Colin Wright: Sex is Binary

I've often referred to the work of Biologist Colin Wright. In this 5 minute video, Colin explains why biological sex is real, immutable, and binary.  To his explanation, I would add this: There is no third sex that has a third type of gamete.  To the extent that anyone claims there is a third sex that has a third type of gamete, please explain how that third type of gamete leads to the creation of offspring.

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The Dangers of Living in an Impoverished Ever-Malleable Present

My dog lives in the eternal present. It's OK for dogs to do so, but not OK for people. People need a sense of history to avoid the mistakes of the past.  People need a foundation of hard-earned knowledge on which to make sense of the future or else they will not ever accomplish great things.  Without a solid foundation of knowledge based on history, people will live like dogs.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

George Orwell - 1984

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