Do all humans belong to the same species?
Welcome to Creation Basics where our goal is to make 
God’s creation part of your everyday conversation.
We’re moving forward in our series, featuring number
8 of 10 different instances where evolutionists
have changed position on a major concept that’s
part of the creation/evolution controversy,
towards more of a creationist viewpoint.
And, I’ve been explaining, it doesn’t
mean that evolutionists have switched to believe
in biblical creation, I’m just highlighting
this to show you that science is revealing
creationist interpretations of facts we see
in God’s world, are better understood according
to God’s Word.
Our question today is - Are there different
races of people biologically?
Well even though it’s not in vogue to admit
it today because of the racial implications,
at one time evolutionists held to the idea
that the various types of humans around the
world were actually different species with
different races of men at differing levels
of evolution co-existing.
They imagined the different ‘races’ had
evolved at different times, leading to the
racist idea of some being superior and some
‘less human’.
In contrast, biblical creationists declared
that all men were created equal, there was
only one race, descendants of Adam that were
fully human and created in the image of God.
Don’t believe this is the case?
Go read the Bible and you’ll see that this is
the consistent view in Scripture, we all come
from our original parents, Adam and Eve - there’s
only one race.
Go back in time and look at the earliest evolutionary
textbooks, including Darwin’s own work,
and you’ll see I’m telling the truth,
and Darwinists knew what the Bible said in
contrast to what they believed.
For example; the infamous Ernst Haeckel, the
fellow that forged those fraudulent embryo
drawings evolutionists have admitted are false,
but are still used in some textbooks, well
he wrote a lot about evolution.
In his openly racist book called The History
of Creation he clearly attacked the biblical view:
“All these five races of men, according
to the Jewish legend of creation, are said
to have descended from ‘a single pair’—Adam
and Eve, and in accordance with this are said
to be varieties of one kind or species.
… The excellent paleontologist Quenstedt
is right in maintaining that, ‘if Negroes
and Caucasians were snails, zoologists would
universally agree that they represented two
very distinct species, which could never have
originated from one pair by gradual divergence’.”
Haeckel actually divided humans into TWELVE
different species, and said:
“… most anthropologists dogmatically and
firmly hold to the so-called ‘unity of species’
for all the races of Men, and unite them into
one species, as Homo sapiens.
However, the unprejudiced and critical enquirer…
cannot rid himself of the conviction that
the morphological differences between them
are much more important…”
Haeckel also wrote;
“Thus, for example, a great English traveler,
who lived for a considerable time on the west
coast of Africa, says: “I consider the Negro
to be a lower species of man, and cannot make
up my mind to look upon him as ‘a man and
a brother’, for the gorilla would then also
have to be admitted into the family.”
This is incredibly racist - these ideas not
only convinced evolutionary scientists, but
the general public into believing some humans
were superior to others.
It fueled racist ideas, and when I have evolutionists
protesting these were ‘older evolutionary
ideas’ I like to remind them that I myself,
growing up was reading similar ideas in text
books and other ‘scientific literature like
the Time-Life Books series from the Life Sciences
Library published in 1966, the year I was
born, that showed me colorful charts depicting
a common ape-like ancestor branching into
the separate ‘races’ of man like the Caucasoid,
the Negroid, the Mongoloid and the Australoid.
I’ve got pictures of those books that I
use in my presentations.
And this concept has shown up in my own province
at a local University just 35 minutes from
where I live just a few decades ago in J.
Philippe Rushton’s book
‘Race, Evolution and Behaviour’.
One of the book’s reviewers said:
“Blacks, according to Rushton, have…smaller
brains, making them less intelligent than
whites and Asians.
Using 60 different measures, Rushton ranks
the races along an evolutionary scale with
blacks at the bottom and Asians at the top.”
Now if you just go by what modern science
has revealed you see quotes from articles
like this today;
“…scientists at the National Institutes
of Health recently announced that they had
put together a draft of the entire sequence
of the human genome, and the researchers had
unanimously declared,
there is only one race - the human race.”
So, are there different, biological ‘races’?
No.
Modern evolutionists have had to concede to
the biblical concept of ‘one race’.
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