who is female.
P.Z. Myer, who also used to get a lot of attention at atheist conventions and places like that, has stuck with the FFRF and agreed that a trans woman is a real woman. He and his allies have become quite vocal about it, calling Dawkins and Coyne "trash." Considering they all used to hang out together, it looks as though some friends are now not so friendly any more.
Coyne has insulted the FFRF with the worst word he knows: "religion." He claims that "wokism" is a new religion, with a set of unprovable beliefs that one must claim to believe if one is to be a good person, and that he can't sign up because he needs objective evidence for his beliefs.