There is Only ONE Human Race
I recently found this wonderful website, dedicated to bringing racism to an end: OneHumanRace.
There is indeed only ONE human race. We all descend from Noah. See Noah and Exponential Population Growth . We may have different colors and slightly different shapes now, but those are only biological developments (variation) due to location, isolation, and a whole host of other factors which didn’t take tens of thousands of years to variate as the Evolutionists would like to have us believe. There are strong possibilities that Noah’s sons and wives contained much variation themselves. In other words, Shem, Ham, Japheth, and their wives could have appeared quite dissimilar physically amongst their small group, jump starting the vast variation that would ensue among their descendants, those whom rapidly re-populated planet Earth.
Below are some important quotes from Population Geneticists and science writers regarding genetics and the human race:
“The human genome is not partitioned according to any definitions of racial groups. In fact, there are no parts of the genome that define every member of a racial or population group. The number of genes that have changed to produce all of the variation observed in different racial groups is minuscule compared with the backdrop of natural genetic variation in humans.”
-Georgia Dunston (Quoted on pg.68 Mapping Human History by Steve Olson).
The next quote is a bit long. It is from the last page of a chapter that Steve Olson dedicated to the topic of the interconnectedness of the human race.
Using the genetic differences between individuals and groups to reconstruct human history, as I do in this book, can be a dangerous undertaking. It may seem to imply that the genetic differences between groups are as substantial as the cultural differences that divide us. It even may seem to imply that genetic factors are the cause of these cultural differences.
To avoid these misinterpretations of genetic information, we need to think carefully about what our genes are saying. First, we have to keep in mind the extreme fluidity of human groups. The word “race,” for example, can’t begin to capture the commonalities and differences of our shared history. Most African Americans have European ancestors; all European Americans have African ancestors. “Race” disguises rather than acknowledges our multifaceted histories.
Second, we have to remember how small the genetic differences among groups are. The genetic variants affecting skin color and facial features probably involve a few hundred of the billions of nucleotides in a person’s DNA - an insignificant amount. Yet societies have built elaborate systems of privilege and control around these minuscule genetic differences.
Finally, we must become much better at putting genetics in context. People tend to attribute great importance to the findings of geneticists. But the striking homogeneity of our DNA actually emphasizes the centrality of individual and group experience in determining who we are. Everyone is the product of a particular human and genetic history. Yet this history is shared as well as unique, universal as well as individual. As we learn more about our relationship to the past, we need to find ways of interpreting this information that don’t constrain the human spirit.
-Steve Olson Mapping Human History pg.69
Next are quotes from Spencer Wells‘ recent work Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project.
Rather than belonging to discrete subspecies, humans are part of one big extended family. pg.22
One of the most tantalizing results to come out of the studies by Cavalli-Sforza and Lewontin was the finding that humans might be more closely related to each other than previously suspected. The tree derived by Cavalli-Sforza and Edwards, as with all family trees, traces back to a common source-that vertical line up at the top from which all of the other lines descend. And Lewontin showed that the genetic variation among human races was less than would have been expected if they had been diverging from each other for millions of years. The take-home message was that humans were all family.
What does this mean for everyone’s concept of race? Of course humans come in a wide variety of colors, shapes, and sizes. Over the years these differences have been used to divide humanity. What the genetic data was saying, though, was that underneath the surface we are all much more closely related than we ever suspected. pg.24
Ephraim’s seed has been scattered to the four winds, four corners of the Earth, but Israelite or not, we are all family in a very real sense. Unfortunately, we behave like sheeple in relation to each other. Also, elementary children forming small clicks is another superb example of humanity, minus the fact that elementary children don’t generally kill each other physically, only emotionally and mentally.
See also: Salvation and Genetics; Pure Breed or Pure Non-sense?
Israelite Migrations, European Origins, and Exponential Population Growth
One of the more prominent supporters (Steve Olson: author of Mapping Human History, 2002) for the Out-of-Africa Theory (60,000+ years ago), has shown that the current Global Population size could have been reached within 2,000 to 7,000 years. See the Fox News story which broke in July of 2006. I know it might be difficult for some to understand just how monumental this is, but it truly is HUGE!!
I first read of the development from this Anthropology.net blog:
Could the ancestor of every living human lived only 2000 years ago? (It is now a dead link. I can’t imagine why.)
Olson, Chang, and Rohde corroborated as mathematicians before Mapping Human History was published in 2002. I may be wrong in this assumption because there isn’t any firm dates published in the article. Regardless, it astounds me that this revelation doesn’t profoundly impact the haplogroup origination estimations (the “official” estimates for most all Haplogroups date well beyond 20,000 years ago). Asking the Priests of Evolution to question one of their most basic dogmas is no different than asking a Christian to question the existence of Jesus Christ.
