Transcript: Episode 0015

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Welcome to the Stone Choir Podcast.

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I am Corey J. Moller.

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And I'm Woe.

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Today we are going to be discussing a subject that we have mentioned numerous times in previous

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episodes.

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That is race.

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This week's episode and next week's episode will both be specifically about the subject

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of race.

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Now before you delete this episode and fast forward and just say I don't want to hear

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that crap, I'd like to give a preamble and a plea to those who are listening to please

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bear with us before you decide that this is something that's just taxing on your mind

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and you don't want to hear it.

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It's understandable.

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If that was your first response, if you heard me say race and you're like, I'm out of

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here.

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I don't want to hear any of this stuff.

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There are basically three groups of people that you have ever heard discussing race in

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your life.

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First are the atheists.

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They're the scientists.

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They're the evolutionists who unfortunately have most of the data about these things, about

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the scientific.

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And again, as we've mentioned in the past, scientific means it's Gantia from Latin knowledge.

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Science is not simply about hypothesizing.

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It's not about theories.

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Science is fundamentally about facts.

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And while the atheist evolutionists, scientists who deal with the subject of race specifically

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in terms of genetics often have theories that are contrary to scripture, that doesn't

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mean that the underlying data is false.

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And so today we're going to be discussing the underlying data and we're going to present

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our own conclusions from that data that is consistent with scripture.

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So that's the reason you haven't heard this before.

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You haven't heard someone who's going to engage with the facts and then willing to look

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at scripture and see where they fit together.

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Because what a scientist discovers in a lab by looking at DNA is a real thing.

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It's actually true.

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And if they have evolutionary givens that cause them to apply false theories to reach incorrect

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conclusions, that doesn't mean that the data is bad.

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It means that their conclusions are bad.

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So we're going to discuss the data in our own terms and it's not that far from what

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they're saying, but it's probably pretty far from what you've heard before.

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So that's group one, the evolutionists.

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Group two that you've heard before are basically the Marxists, people who will not really let

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you pin them down on what race actually means.

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They'll just tell you that they'll basically use it as a weapon.

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They're going to swing some aspect of race or racism or whatever they're talking about

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specifically as a political cudgel within a conversation to demean one group or to elevate

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another group or to set true to groups against each other politically.

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And it's a huge turn off.

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It's incredibly aggravating.

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You've probably been on the receiving end of some of those lies.

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And so when you hear race, you think, I'm sick of this crap.

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I don't want to hear it anymore.

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That's not us.

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We're not evolutionists.

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We're not Marxists.

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We're not using this as a cudgel.

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And the third group is, frankly, probably the group that you were in as a Christian who

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I'm going to call you naive, but it's not meant to be demeaning.

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You're insulting.

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You've never looked at this stuff.

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You don't care.

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You don't think it applies to your life.

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And so you haven't delved deeply into the fact that underlie the history of the subject.

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The reason that that's a problem is that when a Christian ignores the facts related

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to race, as a Christian, you're going to then simply turn to

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the scripture.

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And so it's very easy for Christians who ignore the facts, look at scripture to reach

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and correct conclusions that sound scriptural, but they're nonsense.

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And we're doing this episode specifically to try to get people over the hurdle of saying

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things like one race, the human race.

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As though that precludes the possibility that there are subdivisions among humans.

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To say that that doesn't exist is to contradict scripture.

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And so this episode is actually going to be broken into two parts.

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Today, this first episode on race is specifically going to deal with the scientific basis.

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It's going to be an episode that's a little bit unusual from some of the others and that

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we don't talk much about scripture, but we're going to talk a fair amount about Genesis,

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particularly Genesis 1 through Genesis 11.

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So from the creation through the Tower of Babel, and then we'll extrapolate a little bit

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from then more into recorded human history as we get records from elsewhere in archeological

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evidence.

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But we're not going to rely very heavily on scripture.

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And in particular, we're not going to address any of the satirological disputes of the notions

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of race, of the claim of race, of the fact of race.

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So if as we're going along, you have in mind Galatians 3.28, which said that there's neither

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Jew nor Greek, there's neither slave, nor free.

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There is no male and female for all in one in Christ Jesus.

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I'm going to ask you for the sake of argument to simply set that aside.

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We're going to address it in the second episode.

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We're going to address it in detail.

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That could be an episode all by itself.

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We could do multiple episodes just on Galatians 3.28.

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We're not going to address it today.

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So if as we go along, you find yourself shouting at your phone or whatever, there's neither

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Jew nor Greek, we're going to get to that.

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That's not remotely what that passage means.

