YECs: What is God's explanation for the different ethnic groups?

[Catholic Values Voter]

I'm not a young earth creationist (YEC). Myself, I accept evolution and believe it was God's tool for creating humans and the variety of life on Earth. Some people like YECs believe Genesis is a literal account of human history. For those of you who believe this, what is God's explanation for creating different races? Wouldn't it be more effective to just create one color/ethnic group? Considering that racism wouldn't exist if we were all mixed into one race, it's a genuinely good question.

 

[Apologetic_Warrior]

I'm not a young earth creationist (YEC). Myself, I accept evolution and believe it was God's tool for creating humans and the variety of life on Earth. Some people like YECs believe Genesis is a literal account of human history. For those of you who believe this, what is God's explanation for creating different races? Wouldn't it be more effective to just create one color/ethnic group? Considering that racism wouldn't exist if we were all mixed into one race, it's a genuinely good question.

Unable to read the mind of God, except where Scripture is concerned the tower of babel comes to mind...another thought is differences for the purpose of adaptation to different environments. Personally, I appreciate the diversity of races God designed and created, I think it makes for a more interesting planet to live on, inspires wonder and amazement. Imagine if there were only one style of music...as a music lover, I would become bored rather quickly, assuming it were a style I could even enjoy, get into, "dig".

 

[BroRoyVa79]

Who is it that actually categorizes people in different ethnicities, races, etc. based on shared skin color, other shared appearances, geographical location, shared culture, etc.?

 

[Catholic Values Voter]

For the record, I don't mean to imply that the diversity of races is a bad thing in asking this question (in many respects, it's a good thing). I simply wanted to know why YECs think God created all the different ethnic groups. That's all.

 

[BroRoyVa79]

I think if you think about the answer to my question you may come at your question differently.

 

[dreadnought]

I'm not a young earth creationist (YEC). Myself, I accept evolution and believe it was God's tool for creating humans and the variety of life on Earth. Some people like YECs believe Genesis is a literal account of human history. For those of you who believe this, what is God's explanation for creating different races? Wouldn't it be more effective to just create one color/ethnic group? Considering that racism wouldn't exist if we were all mixed into one race, it's a genuinely good question.

I am a this kind of "ist" or a that kind of "ist," but I might turn the question around and ask why SHOULD we all be of one race? How do we justify racism?

 

[Paul.]

what is God's explanation for creating different races?

I am a YEC.
God did not create different races. He created one race. The human race.

 

[JDD_III]

Depends on your definition of evolution.

Additionally, depends on your understanding of what YECs do or so not believe.

 

[The Barbarian]

I am a YEC.
God did not create different races. He created one race. The human race.

Yes. Presently, there is only one race. There were different races at one time. The slight differences in populations of humans that have evolved over many thousands of years are less than the genetic differences within any particular race you might define.

 

[mark kennedy]

I'm not a young earth creationist (YEC). Myself, I accept evolution and believe it was God's tool for creating humans and the variety of life on Earth. Some people like YECs believe Genesis is a literal account of human history. For those of you who believe this, what is God's explanation for creating different races? Wouldn't it be more effective to just create one color/ethnic group? Considering that racism wouldn't exist if we were all mixed into one race, it's a genuinely good question.

Humanity never speciated, we diverge from one another by 1/10th of 1%. There are not really different races although Asian, African and Caucasian populations have distinctive traits. The chimpanzees have speciated at least once as have the gorillas, humans have never experienced such an event. As has been suggested previously, there is really no such thing as race.

 

[ViaCrucis]

I'm not a young earth creationist (YEC). Myself, I accept evolution and believe it was God's tool for creating humans and the variety of life on Earth. Some people like YECs believe Genesis is a literal account of human history. For those of you who believe this, what is God's explanation for creating different races? Wouldn't it be more effective to just create one color/ethnic group? Considering that racism wouldn't exist if we were all mixed into one race, it's a genuinely good question.

Early modern racialist theories tended to try and use the three sons of Noah to categorize broad human racial groups. This is how we get people in the 19th century trying to argue that people of African descent deserve to be slaves, because they are descended from Ham, and Noah cursed Ham's son Canaan. Obviously these racialist theories are total and complete bunk, and seemed only to serve an incredibly racist agenda.

Fortunately we have realized, at least in the sciences, that "race" has no significant meaning. There are no "races" biologically speaking, human diversity exists as a gradient, with neighbor populations sharing similarities--all across the globe.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[miamited]

I'm not a young earth creationist (YEC). Myself, I accept evolution and believe it was God's tool for creating humans and the variety of life on Earth. Some people like YECs believe Genesis is a literal account of human history. For those of you who believe this, what is God's explanation for creating different races? Wouldn't it be more effective to just create one color/ethnic group? Considering that racism wouldn't exist if we were all mixed into one race, it's a genuinely good question.

