(6 hours ago)Belacqua Wrote: He is has no choice but to deny that trans women are women, if he wants to stay consistent with his "only science tells the truth" conviction. If he were to accept that trans women are who they claim to be, he would have to give up his commitment to the idea that only empirical and objective evidence should be trusted.
So nice of you to stick your neck for trans people. I hope you are genuinely concerned about trans people and you are not just making a circus here by trying to pull a fallacy that if Dawkins is wrong about one thing that he must be wrong about everything. But then again, we already tried to explain it to you that you don't have to have empirical evidence for everything and yet you ignore it, which seems very disingenuous.
And yes, Dawkins can be wrong from time to time because he's a human and humans can be wrong sometimes.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