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It's not a refutation of what we're saying in this episode.

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So that's basically just a preamble as a plea to hear the whole thing out before you

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decide that we fall into one of the first two buckets of either the evolutionists or

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the Marxists, which is what some people online, particularly a number of pastors have accused

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us of, mainly to discredit us and say that we're hateful and we're not Christian at all.

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Cory and I fall into a fourth group.

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Men that have looked at this stuff have studied it because we see that the world cares.

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We see that Satan cares.

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You as a Christian may not think their race has anything to do with your life or with salvation

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or with how God operates in the world, Satan feels differently.

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And you can tell that even right this moment before you've heard anything else we have

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to say in any of our arguments, you can tell the Satan cares because you can't get away

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from this damn subject.

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That tells you that Satan has a skin in the game when it comes to the subject of race.

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Now the hurdle that we're hoping to get people over is the idea that talking about it

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at all is evil.

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We obviously don't believe that or we would be talking about it.

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If we believe that we were saying something evil, you know, if we were Christians we would

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shut our mouths.

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We wouldn't say it.

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So I simply ask for you to bear with us for this episode and the next episode.

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And if at the end of that you find that we have been evolutionists and Marxists all along,

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that's fine.

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You can reach that conclusion.

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Just hear our argument first.

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So with that out of the way, we're going to begin with, as I mentioned, the first fundamental

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misconception that is widely applied among Christians.

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And that is that there is one race, the human race.

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And so the argument that we often hear from Christians when it comes to race as stated

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as one race, the human race.

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And the underlying argument for that is that because we are all ultimately descended from

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Adam, we are all of the race of Adam.

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The problem with that statement is that it is both true and false.

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It is true because the speak of men as the race of Adam is accurate.

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But to then conclude from that, that all men are of the same race is to equivocate with

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regard to the term race.

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Race can refer to various levels in the hierarchy in the ancestry of a particular life form.

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And so for instance, a good example would be you can speak of the race of dogs, usually

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for dogs.

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Yes, we call them breed instead, but it's the same thing, same concept here.

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If you speak of the breed of golden retriever, you are speaking of something more specific

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than just dog.

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They're all dogs.

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So a golden retriever, a pomeranian, a rot-viler, these are all dogs.

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But they are different breeds of dog.

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The same for humans, you can speak of the race of Adam, human beings as being one species,

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because we are in fact one species by any reasonable definition of that term, all of humanity, one

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species, the race of Adam.

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But we have over time, according to God's good ordering of creation, become separate

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races distinct from each other.

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Because as we moved, we adapted to the areas where we started to live.

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God designed it that way.

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It's very clear, He gave us the order, be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue

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it.

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That was what we were supposed to do.

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Different groups moved to different areas.

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And so as that happened, you have the creation of the different races as they exist today.

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Now of course, the real genesis of this is in Genesis, is right after the flood.

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And the reason we have a real break there is because you have obviously, from Adam and

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Eve, up into the time of the flood.

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You have man proliferating over the face of the earth, there are various genetic differences

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over time.

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We don't know as much about the anti-deluvians as we do about those who've come after

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the flood, of course, that would be us in the latter category, but you have a bottleneck.

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And that bottleneck is Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives.

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We don't know the genealogy of their wives.

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Much of the genetic variation we see today probably came from the wives of Noah's sons,

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because obviously Noah's sons very closely genetically related.

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The wives, not necessarily so closely related.

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And they spread out after they got off the arc.

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The arc came to land in Mount Ararat, which our best guess is Eastern Turkey, or maybe

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a little over the border of Turkey, right in that area.

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And that bears out.

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If you look at the DNA of the various human groups, if you look at how related we are into

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whom we're related, you can see that we spread out from basically Turkey.

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The old out of Africa hypothesis was not wildly wrong.

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It was off by several thousand miles, because the arc came to land in roughly modern day

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Turkey.

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Europeans are descended from J-5th.

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J-5th moved north and west, filled Europe.

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Eventually some became sailors and also filled the southern end of the Mediterranean, which

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would be North Africa.

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The Shemites stayed in the Middle East and also moved eastward into what is today Asia,

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and the Hamites moved south through Egypt and then into Africa.

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Probably assumed that the Sahara was not quite as big at the time, so it was more passable.

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And that is how you end up with the modern racial groups.

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They spread out from Noah's Ark, descended from the three patriarchs, and so you have essentially

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three major groupings of human beings, major divisions of human races.

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Within that, yes, you have smaller divisions to go back again to the term of race and what

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it means going from the smallest up to the greatest.

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You could speak of the race of Germans.

