There is Only ONE Human Race
Posted on October 13, 2007
Filed Under Exponential Population Growth, Genetics, Noah, Racism
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?
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