Atheist Scientists Call Out Academic Quackery
A recent video from the PBS Eons YouTube channel wrestled with how to distinguish between male and female dinosaurs when all that is left are bones. The host defined biological sex as applied to these extinct creatures: “In this script, we’ll be using ‘male’ and ‘female’ as shorthand for ‘sperm-producing’ and ‘egg-producing’ individuals.” This definition is essentially correct. A given individual, whether human or dinosaur, just is male or female. We identify sex; we don’t “assign” it. Sex is objective and binary and has to do with the two distinct roles in reproduction.
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John Stonestreet is president of the Colson Center and co-host of BreakPoint, the daily commentary on culture begun by Chuck Colson. Shane Morris is a senior writer for Breakpoint and host of the podcast Upstream.