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Then you could speak of the Germanic race, which would include the English and the Dutch

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and others.

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Then you could speak of the japhithic race, which would be Europeans, descended from J-5th.

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Then you could speak of either Noah or Adamic race, which would be all men.

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And so it's important to note how the term is being used and not to equivocate, not to

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conflate the different senses of this term, because that is often deliberately misleading,

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but in many cases for Christians, it is unintentionally misleading because there is a use of a term

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as if it were univocal when it is not.

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I think one of the toughest things that Christians have to face when looking seriously at the

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data about these matters is that, as I said, group one, the atheists and the evolutionists

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who do most of the research, who control most of the publication.

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Historically, they haven't lied about the data, although that's happening today just

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in the last five and ten years.

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There's more deliberate fudging of the data, specifically to accord with what Christians

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claim as their own morality to say one race, the human race.

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Today, the scientists are now saying the same thing, and they're altering their data to

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achieve that desired outcome when the data doesn't support it.

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So as you delve into this, it's a real challenge because you're forced to listen to people

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who are going to reach incorrect conclusions based on their faulty givens.

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And most people are not really equipped to sort the good from the bad.

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To look at data that itself is sound is solid, like for example, genetic data that bears

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out what Cori just said about three different racial groups that are present in genetic data.

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You can look at someone's genes and determine, based on statistical analysis, which of those

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major buckets they fall into.

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And in fact, with a reasonable probability, which of the smaller buckets they fall into,

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it's not 100% certain, but even when it's off by a bit, it's not going to be off by much.

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You're not going to look at the DNA of a German in Mistake him for a gonon.

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You will mistake him for a Frenchman.

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You could mistake him for an Englishman.

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You're probably not going to mistake him for a Bosnian.

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And again, you're not going to mistake him as Japanese, even at the genetic level.

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You have no idea where it came from.

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It's just it's a blood sample that from what you extracted DNA or epithelial wear, wherever

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you get your DNA sample, when you profile it, this stuff is present.

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And so you don't need to be a Christian to look at the data.

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And that's a hard part of this conversation because as I said, the evolutionary atheists

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who are crunching the numbers will then reach evolutionary atheist conclusions.

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And for a Christian, when you're looking at it, you're faced with sorting the true

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data from the false conclusions and the temptation is just to say, ah, this is all crap.

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Because what you're looking at is a scientist who will say that the universe is 14 billion

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years old, earth is four and a half billion years old.

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Life is a couple billion years old and you had proteins that somehow became cells and

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then a cell became a fish and then a fish became a monkey and a monkey became a man and

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a man became a race of men.

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And as a Christian, you know that almost all of that is nonsense.

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The earth is 6,000 years old and all the DNA in our bodies comes from Adam and comes

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from Noah in the wives of Noah's sons.

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That's a scriptural fact.

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It's also a scientific fact.

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What the scientists get wrong are the time frames that are involved.

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And so when you're looking at the raw data, you're going to find a bunch of erroneous

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conclusions.

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And I think that for a lot of people, we're doing this episode in the hope that you can

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at least take a basis for being able to understand these questions in a Christian fashion that

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is not at odds with the scientific facts.

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If at the end of this you just throw up your hands and say, I have no idea what's going

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on.

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I can't make heads or tails out of it.

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Honestly that's okay.

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Not everyone is equipped to be able to actually wrap their heads around this stuff.

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What I would say to you is that if you personally get to the end of what we're saying and say,

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I can't make heads or tails of it, that's fine, but you should in the future when you

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hear discussions of race refrain from participating.

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Because what you're saying is I don't know enough to even be able to reach conclusion.

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What we're trying to say is that there are conclusions that can be reached that are consistent

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with Scripture that are also consistent with the facts.

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Because guess what?

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That's what the truth means.

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The truth from God, the truth that is revealed in Scripture and the truth that is revealed

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in creation are all of one spirit.

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It's all the same thing.

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And the fact that there are scientists who are atheists who come along and butcher the

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facts of creation doesn't alter creation.

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It just means that they're telling lies about it.

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And so as we discuss this, it's important to tease those out.

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So as Corey said, everything became with Adam, began with Adam.

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All of the genes in every single human being today came from within Adam's body.

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Eve was created from Adam.

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We have no reason to believe that there is any portion of Eve that did not come directly

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from him.

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In fact, I would say it is arguably a heresy to say that there is a single cell in her

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body that was not derived from Adam.

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Now it's important to note when as we go down this path that when we're talking about

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inheritance and we're talking about relation, you get half of your DNA from your father and

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half of your DNA from your mother.

