True human race?
Homecloned: I see several, even the two Drs have mentioned the Bible in their post but i haven't heard of anyone mentioning Darwins theory. Enlighten us on this one. There in might be a clue to our answer of race. Did he deal in issues of race and was it theory or did he base it on fact? Appriciate the input.
Small Block
If one looks into the writings of Darwin, especially "Descent of Man", one will find Darwin was an overt racist, even so far as to espouse the elimination of the lower races, whom he preferred to call sub-species. He asserted that all humans came from a single set of ancestors, but many sub-species resulted.
"Those naturalists, on the other hand, who admit the principle of evolution, and this is now admitted by the majority of rising men, will feel no doubt that all the races of man are descended from a single primitive stock; whether or not they may think fit to designate the races as distinct species, for the sake of expressing their amount of difference." Descent of Man, Ch 7.
Incidentally, he viewed his theories in direct opposition to the Biblical teaching of creation. See select, referenced quotes here
http://ministries.tliquest.net/theology/evolution/Darwin's Racism.html
This point of view, however, can lead to as host of evils. To wit, the whole concept of races, sub-species, etc. can be used to justify a range of social activites, such as abortion, forced sterilization, and slavery. Hence the rise of Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned parenthood. Consider this quote, from a NY TImes interview date 7 July 2009, by retiring justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we dont want to have too many of." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/magazine/12ginsburg-t.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all Hitler adhered to a Darwinian view of the "evolution" of man from low to high, and wanted to speed it along by forcecully culling the lower race, and you can guess who he viewed as the lowest of all races...
With all of that said, there is no "pure race" or "original race". For we all came from Adam and Eve, thus, we are all descendants of the same parents. A significant culling of the population occured at the flood, with only Noah and his wife, his 3 sons and there wives surviving. From them came us all. Life continued with a single, universal language until the Tower of Babel, when God confused the languages, and then men scattered across the earth. If only 2 couples went to some remote corner of the world, there descendant would all have features that looked like the original 4, within some bondaries of variation. From this comes the variations of man. However, we are but one species, as evidenced by our ability to interbreed, DNA similarities, etc.
Evolution teaches man is gradually getting better and smarter over time, whereas the Bible teaches the opposite, in that Adam was the pinnacle, and the gene pool is getting more shallow with each suceeding generation.
