G1 Conference Session 3: Dr. Georgia Purdom "A Biblical Perspective on Race"

Well, hi everyone. It's a pleasure to be here with you today and to meet in this virtual online conference.

It's a great new way to share the truth of God's word and I'm glad to be a part of that.

And we're going to be talking today about the issue of race. And so I'm going to share my screen here and be able to show you some slides so that you can follow along here with my presentation on Only One Race, The Biblical Answer to Racism.

And the issue of race is obviously a very relevant topic in our world today and I'm thankful for the opportunity to be able to address it.

So in this presentation, I'm going to cover three main areas. So I'm just going to give you kind of a general outline here.

We're going to talk about the biblical perspective on race. Then we're going to talk about how a secular worldview of race leads to racism and the horrific cultural outcomes of that.

And then we're going to talk about how science supports that biblical perspective. So those are the three main areas.

So I want to start off by asking some questions. And then as we go through the presentation, keep those in mind because we're going to answer those questions.

So does the Bible support the idea of multiple races, right? What does that mean for the gospel?

Because Jesus only died for Adam's race, right? Hasn't the Bible been used to support racism? What about things like interracial marriage?

And how should we relate to people who look differently from us? Those are some really critical questions that we need to ask ourselves.

So first and foremost, as Christians, we want to start with the Bible to answer this question. For this one, we have to start, like many other questions, we have to start at the very beginning of the

Bible with the very, what we call this, we're going to talk about the seven C's that we talk about here in Answers in Genesis.

But we're going to start with that first C, which is creation. And we know from Genesis that God created

Adam, okay? So it talks about God breathing into him the breath of life, and man became a living being, and then

God created Eve. So she made him from a rib from Adam's, made her, sorry, from a rib from Adam's side.

So those were the only two people that God created there in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve. And he told them to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth because they were the only two people, right?

So they have to fill the entire earth. Now, when you ask people, well, who are Adam and Eve's children? They typically will say, well,

Cain, Abel, and Seth. And I always say, well, those are the only three named children in Scripture. There are other children because in Genesis 5 -4, it says, after he begot

Seth, the days of Adam were 800 years, and he had sons and daughters. Now, we don't know exactly how many children

Adam and Eve had because the Bible doesn't tell us, but according to Jewish tradition and then Jewish historian

Josephus, they held that they had 33 sons and 23 daughters. Now, you might be thinking, whoa, that's 56 kids.

How is that possible? But let's consider two things here. One is that Adam lived to be 930 years old.

Okay, we know that according to Scripture. So if Eve lived to be of similar age, it's reasonable to think that their reproductive spans were a lot longer than what we have today.

They might have been a couple hundred years. And they did have the task of filling the earth, right? So in order to follow

God's commands, they had to have lots of children. And even today, when you think about it, we have women and men living, women that have given birth to 19 living children, right?

So if they can accomplish that in, say, 20 or 30 years with 19 kids, imagine how many you could have in a couple hundred years, right?

Or even 100 years. That would be quite a few children. So it's very reasonable when you really think about it.

Now, when people understand that Adam and Eve were the only two people that God created to fill the earth, the next question that typically pops into people's mind is, well, all right, well, who did

Cain marry? Or where did Cain get his wife? Now, we could ask that question of any of the children, but people specifically ask about Cain because of this passage in Genesis 4.

Now, this is after he killed Abel. And it says, then Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.

Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. Now, a lot of times I'll hear people say, well, he went to the land of Nod and got a wife.

And I say, no, that's not what the passage says. The passage says he went to the land of Nod and knew his wife.

And that's biblical speak for he had sexual relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son, all right?

So if we're going to answer this question, who did Cain marry, we really only have two possibilities.

He either married his sister or he married his niece. Now, when you say that, people might give you kind of a shocked expression, right?

Can you marry your relative? Yes, no, probably only after counseling. Why would you want to, right?

And so they're kind of shocked by the answer of a sister or a niece. Because in our modern day, we would say, well, that's wrong.