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What that implies is that half of your father's DNA is not inside you because the other half

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came from your mother.

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You have 46 chromosomes.

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You get 23 from each of them.

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As you go back generationally, you know, when you go back generations or powers of two,

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so one generation back means that 50, 50, that's one half.

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Two generations back is one quarter, so 25%.

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If you go back seven generations, you're less than one percent because two to the seventh

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is 128.

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So you're looking at one 128th of the available genetic data from your great, great, great,

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great grandfather in your own body.

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What that means is that there's a 50, 50 chance that you'll have a shot of having some

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of their DNA in you.

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Now this is important for two reasons.

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One, it's possible if you go back far enough that you may not have any of the specific genes

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from one of your own ancestors.

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This is very common.

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It's something that shows up when genetic analysis is being done.

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If you go back not too many generations, it's possible simply to lose the thread of

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relation, not because you're not related to them, but just that there were no specific

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genes coming from them.

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On the other hand, the second vital point is that all humans are approximately something

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like 99.2, 99.5% the same genetically.

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This is one of the arguments that's made for one race, the human race, saying all the

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genetic variation among various human groups is in that last half percent.

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The reason that's misleading is that chimpanzees are about 98.8% the same as human DNA, which

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is why the evolutionary scientists will say fish monkey man race because they see the similarity

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between the monkey and the man and say, well, clearly they came from the same place.

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It's Christians we know that's not the case.

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And even more ridiculously, dogs are 94%.

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Is it one race, the mammal race, cats are 90% and to give people an idea of how little

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DNA varies even across species, fruit flies are 60% the same as human beings.

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So it does not take a huge difference in order to, well, it doesn't take a huge difference

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genetically in order to have a significant difference phenotypically, which is the expression

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of course of the genotype.

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Yep.

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In fact, in some cases for humans, it can be as little as one base pair.

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Yes.

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What that tells us is that God likes patterns, He likes repetition.

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We see this everywhere in the universe.

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Galaxies all have similar structures.

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Galaxies all have different structures too, but there are variations on a theme.

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It's just like Beethoven or Bach, when they're writing their magnificent works, they will

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begin with a phrase and then they'll build it and they'll evolve it and they'll grow it

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into something magnificent and then they'll start all over again and they'll do the same

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sort of process and reach something that begins with the same basic theme, the same phrase,

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but it takes it in a very different direction.

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But you'll hear those same echoes throughout the entire piece.

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That's a reflection of what God does in creation.

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So the fact that monkeys are 98.8%, the same as humans, doesn't mean that we're related

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in the sense that we have a common ancestor.

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It means that we're related by the fact that we have the same creator and God created

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mammals in one sense and then He created lobsters and He created all these weird things

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to have all these varieties and variations.

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It's according to God's good creation and we can say that Chihuahua and a healer are

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subspecies, we're terrified to say that human races are subspecies.

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We completely preclude the idea of subspecies when talking about human beings.

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In part because of the implications, does it mean that an African somehow has a different

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degree of value than a European or an Asian?

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That's a moral question.

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And the answer before God is no, that's never going to be an argument.

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You're going to hear from either of us.

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Jesus died for all homo sapiens.

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Jesus died for every descendant of Adam.

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That's all of us.

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Regardless of any of these differences that we're talking about in these episodes, we will

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never make any argument that says, well, this man is different than from this man.

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Or God cares about this man and doesn't care about this man.

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That's absolutely the polar opposite of why we're talking about it in the first place.

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We're talking about it because Satan is using this as a wedge to divide Christ's church

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and to divide all of humanity in ways that are unnatural.

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Now there are natural divisions and that is what race is.

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Race is a natural division.

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As you look from Babel, what was the story of Babel?

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The people who all share the common language when they were told by God be fruitful and

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multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, they said, no, we're not going anywhere.

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We're going to build a tower that's going to be a monument to our own greatness.

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It's going to keep us together in this place and we will be as God.

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We will be magnificent and everyone will respect us for how unified we are.

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That is the spirit of this age.

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One race, the human race is the cry of Babel.

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God was so infuriated at the evil of Babel that he came down to earth and he deliberately

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confused the languages of men so that they couldn't talk to each other anymore.

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Suddenly one man could not speak to another at all.

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You have one guy speaking proto-traumatic and another guy speaking proto-Japanese.

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They're aliens to each other.

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Even though by blood they're related, God said, you know what?

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You didn't go your separate ways.

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I'm going to separate you because you're never going to be able to communicate again.

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They did.

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That was what it finally took was the division of language to separate groups which were

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then still fairly closely related because they'd only recently come off the ark.

