Phil - I disagree with you here, though it may be a matter of semantics. Perhaps race is not the correct terminology, maybe a better one is tribes (though that is not quite right either).
Like you, I believe we all came from a common parents as the Bible plainly states. I reject evolution as an explanation of how we came to be, however it…
Phil - I disagree with you here, though it may be a matter of semantics. Perhaps race is not the correct terminology, maybe a better one is tribes (though that is not quite right either).
Like you, I believe we all came from a common parents as the Bible plainly states. I reject evolution as an explanation of how we came to be, however it is eminently clear *adaptation* takes place. Adaptation is when an organism changes over short timescales to be more suited to it's environment. We see obvious signs of adaptation all around us, Darwin's finches being the classic example. While Darwin was wrong in his overall conclusions (evolution), his observations regarding adaptation are clearly true.
Human groups were isolated from each other for tens of thousands of years (or longer) before long-distance travel became commonplace. These groups adapted differently; physically attributes, intelligence types, emotional development, and spiritually. Though we are all humans and children of God, we have different GENERAL characteristics. Not completely different as there is large overlap, but the averages are different in quantifiable measures.
This wasn't invented by Marxists but is obviously true to anyone who cares to look. The Marxists haven't created "race" (or tribes or whatever you want to call it) but have used it as a cudgel to turn people against each other. For example, Whites are to blame for the failures of Blacks while the differences between the "races" are ignored. Then at the same time, they also say race is irrelevant and that any shortcoming by an ethnic group can only be explained by discrimination. They do this while pretending obvious counter-example such as Black dominance in the NBA and the NFL don't exist (which points to different physical attributes between races).
I really respect your opinion Phil but I think you have this one exactly backwards. Marxists didn't invent race, it's been around since human groups separated after the fall. What they invented was using it as tool of manipulation and guilt.
I agree and thank you for a more incisive examination of human traits. A false construct of the concept of race has been a lie of Satan for thousands of years to divide us and pit us against each other. It is obviously a difficult contortion of reality to deal with semantically as a result. As I said at the beginning, this is all about defining our terms properly. The variability of the human race is no excuse for pitting us against each other as alien enemies strictly on the basis of physical differences.
As an aside, I would argue that our differences aren't so much an "evolutionary adaptation" as it is simply genetic differences being reinforced through the homogeneity maintained within certain populations.
Phil - I disagree with you here, though it may be a matter of semantics. Perhaps race is not the correct terminology, maybe a better one is tribes (though that is not quite right either).
Like you, I believe we all came from a common parents as the Bible plainly states. I reject evolution as an explanation of how we came to be, however it is eminently clear *adaptation* takes place. Adaptation is when an organism changes over short timescales to be more suited to it's environment. We see obvious signs of adaptation all around us, Darwin's finches being the classic example. While Darwin was wrong in his overall conclusions (evolution), his observations regarding adaptation are clearly true.
Human groups were isolated from each other for tens of thousands of years (or longer) before long-distance travel became commonplace. These groups adapted differently; physically attributes, intelligence types, emotional development, and spiritually. Though we are all humans and children of God, we have different GENERAL characteristics. Not completely different as there is large overlap, but the averages are different in quantifiable measures.
This wasn't invented by Marxists but is obviously true to anyone who cares to look. The Marxists haven't created "race" (or tribes or whatever you want to call it) but have used it as a cudgel to turn people against each other. For example, Whites are to blame for the failures of Blacks while the differences between the "races" are ignored. Then at the same time, they also say race is irrelevant and that any shortcoming by an ethnic group can only be explained by discrimination. They do this while pretending obvious counter-example such as Black dominance in the NBA and the NFL don't exist (which points to different physical attributes between races).
I really respect your opinion Phil but I think you have this one exactly backwards. Marxists didn't invent race, it's been around since human groups separated after the fall. What they invented was using it as tool of manipulation and guilt.
I agree and thank you for a more incisive examination of human traits. A false construct of the concept of race has been a lie of Satan for thousands of years to divide us and pit us against each other. It is obviously a difficult contortion of reality to deal with semantically as a result. As I said at the beginning, this is all about defining our terms properly. The variability of the human race is no excuse for pitting us against each other as alien enemies strictly on the basis of physical differences.
As an aside, I would argue that our differences aren't so much an "evolutionary adaptation" as it is simply genetic differences being reinforced through the homogeneity maintained within certain populations.