That's incest, right? You cannot marry a close relative. But we have to remember that, yes, that's true today.

And we're going to talk about why that's true. There's a biblical reason for that. But it wasn't true 6 ,000 years ago, all right?

When Adam and Eve were giving birth to these children, and they had nobody else to marry, God did not actually forbid close relative marriage until the time of Moses, all right?

Abraham married a half -sister, for example. So it was okay up until that time. And the reason that God forbid it, and the reason that we forbid it today is due to genetic disorders that can occur when close relatives marry.

So close relatives tend to have the same mutations in their DNA. And so two copies of that mutation tends to lead to genetic diseases or disorders.

So let's go through a little bit of a timeline here to help you understand this a bit more. So Adam and Eve, when they're first created, they're absolutely perfect, right?

No mutations in their DNA, no problems anywhere in that sense. But then they sin, right?

And we have the curse. And so that affects everything. So now mutations are going to start occurring, and they're going to increase with time.

But close intermarriage is really normal for about 2 ,500 years until the time of Leviticus.

And specifically in Leviticus 18, God now forbids close intermarriage. Now, the Israelites didn't know anything about DNA, but God did.

And he knew that those mutations were accumulating, and close relatives marrying would end up with children that had disorders and disease.

And obviously, he didn't want that. And so he forbid it, and that's the same reason that we forbid it today.

But it took a while for that to take place. So it was okay up until that point. Now, why is it so important to believe that we all descend from Adam and Eve, answering this question of where did

Cain get his wife, right? Well, for that, we have to go to the New Testament. And we read in 1 Corinthians that, for as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.

Now, I want you to think about this. If there are people on this earth not descended from Adam and Eve, and Cain married someone other than a descendant of Adam and Eve, first of all, that would contradict the clear teaching of Scripture, right?

Because it's clear that he went to the land of Nod and knew his wife, not got a wife, not that there's other people living there from who knows where, and somehow he married one of them.

But also, this is an issue as it relates to the gospel, right? Because it says here in 1 Corinthians that, in Adam all die, and last time

I checked, all humans died. Also, we read in 1 Timothy, he desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

So, think about this. How can the gospel be for all people if there are races other than Adam's race, right?

So, the answer to the question of race is vital to the gospel itself. Why preach the gospel to all nations if some of these people have no opportunities for salvation because they're not descendant from Adam, which is who

Christ died for, right? What does that mean for the Great Commission in Matthew 28? Because Jesus instructs his disciples to make disciples of all nations.

He doesn't say just some nations. He says all nations. So, the reason that all humans are sinners, the reason that all humans die is because all humans are descendant from Adam, and that is the reason that all humans need

Christ, who died for humans, right? He died for Adam's race. So, the understanding of race is vital to the gospel, and it's reiterated all throughout scripture, right?

He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth. So, if we're all one race, then why does everybody look different, right?

Where do these different ethnicities, or as we like to call them, people groups, come from? Not different races, because we all come from Adam and Eve.

We're the human race, but where do these different ethnicities and people groups come from? Well, the biblical basis for understanding this comes from the first 11 chapters of Genesis.

So, let's take a look at some of the major events that happen here so that we can get a better overall picture. So, we've talked about creation,

Adam and Eve, and the only two people that God created. They had sons and daughters, but before Eve could conceive her first child, and that had to happen, right?

Because in Adam, we all die, right? That means everyone, not just some people. Something happened, right, before she could conceive that first child, and that is the second

C, which is corruption. And we know from scripture that Adam and Eve disobeyed God, that they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

They sinned, and because we all descend from Adam and Eve, we all sin, and we all fall short of the glory of God, Romans 3 23.

And in fact, as Adam and Eve's descendants grew and multiplied and filled the earth, things got really bad, which brings us to the next

C, which is catastrophe, all right? So, the Bible tells us that man's thoughts were only evil continually, according to Genesis 6 5.