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We know how many generations, but it wasn't very long.

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Those people were scattered across the face of the earth by God because they were crying

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one race, the human race.

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God said, this is evil.

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I am stopping it now.

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That's what did he do according to Acts 1726.

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He appointed the boundaries of men and the boundaries of the dwelling places and the numbers

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of their days.

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He said, you're going to go here and you're going to go there.

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As I mentioned before, you can look at a topographical map of Europe and you can see Norway

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Sweden and Finland from space in the topography.

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You can see the mountain range that divide the Norsemen from the suite.

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You can see the mountain range that divides the Portuguese from the Spanish.

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If you just look at a political map of Portugal in Spain, why is that little sliver there

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as a separate country?

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Never made any sense to me.

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I was many years old when I finally saw this topographical map and like, holy crap,

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I see Portugal.

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Now God did that.

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God made those mountain ranges and He sent men to those places.

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And what happened when they went to those places?

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They became isolated.

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They were isolated by language as God ordained.

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And then through the process of interbreeding and intermarrying, the genetic content in their

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bodies became winnowed.

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So the men who were descended from Adam and from Noah who went to Norway got more and more

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pale because the genes for them to lose the expression of formalinan that would cause

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them to reject most vitamin D in their skins went away.

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Now a Norseman who moves to the equator is not going to suddenly turn black again.

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It was a one way trip just as you cannot take a chihuahua and turn him back into a wolf.

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Even though I think that personally I think it's arguable that if you look at the species

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that were on the ark, I don't think that you had a wolf in a coyote and a German shepherd,

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even though those all look very similar.

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They all have a same common ancestor and see that the evolutionist will tell you that

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ancestor is tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of years in the past.

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The Christian will say, well the earth is about 6,000 years old so that doesn't make sense.

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And all the mammals were killed except for those that were two by two on the ark.

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So 4,500 years ago we have this choke point where all the genes of all the creatures that

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live on land or fly were placed on the ark.

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Personally I believe that there was a wolf or a proto wolf on the ark and that all of

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the speciation of the wolf, the coyote, the dog, the fox.

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Everything downstream from the wolf classification genetically came from that pair.

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And as they went their separate ways and they went to their separate areas where God

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had ordained for the Arctic fox to live here and the desert fox to live here.

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They're both foxes but they're very differently equipped genetically and human beings work

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the same way.

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Not that we're foxes, not that we're dogs but that we're creatures.

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That we're God's creatures and in his infinite wisdom he gave Adam the genetic material to

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fill the entire earth.

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So when we talk about race it is not a denial of creation.

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It's not a denial of the sixth day creation or of the 6,000 year history of earth.

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And it's not to say that human beings are just another animal like all the rest but we

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do behave in similar ways because we're all made from the same stuff.

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And the genes that God gave us work in the same ways.

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And one of the values of looking at things like dogs is because they have much shorter

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gestational periods.

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You can get most of the dog species subspecies today didn't exist 200 years ago.

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They all have a common ancestor that's almost in living memory.

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If you get a really old person who remembers another really old person from their family

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they can probably that person would be able to remember the ancestor of all the dogs today

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even though that person 200 years ago if he looked at a chihuahua and looked at the

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same Bernard like what is this stuff I have no idea looks like nothing I've ever seen.

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Genetically they all came from the same place.

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We're talking about the same thing with people and it's not a denial of humanity and it's

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not a denial of salvation it's saying that this is how God has chosen to work in the

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last 4500 years since the flood in human lives and that's one of the big hurdles because

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the data sounds atheist but the conclusions are entirely consistent with scripture and

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they're also entirely consistent with observable reality.

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And that's something that I hope people will take away from this discussion is that we're

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not talking about theories, we're not talking about hypotheses, we're talking about measurable

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discernible facts and ones that actually have consequences and we'll deal with those

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consequences in future episodes but first we need to establish that this stuff is actually

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real and it's not a threat to your faith to look at it as a real thing.

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In fact, the real denial of the faith comes from denying these things because if you

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deny the reality of human race or these distinctions, these differences, what God did in time

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in the physical world, really that's a form of nosticism because you are denying the reality

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of the flesh and so that is a violation of the first article of the creed.

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But I think possibly this is a good time to do just a quick biology lesson to give those

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who haven't had biology in a while or perhaps never took it, a bit of the fundamentals,

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the mechanics here, how this actually works and plays out in reality.

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And so there are some terms it is important to know.

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I would hope people are familiar with a few of the terms here but one in particular that

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is important is haplogroup.

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And a haplogroup is basically a group of people who share a common ancestor.

