Why did God create the different races?

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wiggbuggie1 said:
no such thing as different races we are all one race human race also we are able to procreate and have children together
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Is this something they teach in the American schools? It has to be something peculiar to the USA. Possibly a reaction against the racism in America? I don’t know anybody in England or Europe who says the races don’t exist. I’ve spoken to Bulgarians and Ukrainians who are very race conscious. They’d laugh at the suggestion that there’s only one race.
 
are not Asians, African, Caucasians homosapiens? and the fact that we can procreate with each other?
 
In spite of the differences between the races, we are still the same species.

Cats and dogs are different species as they can’t mate with each other and produce fertile offspring. Horses and donkeys can mate with each other but produce infertile offspring. Think of the races as different breeds of dogs. However the amount of genetic variability is much more in dogs than in people.

There is much more genetic variability between dogs than chimpanzees and a more genetic variance in a single troop of chimpanzees than between humans all over the world. Genetic difference is minuscule between humans compared to chimpanzees and even more minuscule than dogs.

A Norwegian and a Thai can have fertile offspring since they are of the same species.

This is why you saw Prince Harry marry Megan Markle since they are both humans. Later on they may be parents and in time grandparents.
 
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God didnt create races.

“Race” is a worldly label.

God only created Man.
 
God created races* and ethnicities, not by directly forming each of them, but by designing human nature such that they would form through the ordinary course of things. This is the same way that He created the family, the state, and every other reality of human society that derives from nature.

As demonstrated by the Tower of Babel incident, God did not wish for their to be only one human society, but rather for there to be a multitude of peoples. To this end, he allowed the development of racial and ethnic differences, both so that each people might be uniquely suited to its homeland, but also so that each people would have the common bond arising from their shared characteristics.

*One could speculate, I suppose, that God created the races (i.e. major haplogroups) by direct intervention after the Tower of Babel. In any case, it is clear that ethnic and racial differentiation in general occurs naturally.
 
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Not so, there are real biological differences (obviously, none that rise to the level of being a different species 🙂), for instance, different races are more prone to different disease states.
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Indeed. There also seems to be different abilities; for example, East Africans dominate long-distance running. Science has proven that these runners have superior genetics for running.
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Neither of these types of differences rise to the level of needing to have a system whereby we divide people into “races.” For example, both the Masai and the Pygmies are considered to be of the same “race,” but they are more different from each other than the “average” African-American is from a European-American.

God created people, that’s it. And He gave us lots of genetic diversity. Why should we take some few of those genetic differences and make a big deal out of them?
 
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For example, both the Masai and the Pygmies are considered to be of the same “race,” but they are more different from each other than the “average” African-American is from a European-American.
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If this is a claim about height then it’s true. If it’s about genetics then I’ll need to see a source.

The Masai and the Pygmies differ drastically in physical characteristics, but they almost certainly are much closer, common ancestry wise, than either is to any European group.
 
The idea of “race” arose before we knew about DNA or all that much about genetics, so clearly I am talking about their height and other physical characteristics.
 
We knew about common ancestry, which is what defines race.

Phenotype doesn’t define race. There are Albino Africans who are whiter than I am, but they are still Africans. Likewise, the short stature of Pygmies doesn’t make them a separate race from other Africans.
 
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The idea of “race” arose before we knew about DNA or all that much about genetics, so clearly I am talking about their height and other physical characteristics.
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OK, but the more we learn about human genetics and psychology and about anthropology generally, the more evidence there is that the idea of race is largely imaginary. We are made so that a certain population, if isolated with more or less constant environmental pressures, will eventually have a higher prevalence of certain physical characteristics, yes. Those characteristics, however, will be indicative of essentially nothing else that we humans will attribute to the population in question. (We are a creature with a pattern-identification system that is in perpetual overdrive, particularly the what-is-Us-and-what-is-Them system.)
 
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The God has not made different races. It is human beings who have given the birth to different races.
 
When the question starts with “why did God…” we must always remember that a perfectly acceptable answer in most cases is “I don’t know.” Only the evil one leads us to believe we ought to know the mind of God.
 
I don’t know if this has been said before, but the concept of race came long before we understood genetic sciences, and it has more to do with skin color and physionomy. Later the scientist misunderstood the definition of race and when it was discovered that we share 99% of human genome, they thought the idea of race was refuted. Then to rectify they developed the fancy word “ethnicity” which means the same but sounds less ofensive. It’s all part of the myth that aknowledging the existance of races is racist, while in reality racism is to think one race is superior to another
 
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God guided Evolution.

People changed physically to survive different world climates and conditions and diets.
 
I am a catholic☺️ not a darwinite,
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Also: it was in the newspapers a few years ago, that Darwin (or whatever guy used ancient skulls to show that apes evolved into humans, faked the skulls, he made some of them himself out of plastar of paris. So human beings did not come from apes. Suddenly at one stage in history humans were on the earth. Also: the apes are still apes and have not become humans, so that theory is out, animals remain animals, we have not had a movie version in reality of ‘Rise of the Apes’ in the last 3,000 years.
 
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That is so very much not how evolution works.

I’m sure some folks have faked remains (the infamous Piltdown Man, for one), but that does not refute the genetic similarity of humans to other primates.

Nor does the continued existence of apes somehow refute the idea of humanity arising from that branch of the genetic tree. The claim is not that (some) modern apes turned into humans, but that both humans and modern apes have a common ancestor that was neither.
 
He faked two to three of the skulls.

His theory of human evolution from apes is debunked.

Humans evolved from earlier versions of human being.

But we were not apes.

Apes have been here just as long and do not speak/ use technology/ sin
 
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