And so, God destroyed every human and every air -breathing, land -dwelling animal in a global catastrophic flood, except those that were aboard the ark, which was

Noah and his family and the representatives of the different animal kinds. Now, about a hundred years after the flood, we arrive at the fourth

C, which is confusion. Now, I often say people are confused about confusion, and that's because it really isn't talked about, sadly, in many churches today, and yet it's absolutely vital to this issue of race.

I've had people come up to me after I give a presentation similar to this one, and they'll say, how come I've never heard this before? I mean,

I've been in the church for decades, sometimes 60 years, I've heard people say, and I've never heard this. And I say, sadly, it's because many

Christian pastors and Christian leaders, I think, fall into one of two categories. Either they don't believe that Genesis presents true history, so they aren't going to talk about it, at least in a sense of it being actual truth and actual history and things that happened, so they're not going to talk about this event then, or it's a myth, it's not something that really occurred.

Or secondly, they've decided, well, this issue is very divisive, and even though they might believe that Genesis presents true history, some people in their congregation don't, and so they don't want an up for it, and so they don't talk about it.

But yet, Genesis is foundational to this issue of race and racism, so we have to talk about it, we need to talk about it, and we need to understand what happened here.

So after the flood, Noah and his family are actually given a command very similar to the one given to Adam and Eve. They're told to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Now, they were fruitful, and they did multiply, so we have the three sons of Noah and their wives, and then they have children, and they have children, and they have children.

In 100 years, you can get a lot of people, especially if they're very fertile, right? They don't have a lot of mutations built up in their

DNA yet, this is very easy to do, but their descendants didn't decide to stay in one place, right?

They decided not to fill the earth, and in fact, we read in Genesis 11 -4, it says, and they said, come let us put ourselves a city in a tower whose top is in the heavens.

Let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth. So they rebel against God, and this is a diorama that we have at the

Ark Encounter that depicts what the people building the tower may have looked like, okay? So they're building this tower, they're all in one place, they're staying together, so what did

God do to punish their rebellion? It says, therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth, and from there the

Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth. So they, he confuses their languages, right?

And so it's kind of hard to have major construction projects if you can't understand what the person beside you is saying. So they weren't able to communicate anymore, so they stopped building the tower, and they scattered, and this may be where we get our word

Babel from, right? When we talk about people that are babbling. Now, nowadays we would say it's not an actual language, right?

They're just saying nonsensical things, but back then they were legitimate languages that, different languages that the people were speaking.

So they were all in one place, but now they're scattered, and members of the same family probably would have had the same language.

You think mother, father, children, but more distant relations would be considered different families, so they would have different languages, and people with different languages end up in different locations, and as the family has left the

Tower of Babel, not only do they take this language with them, but they also take with them a particular genetic makeup with their

DNA, right? For characteristics like skin shade, and eye shape, and things like that. So what they end up doing is forming tiny little gene pools basically all over the world, okay?

Because back then, first of all, you don't have Google Translate, so you can't understand what other people are saying, right?

And secondly, we don't, they don't have global travel like we do today. It's not easy to go from point A to point B, so people in Africa probably aren't going to be marrying people in Australia, or people in North America aren't going to be marrying people in Europe, right?

Because they're just, there's too much distance between them. And so, but they carry with them certain characteristics, and as they intermarry within these small groups, which isn't a problem at this point, right?

Because we don't have the mutation filled up yet too much, and so those characteristics, which is encoded by their

DNA, become dominant through this intermarriage. So eventually, you have things like lighter skin, or fairer skin in Europe, you have darker skin in Africa, you have almond -shaped eyes in Asia, and there's likely some other factors that would have affected this as well, but mainly it comes from the genetic diversity that they take with them, right?

That genetic information that they take with them. But it's just variations on the same traits that Adam and Eve originally had.

So let me use a baking analogy to explain this. Every baker knows that a cake recipe is basically the same, no matter what kind of cake you're making.