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It's defined as a certain number of alleles that tend to be inherited together, alleles

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being a different form of a gene.

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You can have different forms of the same gene if it's a different one that's an allele.

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And so you can look at a map of haplogroups and you can see race on that map.

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But two of the most important types of haplogroups and we'll put some images of these in the

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show notes would be according to mitochondrial DNA and according to Y chromosome DNA.

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And the reason that these two are important is because mitochondrial DNA is inherited

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from the mother alone.

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You do not get your mitochondrial DNA from your father.

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You get it from your mother because the mitochondrial DNA that comes from the sperm is destroyed in

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the ovum it is not passed on.

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Only the mitochondrial DNA from the mother is passed on.

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And so we have a mitochondrial eve.

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There is a woman at some point in history from whom all mitochondrial DNA comes.

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And of course that in the Christian case is eve is why she's called mitochondrial eve.

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Now mitochondrial DNA can mutate over time because really any DNA can mutate over time.

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Not all mutations are beneficial, most are harmful.

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But some of the mutations are either neutral or they don't harm the organism in such a way

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that it doesn't carry on.

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And so that will carry on to successive generations.

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That's the sort of mutation that does not terminate a line.

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It will continue.

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Mitochondrial DNA is very stable.

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We aren't certain how stable yet, but there are some studies that estimate that it mutates

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as infrequently as once every 8,000 years.

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Now of course, being Christians again, we know the earth is about 6,000 years old.

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This is the year of our Lord 6,027 give or take two or three years.

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So they're probably off by a little bit on the rate of mutation, but the point is that

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it is very stable.

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There's very little mutation in mitochondrial DNA.

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The other group is Y chromosome DNA.

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Hopefully those who've taken biology remember that women have two X chromosomes and men

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have an X and a Y chromosome.

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And so obviously you have to inherit your Y chromosome from your father.

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Y chromosomes do not really recombine.

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And now what recombining is, when you get your genetic information, you get half from

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your mother and half from your father, the chromosomes that match.

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So if it's the same chromosome, chromosome 5 from each parent, whatever it happens to be,

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there can be recombination where DNA can get swapped back and forth.

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And that's some of how you get genetic variance in populations over time is recombination.

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The Y chromosome recombines very little.

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It only recombines on a tail where it matches with the X chromosome that you receive from

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the mother, 95% of the Y chromosome does not recombine.

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And so you wind up having a relative stability in inheritable Y chromosome DNA over time.

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And so you can define human groups according to the Y chromosome because you can look back

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to a common male ancestor from whom this population inherited that chromosome.

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However, the Y chromosome mutates much more frequently, much more quickly than mitochondrial

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DNA.

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You get a mutation every generation or so in the Y chromosome.

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Now it's a small mutation.

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But this can be tracked over time.

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What that means is you can tell how groups split from each other over time as human being

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spread out over the surface of the earth.

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And so if you look at these two maps, together you can pretty much tell exactly where the

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races are delineated, simply on the basis of Y chromosome haplogroups and mitochondrial

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DNA haplogroups.

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And again, we will put the images of this in the show notes.

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You can literally look at it and go, I can see the jaffa thites on here.

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I can see the hamites on here.

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I can see the shemites on here.

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I can see Germanic Europe versus Slavic Europe versus Celtic Europe.

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These are real things that can be seen and tested in the real world.

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And they do not disagree with our faith whatsoever because they actually prove, again, it's

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further proof of the truth of the scriptures because you can see the groups that spread

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out from the ark.

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You can actually see a confirmation of what scripture says playing out in the real world

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as God designed it.

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We mentioned the show notes a lot and I hope that you're checking those every week.

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I hope you're clicking through the URL to look.

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This is a podcast that has homework.

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Now, you don't need to go look at the stuff in order to like follow up on future episodes.

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So it's not, it's a homework that's created.

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But in some cases, at least half of the episode isn't anything that we say, but it's a stuff

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that we like.

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So if you get value out of what we're saying, this episode and the next couple episodes

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in particular, please click through and look at this stuff so you can see for yourselves

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because this is an audio presentation and where this is a superficial look at this stuff.

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We're not going super in depth because frankly, it's not important for the purpose of these

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conversations.

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This conversation, this episode is specifically making the case that race is a real thing.

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So if you have gone around and said one race, the human race, which is very common, people

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say without a guilty conscience, they think that they're being Christian.

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That's part of why we're refuting it is that it's not a Christian say thing to say, but

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it sounds Christian.

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It's important as Christians to tell the truth.

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And the fact that Satan is attacking this specific area of the truth should be an indication

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to every Christian that there's something going on here that matters.

