A look at the races from genetics and the Bible.

1. How many races are
there?
Fred Williams
B.S. Electrical Engineering

5. …advanced understanding of DNA
reduced the amount of races accepted
by scientists to three: European, Asian,
African.

6. “Now the sons of Noah who went
out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and
Japheth… These three were the sons
of Noah, and from these the whole
earth was populated.”
Gen 9:18-19
The Bible & Genetics

7. …But the LORD came down
to see the city and the tower
which the sons of men had
built. And the LORD said,
Gen 11:1-8
“Indeed the people are one and they all have one
language… “Come, let Us go down and there
confuse their language, that they may not
understand one another’s speech.” So the LORD
scattered them abroad from there over the face of
all the earth, and they ceased building the city.

9. These were the families of the sons of
Noah, according to their generations,
in their nations; and from these the
nations were divided on the earth
after the flood.
Gen 10:32

10. The Bible & Genetics
 Y Chromosome - Male inheritance
 NO variation found in non-coding introns!
 All men trace back to single male ancestor
 MtDNA – Female inheritance
 4 main groups of variation found
 All groups go back to one ‘Mitochondrial Eve’

11. …appears to mutate much
faster than expected

12. “Regardless of the cause, evolutionists are most
concerned about the effect of a faster mutation rate.
For example, researchers have calculated that
“mitochondrial Eve”—the woman whose mtDNA was
ancestral to that in all living people—lived 100,000 to
200,000 years ago in Africa. Using the new clock, she
would be a mere 6000 years old.”
Dr. Ann Gibbons, Science Magazine

15. MtDNA Migration – 4 MAJOR Groups
L type - Nearly all Africans.
M type - Ethiopian, Somali, Indian, Siberians, northern East
and Central Asians, America.
N type - Various parts of Asia, some Australia.
R type - Almost all European populations and a large
number of Middle-Eastern population. Some Chinese.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup

16. An Immoral Act…
Lev 18:6-8, 20:11
‘None of you shall approach anyone near of kin to
uncover nakedness: I am the Lord. You shall not
uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the
nakedness of your mother…You shall not uncover
the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is the
nakedness of your father… The man who lies with
his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s
nakedness’
Also see Lev 20:20-21, Ezekiel 22:10–11

17. Why was Canaan Cursed?
“Then he drank of the wine and was drunk, and became
uncovered in his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the
nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. But
Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their
shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of
their father. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see
their father’s nakedness. So Noah awoke from his wine, and
knew what his younger son had done to him. Then he said:
“Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his
brethren.”
Genesis 9:21-25

18. “Now the sons of Noah who went out
of the ark were Shem, Ham, and
Japheth. And Ham was the father of
Canaan. These three were the sons of
Noah, and from these the whole earth
was populated.”
Gen 9:18-19
Why was Canaan Cursed?

20. On the Origin of Species
by Means of Natural
Selection or the
Preservation of
Favoured Races in the
Struggle for Life –
Charles Darwin, 1859 1st Edition,
1860 2nd Edition
‘Biological arguments for racism may have been
common before 1859, but they increased by orders
of magnitude following the acceptance of
evolutionary theory.’
Steven Jay Gould, Ontogeny and Phylogeny, 1977.
Original Title

21. “Nothing, however, is perhaps more remarkable in this
respect, than that some of the wildest tribes in southern
Asia and Eastern Africa have no trace whatever of the first
foundations of all human civilization, of family life, and
marriage. They live together in herds, like apes, …”
“At the lowest stage of human mental development are the
Australians, some tribes of the Polynesians, and the
Bushmen, Hottentots, and some of the Negro tribes…Very
many wild tribes can count no further than ten or twenty,
whereas some very clever dogs have been made to count
up to forty and even beyond sixty… They have barely risen
above the lowest stage of transition from man-like apes to
ape-like man…”
Ernst Haeckel, "The History of Creation", pp. 362-365

24. “Rushton ranks the
races along an evolutionary
scale with blacks at the
bottom and Asians at the
top.”
Excerpt from "In Genes We
Trust: When Science Bows to
Racism," by Barry Mehler

25. Gal 3:28-29: There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is
neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor
female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Acts 17:26: And He has made from one blood every
nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth…
Rom 10:12-13: For there is no distinction between
Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to
all who call upon Him. For "whoever calls on the
name of the LORD shall be saved."
What Does the Bible Say About Race?

27. Answer: 1
There is only
one Human
“Race”!

29. Acts 17:26: And He has made from one blood every
nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth…

32. Different shades of one color: melanin

37. ‘More and more scientists find that the
differences that set us apart are cultural, not
racial. Some even say that the word race should
be abandoned because it's meaningless…’
‘What the facts show is that there are
differences among us, but they stem from
culture, not race.’
ABC News, ‘We’re All the Same’ 1998