There are certain elements you're going to have, like flour, some kind of sweetener, some kind of rising agent, eggs, that's pretty common for all cakes.

But you can make a lot of different cakes from that, because you can have different flavoring, different coloring, different pans, different icing, different decoration, and the same is true for kind of Adam and Eve and the variety from them, right?

They're the original recipe, so to speak, the original DNA recipe, and everybody today is just very slight variations on them.

So let me use the example of skin shade to illustrate this, because all the things that tend to separate people of different people groups, it tends to be skin shade.

So let's say we have two genes that code for skin color. Now, reality is that it's a lot more complex than this.

I can speak to that as a geneticist. We know there's at least 16 genes involved in skin shade determination, but the principle is the same.

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about two genes or you're talking about 16 genes. So let's say the uppercase A or B version of the gene results in lots of melanin, and melanin is the pigment that gives the shade of brown to our skin, and that the lowercase

A or B version of the gene results in a small amount of melanin, okay? So depending on what versions of the genes you inherit from your parents, you could have very dark skin, you could have very light skin, or you could have a lot of skins in between, okay?

So especially if you have two parents that are somewhere in the middle, so to speak, like if they start out with that middle brown where they have a lot of variety in their genetic makeup, if two of those people marry, that's the kind of punnett square that you get there.

You would have some people that are very, some children are very dark, some children are very light, but the vast majority are just right in between.

So to get all the skin shades that we see in the world today, then what shade, not color, would that eliminate skin?

Because let's face it, we're all brown, right? So if I held up, people would say I'm white, right? But if I held up a white sheet of paper next to me and I'm the same color as the paper, somebody needs to call an ambulance, okay?

Because something is wrong, right? I may not be a very dark brown, but I am still a very light brown.

So to get all this variety that we see in the world today, what shade of skin did Adam and Eve have?

Well, probably they had something in the middle. They probably had middle brown because they would have a variety of genes for both light and dark shades of skin.

And that's the variety that we observed today, right? So they would have had now, if they did have 56 kids, it would have been interesting because they would have probably seen some children that were very dark, very few.

Some children that were very light, very few. But the vast majority, just statistically speaking, would be somewhere in between and would be in the middle.

Yeah, I can't tell you how many times I will open up a children's book that talks about Adam and Eve and they are shown as blonde haired and blue eyed, okay?

Caucasian Adam and Eve. But that's only going to give you more of the same. And same is true if Adam and Eve were portrayed as very dark.

You would just get more of the same because these individuals lack genetic variety, okay?

You can't get other skin shades if they don't have genetic variety to begin with. But if you do start somewhere in the middle, right?

With that middle brown and have that variety in the genes, you can get a lot of those different skin shades.

And we don't even have to go back to the time of Adam and Eve to see this. We can actually see this even in people today. So for example, this couple that you see on the screen, they are both middle brown.

And so she gave birth to these twin girls. They are fraternal twin. Now they look very different, but they're fraternal twins.

One child got a lot of genes for that code for lots of melanin and one child got a lot of genes that don't code for a lot of melanin.

And this is how these girls look today. They've grown up. Now they look very different, but yet they actually are fraternal twins.

Here's another example of that. You have a very light mom in this case, a very dark dad. But they ended up forming two sets of what are called black, white twins.

Now they're technically not black and white, right? We already discussed that. They're dark brown and light brown, but nonetheless, you can see that you can get a lot of variety from two people when you have, when they have variety and their genetic makeup, or you have a mixture coming from one dark parent and one light parent.

Now, probably many of you are familiar with the children's Sunday school song, Jesus loves the little children. And it says all the children of the world, red and yellow, black and white.

But are we really red, yellow, black, and white? No, we're not. So we really need to change that song.

We are shades of brown from dark to light. And we want to raise a generation of children on this new version.

We want to help them not see people as different races, right?

But instead as different people, groups, different ethnicities, and that we're all brown, right? We're just different shades of brown.