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Now in the episode that we did on Christian nationalism and in the episode that we did

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on election, both of those we talked of some length in part, probably about 20 minutes

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in each episode.

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We talked about some of these things about how race and ancestry are concentric circles.

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So the notion, and this is this was present I mentioned in a previous episode in the

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Webster 1828 definition of race or of nation.

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It specifically addresses the fact that there were the race of Adam and the Jews are the

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race of Abraham that we as Europeans are the race of Japheth.

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And then as you go on down, those races get smaller.

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And one of the common false arguments that's a cheap shot and it's dishonest, but it sounds

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convincing superficially is that well, how can a German and a Dutchman be a separate

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race if European and African are a separate race?

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None of it makes any sense.

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Like you hear people say that that well, if there's this sort of continuum, I can't make

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sense of any of it, none of it must exist.

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That's just facially nonsense.

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The fact that you have a mother and a father and that your third cousins have a different

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mother and father and yet that you have a common great-grandparent, however far back

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it goes, doesn't mean you're not related, it just means that you're related to a different

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degree than your immediate cousin or your brother or sister.

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These degrees of relation are the basis of race.

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Now there's the discussion of the subject.

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One of the things that will come up is that there are people who say nobody even talked

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about any of this stuff until Charles Darwin invented the origin of species and invented

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evolution in 1859 and suddenly everyone started talking about race and never existed before

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that.

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That's a bald face lie.

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It's such a laughably retarded lie that it beggars belief that it even exists and

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yet there's some fairly intelligent people superficially who will say things like that, not

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because it's true, because it's a conversation killing lie that no one is going to fight

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them over.

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You can go back to Aristotle and see him discussing ethnicity and he broke it down into culture,

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language and genetics, which is a good way of breaking it down.

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As Cory mentioned, the Germans and the Dutch are genetically almost indistinguishable.

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If you look at genes, you're probably not going to be able to tell someone who's Dutch

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from someone who's German, yet if you talk to him for 30 seconds, you can clearly tell

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the difference.

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And in many cases, you might be able to tell just by looking because there are differences

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that there are a lot of things about genetics that we don't understand yet.

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That doesn't mean it's not real, it just means we don't know what's going on.

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The fact of ignorance of a man does not disprove the reality of a fact.

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It simply means that what we see with our own eyes, we don't yet have a downstream

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explanation for it.

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It's okay not to know, but it's not okay to lie because you don't know.

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So it is true that there is no one gene for race.

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And we'll get into this more in a little bit, but the reason that there's no one gene

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is that race is so inextricably linked to who you are as a human being, as a man or

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woman that God created in time from all of those fathers and all of those mothers going

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all the way back to the flood and back to Adam.

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There's such an intrinsic part of you that is from that winnowing process.

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That's the reason there's no race gene.

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That's the reason there's no skin color gene, which is another lie that we'll get to in

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a minute.

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These are not superficial things.

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These are things that are so deeply embedded in us that we don't yet understand how deep

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they go.

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That doesn't mean that they don't exist at all.

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It just means that as current year science looks at genetic data, it doesn't know where

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to find it.

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And it doesn't know where to find it because there's so much of it that we don't yet understand.

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So looking at these things and saying, well, we don't understand, doesn't preclude the

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existence of the thing.

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It just means we don't have an explanation.

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And it's okay as a Christian to leave it at that.

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There are lots of things we don't have explanations for that doesn't mean their false.

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In the fact that some of these discussions are coming from atheists and from evolutionists

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who have harmful intent in mind when they spread their lying conclusions, doesn't undermine

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the reality of the created order that God has given for all of us to observe.

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And that's the important part of this.

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So to expand on, you brought up skin color, it's a good place to expand on that since

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we just went over the genetics as well.

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There are those who will try to argue that because you see different skin tones in different

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parts of the world, despite them clearly being different races, which is interesting.

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They're importing that assumption in there.

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But for instance, there are fair skin Japanese.

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There are fair skin Europeans.

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There are many fair skin people in the Middle East, even to this day, despite the various

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conquests that have taken place since the time of the New Testament.

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But it is not skin color that is the determiner of race.

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It is genetic descent that is the determiner of race.

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And that's why we speak of the race of japheth or the race of shem or the race of ham.

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It is because a race is founded by a founding stock.

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Now the genes that express and cause skin color may be shared across people groups.

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As mentioned, there are fair skin peoples in various parts of the world.

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There are dark skinned people in various parts of the world.

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There is some genetic relation between the Aborigines in Australia and sub-Saharan Africans.

