Creation & Genetics

THE BEGINNING GOD
How did the different ‘races’ arise?

Evolutionist Answer
The Full Title of Darwin’s book was
“On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored races in the Struggle for Life.”

“Their mental characteristics are likewise very distinct; chiefly as it would appear in their emotional, but partly in their intellectual faculties.” (Darwin)

“No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the average white man.” (Huxley)

(I am...) "Inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa. All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours, whereas all the testing says not really...There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically." (James Watson, October 2007)

Creationist Answer
The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9)

“As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase up on.” (Genesis 9:7)

“Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 11:4)

“Come, let us go down and confuse their language…so the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth.”
(Genesis 11:7-8)

The 16 Grandsons of Noah

From Japheth
Gomer- Greeks called Galatians  France/Spain/Wales
Magog- Greeks called Scythians  Romania/Ukraine
Madai- Greeks called Medes  Iran/India (with Elam)
Javan- Hebrew word for Greece itself  Greek People
Tubal-  Georgia across Caucasus mountains (Tobolsk)
Meshech- Ancient name for Moscow  Russia
Tiras- Greeks called Thracians  Yugoslavia (Thor)

From Ham
Cush- Hebrew word for Ethiopia  Ethiopia
Mizraim- Hebrew word for Egypt  Egypt (Gen. 50:11)
Phut- Hebrew word for Libya  Libya
Canaan- Hebrew name for region of Palestine  Palestine

From Shem
Elam- Ancient name for Persia  Iran (Acts 2:9)
Asshur- Hebrew word for Assyria  Assyrian Empire
Arphaxad- Progenitor of the Chaldeans  Hebrew/Arabia
Lud- Ancestor of the Lydians  Western Turkey (Sardis)
Aram- Hebrew word of Syria  Syria (Aramaic)

1. We all belong to the human race
2. Babel broke the unity of humanity
3. Visual distinctions b/w people groups arise via
time
isolation
environment
4. Pentecost fixed the dis-unity in humanity
5. We can all belong to God’s family