So even that can't separate us. I really like that the fact that the Crayola company has actually recently embraced this fact with their new set of crayons called

Colors of the World. And basically what this is, is a box of brown crayons. Now, you might not think that's exciting, but I do.

Okay, I think that's amazing. Because these crayons represent the different shades of brown that people are.

There's no red, yellow, black, and white in this crayon box, right? Because that's not what people are, right? They're just different shades of brown.

So the first four C's really provide us with an understanding of the fact that we are one race, but multiple people groups.

And people group is a much more accurate and appropriate term than race. And this understanding is absolutely central to the gospel, right?

Because who did Jesus die for? He died for the one man's offense, which is Adam. He died for Adam's race.

And that's why I preach the gospel to all nations, because we've all descended from Adam. All of us are sinners and all of us are in need of the salvation through Christ so that we can have access to eternal life.

And so that history that's in Genesis is really foundational to the last three C's of Christ, cross, and consummation, which involve the gospel message, right?

And the future that's to come that we can share and be with Jesus if we know him as our personal savior.

So how do we practically apply the biblical knowledge that we've learned here? And I hope we can think of multiple ways, especially as it concerns our relationships and treatment of others who might look different from ourselves.

But one that comes immediately to my mind is the idea of interracial marriage. So here's the thing, if we're all one race, is there any such thing as interracial marriage?

The answer is no, okay? There just isn't. We're all one race, the human race, descended from Adam and Eve.

So you know how when you get those things that you have to fill out and they ask you, what race are you? Okay, I always want to say the human race, right?

I'm Adam's race. But what they're really asking is, what ethnicity are you, right?

And that can be important because there are certain diseases that tend to run in some ethnicities more than others.

And so people need to, doctors need to know that, I get that. But we are the human race. So there can be no such thing as interracial marriage.

Now it's not to say that couples shouldn't take into account differences in themselves, like culture, likes, dislikes, how many children they want to have, where they want to live, right?

Because you are making a decision to spend a lifetime together. But there's nothing in the Bible that would prevent people from different people groups marrying each other.

There's no prohibitions against that. But there is a type of interracial marriage that the Bible does not condone.

And that's this one in second Corinthians. It says, do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.

What fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness, and what communion has light with darkness? And that's the marriage between the two different spiritual races.

Because which impending marriage does God counsel against? Two non -Christians marrying, two Christians marrying, or a non -Christian marrying a

Christian? It's that last one, right? It doesn't matter the skin shade, right? What really is important is whether or not they're a

Christian. Because while it is a biological fact that all humans belong to one race, it is a spiritual fact that they're divided into two.

And so what is the difference between these two spiritual races? It's the direction in which they are racing, okay?

And God wants both those people in a marriage, what he desires the most is that they be racing towards him, right?

It's really hard if they're racing in different directions. So if the Bible teaches, not just one example, right?

There are obviously many, many more ways that we need to apply what we've learned here to how we treat others, how we look at others, and how we interact with others.

But if the Bible teaches there's only one race, then why do we have so many problems with this race issue in our culture today?

And the bottom line is because we live in a sinful, fallen world, right? And people start with their own ideas and their own reasoning apart from God's word.

So the common teaching actually is that there are four main racial groups all evolved from an evolutionary ancestors, okay?

And so we've got things like, and these are the terms they use, Negroid, Mongoloid, Australioid, and Conkazoid.

And that's how they used to label them and said, you know, they came from either one or multiple evolutionary ancestors.

Now, how did this concept become so popular? Well, the late evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould said this, biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1859, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory.

So Darwin really provided a quote unquote scientific, and we'll see how it's not very scientific later, basis for this belief and the concept of multiple races expanded and grew from it, right?

So many of Darwin's writings clearly show his beliefs that different races of people descended from ape -like ancestors, and that some were more highly evolved than others.

The name of his first book on this issue was on the origin of species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life.

Now, the term racist here could be replaced with species because this book focused only on animals and not humans.

