and of christian opinion

have the mistaken notion that the Bible prescribes permanent racial divisions among men and is, therefore, the cause of modern racial hatreds.

racial hatred has been around for hundreds, if not thousands, of years

As a matter of fact, the Bible says nothing whatever about race. Neither the word nor the concept of different "races" is found in the Bible at all.

possibly because they didnt know there were other races..or they lived along with many different races for years and didnt think much of it

As far as one can learn from a study of Scripture, the writers of the Bible did not even know there were distinct races of men, in the sense of black and yellow and white races, or Caucasian and Mongol and Negroid races, or any other such divisions.
The formation of the original divisions, after the Flood, was based on different languages (Genesis 11:6-9), supernaturally imposed by God, but nothing is said about any other physical differences.

how can morris say physical differences began there?..the bible doesnt say they happened there

and why did they occur?..you want to accuse evolution of being evil because it says some races evolved from others, but skin color changed because the lighter somebodys skin is, the more sunlight it can take in..the sun is out less in europe, so a higher percentage of the available sunlight is needed to be taken in

For example, Charles Darwin selected as the subtitle for his book Origin of Species the phrase "The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life". It is clear from the context that he had races of animals primarily in mind, but at the same time it is also clear, as we shall see, that he thought of races of men in the same way.

which is irrelevant to whether evolution occured or not..most of england was racist then..most of england was also christian..it might not be because of christianity(although slavery was defended with some verses from the bible), but racism usually comes from growing up in a racist environment

“The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a fraternal, patriotic movement promoting the ideals of Western Christian Civilization and White Racial political self-determination.” ---ku klux klan

That this concept is still held today is evident from the following words of leading modern evolutionist George Gaylord Simpson:

"Races of man have, or perhaps one should say 'had', exactly the same biological significance as the sub-species of other species of mammals."

i dont know that you can say thats racist..theres tabby, russian blue, siamese and other kinds of cats..that doesnt make them not cats..no competent biologist claims that blacks arent human

It is clear, therefore, that a race is not a Biblical category, but rather is a category of evolutionary biology. Each race is a sub-species, with a long evolutionary history of its own,

what does that have to do with anything?..the first homo sapiens probably had black skin(because everybody has the pigment, the lighter the skin, the less it is active)

in the process of evolving gradually into a distinct species.

and that probably would have happened if they were separated for a longer time..

As applied to man, this concept, of course, suggests that each of the various races of men is very different, though still inter-fertile, from all of the others. If they continue to be segregated, each will continue to compete as best it can with the other races in the struggle for existence and finally the fittest will survive.

what the heck is he talking about?

Or else, perhaps, they will gradually become so different from each other as to assume the character of separate species altogether (just as apes and men supposedly diverged from a common ancestor early in the so-called Tertiary Period).

and there is plenty of evidence to suggest humans and apes both evolved from an earlier species(kenyapithecus)..evolution occurs in small populations

Most modern biologists today would express these concepts somewhat differently than as above, and they undoubtedly would disavow the racist connotations. Nevertheless, this was certainly the point-of-view of the 19th century evolutionists, and it is difficult to interpret modern evolutionary theory, the so-called neo-Darwinian synthesis, much differently.

and the KKK is a white-christian organization who believes that god is on their side..that doesnt disprove christianity..people that use evolution to justify racism dont understand evolution..they dont understand evolution is variation

Nineteenth-Century Evolutionary Racism

what about nineteenth-century christian racism?

The rise of modern evolutionary theory took place mostly in Europe, especially in England and Germany. Europeans, along with their American cousins, were then leading the world in industrial and military expansion, and were, therefore, inclined to think of themselves as somehow superior to the other nations of the world. This opinion was tremendously encouraged by the concurrent rise of Darwinian evolutionism and its simplistic approach to the idea of' struggle between natural races, with the strongest surviving and thus contributing to the advance of evolution.

evolution isnt an advancement..it is variation..people that dont understand that might think “white’s ancestors include blacks..but black’s ancestors dont include whites..whites evolved later, they must be better”..but that isnt so because evolution is a variation..and to think that these people want evolution to be taught less

As the 19th century scientists were converted to evolution, they were thus also convinced of racism.

wrong..most europeans and americans were already racist..most europeans and americans were also christian..evolution had nothing to do with racism

The white race had advanced farther up the evolutionary ladder

what evolutionary ladder would that be?

Charles Darwin himself, though strongly opposed to slavery on moral grounds, was convinced of white racial superiority. He wrote on one occasion as follows:

and south(also known as the bible belt) was not only convinced of white superiority, but used the bible to support slavery..that has nothing to do with whether christianity is true or not

Racist sentiments such as these were held by all the 19th century evolutionists.

racist sentiment was held by virtually all 19th century whites in america(especially the south), and by most europeans..but unless you have show that at least most of those people accepted evolution, this type of argument is pathetic

In a day and age which practically worshipped at the shrine of scientific progress, as was true especially during the century from 1860 to 1960, such universal scientific racism was bound to have repercussions in the political and social realms. The seeds of evolutionary racism came to fullest fruition in the form of National Socialism in Germany.

hitler was a catholic and said he was doing gods work..he would have been racist whether evolution had been discovered or not

"Christianity makes no distinction of race or of colour: it seeks to break down all racial barriers.

and that doesnt stop groups like the KKK from claiming that god decided for white people to have dominion over everybody else

In this respect, the hand of Christianity is against that of Nature, for are not the races of mankind the evolutionary harvest which Nature has toiled through long ages to produce?"

the word “evolution” does not appear on the klans webpage..as far as i know, the klan has no view on the subject

In recent decades, the cause of racial liberation has made racism unpopular with intellectuals and only a few evolutionary scientists still openly espouse the idea of a long-term polyphyletic origin of the different races. On the other hand, in very recent years, the pendulum has swung, and now we have highly vocal advocates of "black power" and "red power" and "yellow power", and these advocates are all doctrinaire evolutionists,

what are his sources for that claim?

According to the Biblical record of history, the Creator’s divisions among men are linguistic and national divisions, not racial.

but morris claims they are in fact racial earlier in the posting..so, assuming he is correct, the creator made divisions among linguistics, nations and races..what was the reason for any of those divisions?

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