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Science! makes them not believe in God but they also believe there are not two genders

Richard Dawkins leaves atheist foundation after it unpublishes article saying gender based on biology

Famed biologist Richard Dawkins resigned from the board of a prominent U.S. atheist organization last week, after it censored an article arguing that gender is tied to biology.

British outlet The Telegraph reported Monday that the Freedom From Religion Foundation pulled the article “Biology is not Bigotry” from its site following backlash from pro-trans individuals. In turn, Dawkins resigned.

In his resignation letter to the foundation, Dawkins called the removal of the piece “an act of unseemly panic” and accused the foundation of having “caved in to hysterical squeals from predictable quarters and retrospectively censored that excellent rebuttal.”

Biologist and fellow FFRF member Jerry Coyne composed the “censored” article as a rebuttal to non-binary author and FFRF fellow Kat Grant’s November article titled, “What is a Woman?”

The biologist’s piece argued that “any attempt to define womanhood on biological terms is inadequate.”

Coyne’s article pretty much stated that biology states that there is male and there is female. That’s it. That’s the science. Sure, there are some aberrations, but, there are not 935 different genders. Male. Female. Female. Male. XY. XX. Because Coyne deals with science, they unpublished his article. God forbid an opposing point of view is heard.

“Publishing this post was an error of judgment, and we have decided to remove it as it does not reflect our values and principles. We regret any distress caused by this post and are committed to ensuring it doesn’t happen again,” they wrote.

It’s now an error in judgement to publish Biology 101.

[Coyne] added, “The gender ideology which caused you to take down my article is itself quasi-religious, having many aspects of religions and cults, including dogma, blasphemy, belief in what is palpably untrue (‘a woman is whoever she says she is’), apostasy, and a tendency to ignore science when it contradicts a preferred ideology.”

That’s a slap in the face of Atheists.