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Religion is a Mental Illness

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With the Olympics on, an interesting website exploring biological dimorphism by comparing the performance of elite high school boys’ (≤18) athletics with the performance of elite female Olympians.

It uses public data from 2016 Track & Field and Swimming national high school championship events, and the 2016 Olympic women’s finalists to pit the two groups head-to-head, on paper at least.

Suffice to say, the results are interesting.

It further explores at what age the high school boys (≤18) champions surpass the women’s world records.

Of course, this is due to more than merely hormones:

The human body is a fascinating organism, and it turns out biology is actually a real thing.

While this will undoubtedly bother some people for nothing better than political reasons, as we say to religious believers, reality doesn’t care about your feelings: get better feelings. Neither does evolution, chromosomes, DNA or genetics. It’s worth reflecting on why reality troubles you so much. You can get accept it, or you can get upset about it, but it still just is.

If it doesn’t bother you that women and men compete in different gymnastic events, use differently weighted Track & Field equipment (hammer, discus, javelin, shot put, etc), or race across hurdles of different heights, then you already accept that dimorphism is a thing.

Since we can observe these traits in other species, including other apes, to deny or reject any of this is really to deny evolution as fervently as Ken Ham.

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