Hi CVV,

Just because one believes the account of the creation to be fairly specific in how it is explained to have happened doesn't mean that they have some private telephone line to God. We have the same revelation of God to us through the Scriptures as everyone else does. God doesn't give any explanation for 'why' or 'how' He created different colors of human skin anymore than he gives us the 'why' and 'how' He created any other species with varying skin pigments. I'd suggest that if you truly want an answer to that question that you know to be the truth, then you lay your request before God.

We also don't know 'how' God confused the language of people, but the Scriptures do tell us the 'when' and 'why' that came about. Perhaps He created the differing skin tones then also. Perhaps that's another way in which God looks at our hearts. How many of us are willing to love others of us who have the same wants and desires of this life and come from the same mold of the special creation of God of a creature that is created in His image? Could it be that God has created the differing skin colors to see if our hearts are set on the outside appearance of another rather than the loving understanding the sameness we share with our fellow man?

Will there be any slave traders who gain God's gift of eternal life? Will there be anyone who has hated his fellow man for no other reason than the color of the outer wrapping to receive God's gift? God's word speaks quite a bit against hate and there was a time in this country when it was not only well accepted buy pretty much expected of a white skinned person to hate a black skinned person. Even today, while it's not so well socially accepted, there are still a lot of people who operate with a lot of that same hate in their heart. Could that be another way that God looks at our heart?

God bless,
ted

 

[FireDragon76]

God created different races because the white people came out underdone. So he stuck us all in northern Europe and commanded us to make green jello salad, as penance.

 

[FireDragon76]

Early modern racialist theories tended to try and use the three sons of Noah to categorize broad human racial groups. This is how we get people in the 19th century trying to argue that people of African descent deserve to be slaves, because they are descended from Ham, and Noah cursed Ham's son Canaan. Obviously these racialist theories are total and complete bunk, and seemed only to serve an incredibly racist agenda.

Fortunately we have realized, at least in the sciences, that "race" has no significant meaning. There are no "races" biologically speaking, human diversity exists as a gradient, with neighbor populations sharing similarities--all across the globe.

-CryptoLutheran

You can see there's no real sharp boundary between races, for instance, in people in the horn of Africa or people in Central Asia.

 

[The Barbarian]

Fortunately we have realized, at least in the sciences, that "race" has no significant meaning. There are no "races" biologically speaking, human diversity exists as a gradient, with neighbor populations sharing similarities--all across the globe.

Since we have found that there is more genetic variation within any "race" we might define, than there is between "races", there are no biological human races. Race is merely a cultural idea, with no foundation in biology.

 

[SeventyOne]

I'm not a young earth creationist (YEC). Myself, I accept evolution and believe it was God's tool for creating humans and the variety of life on Earth. Some people like YECs believe Genesis is a literal account of human history. For those of you who believe this, what is God's explanation for creating different races? Wouldn't it be more effective to just create one color/ethnic group? Considering that racism wouldn't exist if we were all mixed into one race, it's a genuinely good question.

Skin color is a delineation we use to divide people. There are so many differences in people, everyone has unique features, such as: hair color, hair type, ear size and shape, eye color, eye shape, nose size, lip size, mouth contour, chin prominence, skin hair, skin pore size, skin color, skin freckles, shoulder shape and girth, etc, right on down the line and many others I missed along the way.

Everything God creates is diverse, just as no two humans are made the same, there are also no two identical hills, rocks, trees, flowers, dogs, fish, clouds, or whatever.

Man is the only creature imposing some special meaning on the color of skin. Why should we even consider transferring our sin in that matter on God as if He's somehow at fault?

 

[TheDaniël]

Humans dont need evolution, we are black and white like hair is black and white. How does the bible say that there is no superior race? Let me tell you? The beauty of a young man is his strength, the beauty of an old man is the whiteness of his beard.
Proverbs 20:29

 

[lismore]

Considering that racism wouldn't exist if we were all mixed into one race, it's a genuinely good question.

Hello

We are one race. Any perceived 'differences' are at most superficial. We are all descended from the first man and woman created by God in the image of God.

In my opinion it is the false theory of evolution that promotes racism. It's a shame that any Christians believe such falsehood as evolution because it's a demonic theory that brings no good.

God Bless

 

[The Barbarian]

I am a YEC.
God did not create different races. He created one race. The human race.

This is true. There were other races, such as Neandertals and Denisovans, who were still our own species, but genetically differnent enough to be different races.

There are no biological human races today, in spite of what some YECs have said. Henry Morris, the founder of the Institute for Creation Research, thought that blacks were an inferior race intellectually and spiritually.

I am pleased to see that many YECs today are rejecting that doctrine.

 

[The Barbarian]

There are races, of course. There just aren't any biological races. This is why the number of races varies by culture. It's just whatever that culture thinks about it.