By Mark Ellis —
In a world where the lines between male and female seem increasingly blurred in the popular culture, renowned atheist Richard Dawkins—the Oxford biologist whose The God Delusion railed against faith—has emerged as an unlikely ally in defending the binary beauty of God’s design.
In a candid August 2025 interview with UnHerd, Dawkins pulled no punches, declaring that biological sex is “a true binary” and warning that transgender ideology risks erasing the “fundamental differences” between men and women that science so clearly affirms.
“There are two sexes, and that’s it,” he stated flatly, pushing back against what he called the trendy notion of gender fluidity that prioritizes feelings over chromosomes, as reported in the magazine’s feature “Why Men Are Different from Women.”
For Christians who believe the Genesis account—”God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them”—Dawkins’ words, even though spoken by a prominent atheist: reveal that the staunchest skeptic can acknowledge God’s biological realities.
His remarks ignited over 500,000 social media mentions in the past week alone.
Dawkins has nursed a long-standing frustration with what he sees as the hijacking of science by ideology. In the UnHerd interview, he lamented the “once-great” Scientific American magazine’s recent pivot toward denying sex’s binary nature, calling it a betrayal of empirical truth.
In 2023, Dawkins wrote a New Statesman essay arguing that self-identification laws undermine women’s rights, a stance that cost him the American Humanist Association’s “Humanist of the Year” title for allegedly implying transgender identities are “fraudulent.”
Yet in 2025, as cultural battles intensify—from transgender athletes dominating women’s competitions to drag queen story hours in libraries—Dawkins’ voice carries weight in many circles.
Dawkins once mocked the resurrection as “a conjuring trick with bones,” and now unwittingly is affirming the divine order of creation that Scripture declared by Scripture.
Evangelical leaders like Albert Mohler see it as validation that “truth has a way of breaking through, even in unlikely vessels,” while others warn against allying too closely with an avowed foe of faith.
Christians will pray for those wrestling with gender confusion, that their eyes will turn to the truth found in their identity in Jesus Christ. Richard Dawkins may deny the Light, but in defending creation’s order, he unwittingly points us to God.
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