But the logical progression of his idea of evolution would be man next, right? And that he basically made clear in his next book on this issue called

Distant of Man in 1871. And he said this, at some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world.

So for Darwin and many of his contemporaries, the European white or the civilized races and the savages would be

Australian aborigines and the negroids. That's what they would think. Now, Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton, actually used these evolutionary ideas as a foundation for eugenics, okay?

Eugenics means well -born or good in birth. And he said this, eugenics is the science which deals with all influences that improve the inborn qualities of a race, also with those that develop them to the utmost advantage.

Now, notice he says inborn quality. So in other words, he's saying, keep the race pure, right?

Especially the European white. He said this, speaking of eugenics, takes cognizance of all influences that tend and however remote a degree to give to the more suitable races or strains of blood, a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable than they otherwise would have had.

And so again, for Galton and for Darwin, the European whites would be the more suitable race and everyone else was basically less suitable.

Galton said, could not the undesirables be got rid of and the desirables multiplied? And undesirables would be people other than European white.

Now, he is considered the father of eugenics, Galton is, and he promoted the idea that man could evolve into something better and higher if he just could control, took control of marriage and reproduction.

So only the fit marry and reproduce, which in their minds would be the Caucasians and the people that were not defective or had disease and that the unfit would not.

And this was accomplished in the late 1800s and the early 1900s through avenues like involuntary sterilization and marriage restriction law.

So every state that you see here with lines or in black had sterilization laws in 1935.

And these sterilization laws in some states continued until 1970. And who were they sterilizing?

Okay, so they were sterilizing without their permission, sometimes without them even knowing, knowing this, and, you know, against their will sometimes, those people that they considered unfit, which included those that were diseased, defective, and those of what they would call lower races, like African Americans.

They had marriage restriction laws. And most of us think about, well, they prohibited interracial marriage, that was one thing they did.

But they also didn't want people that were pure and abnormal, okay, marrying either, they didn't want defective people marrying.

This is a chart from the 1920s showing marriages of fit and unfit with outcomes, again, of pure and abnormal union.

And again, who was abnormal? Well, anyone that was diseased, defective, and those of lower races.

And Darwin affirmed his cousin's horrific eugenic ideas further and the descent of man when he said this, that's the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind.

No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals would doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man.

It is surprising how soon a want of care or care wrongly directed leads to the degeneration of a domestic race.

But accepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

That is awful, right? When you think about that and the implications about that, but it's truthful, this is what he said.

And you know, if people are going to tear down statues and cancel people who were racist, then honestly, they should have started with Darwin.

Because it was his so -called scientific principles that provided a foundation for racism. And the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, very much agreed with these ideas, okay?

And in her magazine, The Woman Rebel, she published an article in 1914. And the author of the article said this, it is generally agreed that lower forms of life must give place to higher types, right?

And when the pioneer of civilization makes his way into the forest, he must have necessarily destroyed the man -killing animals living therein.

Exterminating warfare is also waged against the savage members of the human race, wherever they oppose the establishment and conditions necessary for the development of the more highly organized types.

So basically, what he's saying is just like we do with savage animals, we need to do with man, right? We need to exterminate the savage races, which again would be what they would call the

Negroes or the Australian Aborigines and pretty much anyone who wasn't European white, okay?

That's who they wanted to exterminate to allow the European whites basically to take over and be able to establish themselves in certain areas.

And the author went on to say, of course, where improvement by instruction and subsequent cooperation is possible, this extreme of annihilation need not be practiced.

But unless it can be shown that there's room enough on earth for both savage and civilized, the savage must go.

Okay, so again, well, you know, if we can instruct them and cooperate with them and get along with them, that's okay.

We don't need to annihilate them. But if that can't be done, then we just need to get rid of them. There isn't room on planet earth for both of us.

That's what they're saying. Now, remember, Margaret Sanger published this in her magazine and many, many other articles in her subsequent magazines by leading eugenicists of the time that said we need to get rid of the undesirable and propagate the desirables.