The algorithm Olson’s team used to determine the population group was undoubtedly very complex (read the news article). But here is a great webpage where you can actually play with the different variables in a much simpler Population Growth Equation: Principles of Population Growth. I like to put the starting population variable at “8″ since that is what I believe was the population of Noah’s family. I use 4400 years as the timeframe variable since that is the approximate date of Noah’s Flood according to Bible “literalists” (such as myself) when observing the literal chronologies in the Bible. The “birth rate” variable is the one that has been the most unstable and explosive throughout human history because of wars, famines, etc… But even after giving a very low averaged birthrate of “1%” or “.01″, or even lower, you’ll be surprised how hasty the human population explodes over time. It is the powerful result of exponential mathematics. Put 65,000 years as the timeframe variable and see what you get. The resultant is ridiculous and even absurd, even with many negative “birth rate” periods being considered!!!!!!!
As a frame of reference, when you consider the one hundred years of population growth in the American states between say 1750 to 1850, the “birth rate” variable far exceeded 2% for the general population, which is why European migrant populations to America had so much success populating the North American continent. To think this modern event is isolated, would be foolish considering our previous rapid success in populating the continent of Europe.
I’m currently reading Steve Olson’s book (Mapping Human History) and it is certainly evident that he and Spencer Wells (author of Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project) tow the same (religious) party line, regarding the evolutionary time frames of human migrations. It simply astounds me when they state their numbers in “tens of thousands” of years when the phenomenon of population growth and actual migration history counter those claims. Spencer Wells himself calls the land mass from eastern France to Korea a “super-highway” in his recent book. In my mind, it isn’t so “super” if it took many thousands of years to travel it. Traders traveled it in matter of months and years, not thousands of years. The “Silk Road” is a wonderful example. Of course, they were just traders, but large populations have been known to migrate rapidly. They generally don’t migrate at once, unless driven to do so for food (i.e. the relatively recent Irish potato famine) or driven by other hostile invaders (i.e. Goth and Hun migrations).
Furthermore, it is believed Europe was sparsely (thinly) populated before the Great Migration Period (200-800 AD/CE). Now when looking at the overwhelming frequency of Haplogroups R, I, and N in Europe, we know they either completely wiped out the previous male population in the last 2,000 years or there were no large population at all before that, because of the immense population migration into Europe AFTER that time. Personally, I believe Haplogroup R arrived in Europe in at least two major migrations, one by sea and one prolonged settlement migration by land), which seems to be confirmed by two separate mitochondrial (female) migration arrivals in Western Europe (one by sea / one by land).
First speculative migration: About 3,000 years ago (during and after the life of King David), Israel, Phoenicia, and Egypt were in a maritime alliance. They would go on sea-trade voyages together that would last three years in length and were then repeated after returning home (I Kings 10:21-24). Because Britannia (Britain) and Iberia (Spain) had numerous mineral resources needed back in the Levant and Nile regions, it is believed the Phoenician alliance likely settled those not so “far-off” lands in order to mine Tin, Silver, Copper, etc needed in their homeland building and war pursuits. According to the Bible, we know Israel, Phoenicia, and Egypt intermarried extensively (their respective royal families intermarried for the same reasons European royalty did so in the Middle Ages). In the case of Phoenicia and Israel, they even spoke a very similar, if not the exact same language during the time of David and Solomon. Tyre and Sidon (Phoenicia) neighbored Israeli territory in the north and reportedly inter-married (I Kings 7:13-14), probably more than what pleased the Elohim of Israel (Hosea 7:7-10).
Second speculative migration: About 2,700 years ago, the ten northern tribes of Israel were carried captive into the areas in or around the modern nation of Iran (the Assyrian Captivity). 700 years after the initial captivity (near the time of Jesus), the historian Josephus said the ten Israelite tribes had become an immense multitude in Asia (i.e. Parthian territory. See map below). Two hundred years after the life of Josephus, the Great Migration Period kicked off where enormous Asian populations migrated into Europe, eventually invading and settling Italiana, Britannia, and even Iberia.
The large R Haplogroup population in India is also quite indicative of this second migration. The Parthian-Saka population that fled the Sassanids (Persians) into Europe must have fled to other friendly regions to the south and east as well (modern day Pakistan and India). Those peoples surrounding Parthia at the time of her collapse were friendly because they were of the same stock (Ephraimites) in many cases.
I’m drawing upon many different fields to build these connections. As I read the material that counters my ideas, I try to ingest it without having too much bias, but I readily admit I have some bias because I trust the Bible as an instrument of faith, prophecy, AND history. But you’ll rarely see the Macro-evolutionists admit where their atheistic bias is injected into their legitimately scientific findings.
For those who may be interested, here is a link to a list of many secular scientists who are skeptical of the Darwinian (Out of Africa) theory: A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism.
