Only One Race

Biblical Basis for Human Unity ��‍��‍��‍��

• Single Ancestry: All humans descend from Adam and Eve, and later from Noah's family after the global Flood. This establishes a single human race from a biblical perspective.
• "One Blood" Doctrine: Acts 17:26 [God] hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth. Gen 3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. These verses highlight that all people are related to one another: having the same blood and same original great grandmother in Eve.
• Tower of Babel's Role: The Tower of Babel event is presented as the primary biblical explanation for human diversity. God's confusion of languages led to the dispersal of people groups, which then, over time, accentuated existing genetic variations within these isolated populations.
• Cain's Wife Explained: Early human populations, being genetically purer, could marry close relatives without the high risk of genetic defects prevalent today due to accumulated mutations. Cain would have married one of his sisters which would not yet be a problem genetically nor forbidden in society since restriction came later in Moses’ law.

Evolutionary Theory Fueled Racism ��

• Darwin's Influence: While sin is the ultimate cause of racism, Darwinian evolutionary theory provided a pseudo-scientific justification for it. Darwin's The Descent of Man, propagated the idea of certain human groups being "closer to ape-like ancestors."
• Increased Biological Racism: Stephen J. Gould states that biological arguments for racism "increased by orders of magnitude" after acceptance of evolutionary theory.
• Dehumanization Examples:
  • Australian Aborigines: Were tragically deemed "missing links" and exploited. 5,000 to 10,000 Aboriginal graves were desecrated by scientists seeking "specimens" in the name of evolution.
  • Ota Benga: In 1904, this Congolese pygmy was publicly displayed in a cage with an orangutan at the Bronx Zoo, a popular exhibit used to illustrate evolutionary connections between humans and apes.
• Fraudulent Science: Ernst Haeckel's doctored embryo diagrams were used in textbooks (like The History of Creation) to teach embryonic recapitulation, despite being known frauds for decades, further demonstrating the problematic scientific underpinnings of evolutionary thought.
• "Highest Type" Classification: A Scopes Trial-era textbook classified Caucasians as the "highest type of all," demonstrating how racist hierarchies were embedded in public education.

Modern Science Confirms Unity ��

• Human Genome Project's Conclusion: The Human Genome Project definitively concluded: "There is only one race, the human race." This scientific finding strongly supports the biblical narrative.
• Minimal Genetic Differences:
  • The genetic difference between any two random people is approximately 0.2%.
  • Genetic differences responsible for "so-called racial characteristics" (like skin color or eye shape) account for a minuscule 0.012% of human biological variations.
• Superficial Distinctions: These figures underscore that externally visible "racial" features are superficial and genetically insignificant, representing a tiny fraction of our overall genetic makeup. Scientists themselves noted that criteria for "race" are based "entirely on external features."

* Information drawn from lecture by Ken Ham, "One Blood: The Biblical Answer to Racism."

* Gemini AI assisted in creating the summary.