Q&A articles

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FEATURE ARTICLE: What is the only answer to racism? Answer

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Q. Where did the “races” come from?

According to the Bible, all humans on Earth today are descended from Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives, and before that from Adam and Eve. But today we have many different groups, often called "races," with what seem to be greatly differing features. The most obvious of these is skin color. Many see this as a reason to doubt the Bible's record of history. They believe that the various groups could have arisen only by evolving separately over tens of thousands of years. However, as we shall see, this does not follow from the biological evidence... Full Answer

Q. How did different skin colors come about?

Today we have many different groups, often called "races," with what seem to be greatly differing features. The most obvious of these is skin color. We know that skin color is governed by more than one pair of genes. For simplicity, let's assume there are only two... Full Answer

Q. What are the consequences of false beliefs about the origin of races?

False beliefs about the origin of races have led to widespread problems worldwide. The effects are far-reaching and include some of the following results... Full Answer

Q. Are black people the result of a curse on Ham?

Discussions found in our other articles, such as "How did different skin colors come about?" show clearly that the blackness of, for example, black Africans, is merely one particular combination of inherited factors. This means that these factors themselves, though not in that combination, were originally present in Adam and Eve. The belief that the skin color of black people is a result of a curse on Ham and his descendants is nowhere taught in the Bible... Full Answer

Q. What about the “Stone Age” people?

Archaeology shows that there have been people who lived in caves and used simple stone tools. There are still people who do the same. All people on Earth today are descended from Noah and his family. Before the flood, Genesis indicates there was at least enough technology to make musical instruments, farm, forge metal implements, build cities, and build a huge seaworthy vessel... Full Answer

Q. Is interracial marriage wrong?

What if a Chinese person were to marry a Polynesian, or an African with black skin were to marry a Japanese, or a person from India were to marry a person from America with white skin ö would these marriages be in accord with biblical principles? There are a significant number of Christians (particularly in America) who would claim that such 'interracial' marriages directly violate God's principles in the Bible, and should not be allowed. But does the Word of God really condemn such mixes as those above? Is there ultimately any such thing as 'interracial marriage?' Full Answer

Q. Who was Cain's wife?

We don't even know her name, yet she was discussed at the Scopes trial, mentioned in the play and movie Inherit the Wind and the book and movie Contact, and has been talked about in countries all over the world. Skeptics have used Cain's wife time and again to try to discredit the Book of Genesis as a true historical record. Sadly, most Christians have not been able to give an adequate answer to this question... Full Answer

Q. Is downplaying “race issues" the best solution?

While some may contend that race relations can be improved by not talking about it, we would contend that it is not a strategy that should be adopted by the church in general. For many Bible-believing churches, racism is still a problem that, rather than being ignored, needs to be fully addressed—which can be accomplished through sound biblical teaching. Full Answer

Q. How does evolution influence racist attitudes? (the following articles will answer this question in depth)

Ota Benga: The man who was put on display in the zoo!

One of the most fascinating stories about the effects of evolution on human relations is the story of Ota Benga, a pygmy who was put on display in a zoo as an example of an evolutionarily inferior race. The incident clearly reveals the racism of evolutionary theory and the extent to which the theory gripped the hearts and minds of scientists. Full Article

The Australian Aboriginal

When Captain Cook arrived in Australia some 200 years ago, he encountered a dark-skinned race of nomadic people with a stone age culture. Evolutionists say these Aborigines came to Australia at least 40,000 years ago from unknown origins. The evolutionary view which is taught in schools and promoted in the media is really saying these were a people who hadn’t evolved as fast as other types of man... Full Article

Darwinism and the Nazi race Holocaust

Leading Nazis, and early 1900 influential German biologists, revealed in their writings that Darwin’s theory and publications had a major influence upon Nazi race policies. Full Article

The Fallacy of Racism

One of the prevalent evidences of man’s inhumanity to man is racism. Put simply, racism is prejudice against people of other ‘races’ for that reason alone. Stereotypical rules are applied to demean individuals based on their cultural background, skin colour, appearance or accent. Full Article

Japan, war, and evolution

Few have realized the degree to which Japanese thinking leading up to and during World War II was also heavily influenced by Darwin. Japanese thought blended the theistic with the evolutionary. Full Article

Child-stealers

Tens of thousands of Americans were sterilized en masse, thus stealing from them the children they would never see - because of deliberate evolutionary practices. In Australia there is now an even bigger issue involving child-stealing. Government policy, continued till the 1970s, caused some 100,000 children of Australia's aboriginal people to be taken from their parents into foster homes or institutions, by force if necessary. Full Article