And these ideas, you know, continue in the Planned Parenthood organization that she founded even in modern times.

Listen to some of these sobering stats. In America's largest city, that's New York City, a black baby is more likely to be aborted than born alive each year, right?

So between 2012 and 2016, black mothers terminated 136 ,000 plus pregnancies.

At the same time, black mothers gave birth to 118 ,000 babies, right?

And think about where Planned Parenthood offices are typically found. They're in areas with high numbers of African Americans and Hispanics.

It continues today. Nothing has changed, right? Maybe the name and how they do it has changed a little bit, but the ideas are still very much the same as what they started with.

But there's no absolute, there's absolutely no biblical, as we've already seen, basis for the idea of multiple races and racism.

And there's no scientific basis for it either, right? Advances in science, especially

DNA sequencing, has confirmed the biblical truth of one race. Okay. So Dr.

Venter, who was involved in sequencing the human genome, when they had done this, and other scientists at the

NIH, they put together a draft of the entire sequence of the human genome, and they unanimously declared there's only one race, the human race.

Did you know that if you look at any two humans, regardless of their ethnicity, they only differ by 0 .1

% in their DNA, 0 .1. That's pretty amazing. And if you ask what percentage of your genes is reflected in your external appearance, so things that we would say lead to the idea of different ethnicity, the basis by which we talk about race, the answer seems to be in the range of 0 .01%.

Okay, so it's a very, very tiny part of the DNA that even leads to those differences. And I think slowly but surely, modern scientists are beginning to change their views on this and realize, especially in the genetic era that we live in, that there is only one race.

In this article, they said the genes that explain the phenotypic differences, and that would be things on the outside, only represent a tiny part of our genome, confirming once again, that the concept of race from a genetic standpoint has been abolished.

National Geographic had this as a special issue in 2018. And one of the things that they said in there, again, talking about this idea that there are not separate races, there is only one race, they talked about Craig Venter and the work he had done in sequencing the human genome and said, the concept of race has no genetic or scientific basis.

And so we need to remember that, and we need to take that term races, and we need to throw it in the trash can, because there are not multiple races, there is only one race, the human race.

And we as Christians, especially need to help people understand this, because only when we start with God's Word, right, do we have a basis and understanding for that.

And we can show people too, how science supports and confirms what God's Word says. Now, I want to hope you know about a few of the resources that we have at Answers in Genesis to help you delve a little more deeply into this, okay?

There's no way for me to cover all of this in a half an hour. And so I want to help you know some of those resources. One Race, One Blood is an excellent book by Ken Ham and his friend,

Dr. Charles Ware. He's an African American man dealing with this issue from both a biblical standpoint, as well as a scientific standpoint, and helping us understand this issue more deeply.

We also have a small booklet called The Biblical Answer to Racism. So a great thing to give people to get them thinking about these issues and talking about these.

The Tower of Babel is another, is a great DVD on this particular issue, looking at by Bode Hodge about what happened, where did all these people go when they scattered from the

Tower of Babel? And he is really an expert in this area. And he also has a book by the same name on that topic.

And that'll really give you a lot of really great detailed information about that. We also have a book for this issue, on this issue for kids, right?

One Blood for Kids, what the Bible says about race. And we really want to help kids to be able to understand this issue as well.

Let's raise a generation of children that are not racist, that don't see these differences, right?

I mean, they see that there are differences, but they understand that we are one race. And we have a board book too for even younger children to help them understand that called

All God's Children. Also, if you'd like to find out more about eugenics and abortion and Planned Parenthood and how all of that's connected,

I do have a DVD called Eugenics, Abortion, and Genetics in our Sanctity of Life box set.

You can also buy the DVD individually that gives you a lot more information on that.

Well, I am out of time today. And I want to thank you for having me at this conference and being able to share on this very, very important issue.

And I hope that you'll find this information useful. And again, if you want to find out more information on any of these resources, or this particular topic, please check out answersandgenesis .org.