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What is a woman? Or a man? It’s all in your genes

By Patricia Weerakoon The Bible says God created humanity male and female. But the Bible doesn’t give us detailed information about how our bodies develop as either male or female. God did however give us the ability to carefully analyse the world and discover the processes whereby our sex development takes place. In terms of Christian theology, this ability to understand the world fits into the broad category of what the Bible calls ‘wisdom.’ King Solomon, the figurehead of Old Testament wisdom, analysed the world: he “spoke about plant life … animals and birds, reptiles and fish” (1 Kings 4:33). In God’s kindness to humanity, discovering these processes does not require religious faith – Christian or any other. All it requires is the humility to pay attention to the external objective realities of the world. That’s what science does. ‘Religious’ people interpret those realities as being established by God. Atheists don’t. But both accept the authority of t...

Every Body Has Authority

By Kamal Weerakoon The biological basis of binary sex should not be contentious. Our bodies demonstrate certain consistent patterns. Science carefully examines and exhaustively documents those patterns. And those patterns demonstrate that there are only two sexes. But this begs the question of what authority our embodied biology has over our understanding of our self, and following on from that, what authority our biological constitution has to guide our way of life. Biology may indeed be binary. But - so what? What right does binary biology have to 'identify' me – to authoritatively tell me something about my self and how I should present and relate to others? Christianity’s doctrine of creation gives Christians good reasons to recognise the authority of embodied biology. God’s creation of humanity as male and female ( Gen 1:26-28 ) is consistent with the binary nature of other animals ( Gen 6:19-20 ) and is an aspect of the goodness – the overall integrated wholesome...

Producing people: reproductive strategies and binary sex identity

By Patricia Weerakoon When we biologists say that sex in humans is binary, and there are two sexes, male and female, we are not talking about sexual intercourse, chromosomes, body types (body shape, breasts), behaviour (masculine or feminine) or personal identity (the so-called inner feeling that you are male or female). When biologists say that sex in humans is binary, we are making a statement about the number of distinct reproductive strategies the human species is capable of. The term ‘reproductive strategy’ is a biological concept. It’s not something unique to humans. It simply means the system for propagating genes and forming a new individual organism. Different kinds of plants and animals have different reproductive strategies. For example, some plants reproduce asexually, through budding or fragmentation. The new plants are genetically identical to the parent, because no new DNA has been introduced. Humans possess a binary reproductive strategy. I mentioned i...

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