"Evolutionary theory has shown that there are no biological human races."
Your fellow YE creationists disagree with you...
The last world-classbiologist who opposed Darwnian theory (Agassiz) thought that black people did not even descent from Adam and Eve. And one of the founders of the Institute for Creation Research wrote bit of racial slander:
Yet the prophecy again has its obverse side. Somehow they have only gone so far and no farther. The Japhethites and Semites have, sooner or later, taken over their territories, and their inventions, and then developed them and utilized them for their own enlargement. Often the Hamites, especially the Negroes, have become actual personal servants or even slaves to the others. Possessed of a genetic character concerned mainly with mundane matters, they have eventually been displaced by the intellectual and philosophical acumen of the Japhethites and the religious zeal of the Semites.
YE creationist and ICR director Henry Morris The Beginning of the World, 1991
As you know, evolutionary theory indicates that there are no biological human races, but as late a 1991, creationist leaders were blathering about the supposed racial inferiority of black people. This is one of the important differences between creationists and Christians who accept evolution.
Not that all creationists are racists. Many, probably most, are not. But to see such blatant and ridiculous racism from a creastionist leader in the 1990s, indicates a serious problem with YE creationism.
I believe you've been shown that Darwin differed from most creationists of his day by opposing slavery and considering all humans to be equally entitled to respect and rights. He scandalized many creationists of his day by insisting that if one took a group of "primitive" humans to England, within a few generations, their descendants would be just like Englishmen.
See above. You have it backwards. We see creationist leaders like Morris and William Tinkle, endorsing racism and eugenics, at the same time Darwinian geneticists were exposing it for the nonsense it is. Would you like me to show you, again?
I"m pretty sure you're not lying, and I don't want to call you "ignorant." You were clearly not aware of this, but creationist organizations aren't exactly proud of that history.
Yep. But that's a loser for you, too. "Races" is the term that biologists of the time used for classifying varieties of organisms within the same species. In fact, Darwin never mentions anything about human evolution in that book.
With Murray's persuasion, the title was eventually agreed as On the Origin of Species, with the title page adding by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.[3] In this extended title (and elsewhere in the book) Darwin used the biological term "races" interchangeably with "varieties", meaning varieties within a species.[76][77] He used the term broadly,[78] and as well as discussions of "the several races, for instance, of the cabbage" and "the hereditary varieties or races of our domestic animals and plants",[79] there are three instances in the book where the phrase "races of man" is used, referring to races of humans.
On the Origin of Species - Wikipedia
Most like likely you didn't know that. (Hence the benefit of the doubt)
If you accept evolution, you cannot consistently be a racist, since (as you learned earlier) evolutionary theory shows that there are no biological human races. On the other hand racists like Henry Morris of the Institute for Creation Research were still peddling foolish ideas about the supposed intellectual and spiritual inferiority of black people. As I said, many, perhaps most creationists are not racists. But it's disturbing that it was present in the creationist leadership so recently.
In fact, the Darwinian geneticist Punnett (of Punnett square fame) showed that Hitler's eugenic and racial ideas were not only despicable (as Darwin wrote) but were also scientifically unsupportable.
Geneticist Reginald Punnet, who invented the Punnett Square, method of quantifying the inhertiance of genetic traits, showed that eugenics would not work. Punnet explained that even with the strongest negative eugenics, carried out against individuals who were homozygous for the inferior gene, it would take 22 generations (almost 500 years) to reduce the amount of feeblemindedness from 1 percent to 0.1 percent in a population, according to his calculations.
Encyclopedia of Evolution (p. 147)
Hitler pointed to another source for his "final solution."
The Nazis Exploited Martin Luther’s Legacy. This Berlin Exhibit Highlights How.
About 90% of Hitler's "final solution" can be found in Luther's work,
On the Jews and Their Lies.
It's not an accident that creationism is most prevalent where segregation existed in the United State. Most people have moved past that dark period in our nation, but not everyone.