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But they are distinct people groups, despite having the same skin tone.

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Because race is not skin tone, skin tone is part of your phenotype.

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And again, your phenotype is the physical expression of your genotype.

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Your genotype is your genetics.

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Now, there's more to heritability than genetics, but we won't get into that now.

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And quite frankly, even the sciences aren't yet settled on what exactly and how exactly

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that works.

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So genetics DNA is good enough for our purposes.

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But race is not your skin color.

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Skin color is not your race.

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Because it is more than that.

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You are who and what you are because of quite a lot of things that came together historically

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to make your people unique.

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You are a member of that group because God saw fit to make you a member of that group.

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That was part of his plan.

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All of these genetic differences between the various races of men existed in Adam.

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They were part of God's plan from the beginning.

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And so there are those who will tell you that race is a punishment from God as part of

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the Tower of Babel.

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And that is lying about God that is high-handed sin.

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Christians should never let those words pass their lips.

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The various races of men are part of God's plan because God intended for us to spread

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over the face of the world, adapt to the area in which we live, to be fruitful and multiply.

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And he built into Adam the ability to do that.

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And that is what has taken place.

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And so part of that, of course, is going to be skin tone.

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And if you want to look at the explanation for skin tone, it's very easy.

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Pull up a map of human skin tones.

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You'll see that it is simply a matter of how far you are away from or how close you

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are to the equator.

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And the reason for that is very simple.

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If you get farther away from the equator, you need to be able to absorb more sunlight

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for various biological processes.

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And so if you have more melanin in your skin, if you have darker skin, you are going

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to have a problem producing certain vitamins and other things.

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And you are going to have health problems because of that.

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So you need fair skin to let the sunlight pass through.

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If you are close to the equator, you are going to get plenty of sunlight.

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If you are as fair skinned as a sweet or a Norwegian, and you're living on the equator,

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you are going to get sunburned.

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That's not advantageous unless you live there long enough and are able to tan, of course.

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And so that's all skin tone is.

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When we speak about race, we're not speaking about skin tone.

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skin tone is part of the equation.

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It is simply what God built into humanity so that we could live anywhere on the planet.

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Instead of just having one skin tone and having to live in a narrow latitude.

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And the reason that's important to discuss skin color first is because one of the most

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common deceptions, and frankly one of the laziest things that is said, even among people

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who know what's going on, is to call some people white and other people black.

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You know what someone, it means when they say that, but it's a dangerous frame because

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it begs the question that that's all races.

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That if someone were lighter, they wouldn't be black anymore.

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You can Google pictures of albinoes of various races.

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You can have albinoes where they have identical skin tone.

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You can clearly tell who's white.

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You can tell who's Asian and you can tell who's African because you know what?

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There's a lot more going on and it's not just facial features.

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It's not just distinguishing eye shape or jaw shape or skull shape, although all those

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things are true.

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There is a tremendous amount going on by virtue of genetic variation in each of the distinct

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races and we begin with the color question because it's such an on-sense because one

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of the most common arguments against us will be, you don't like people who look different.

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You don't like people with different skin color.

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That's just stupid.

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It's just flat-out stupid.

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None of the discussion of race from those who say it's real has anything to do with skin

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color.

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Yes, it is a common shorthand because when you say black, everybody knows what you mean.

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However, that doesn't mean that because there's a gradient of colors, and at some point,

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you have a white person at the opposite point of a black person and there are shades in

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between that we can't possibly know what the difference between black and white is.

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That is a flat-out logical fallacy.

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It's just nonsense.

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And yet it's very common with someone.

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It's the fallacy of the human.

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It's deliberate deception in order to just throw a chaffin in there so no one can have

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an honest discussion about this stuff.

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There are so many aspects of what it means to have a particular race that manifests in

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terms of behavior, in terms of intelligence, in terms of disease profile.

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And doctors know all of these things, or at least they did 20 years ago.

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And this is what's really deadly about this lie, which as I said, the atheist evolutionists

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are now getting on the same pages of Christians and denying race exists, and they're killing

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people as a result.

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Because you know what?

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If you are African, of African descent, you have a much higher likelihood of having sickle

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cell anemia.

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It's a blood disorder that everyone's heard about.

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Your red blood cells have their shaped wrong.

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It turns out that the sickle cell mutation is actually advantageous in terms of fighting

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malaria.

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It's a mutation that harms your ability to correctly deal with oxygen uptake in your blood.

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I'm not sure what the effects are, but it has a positive effect.

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It has the effect of reducing the ability for malaria to reproduce in your body.

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That is only found in Africa because only Africans live near the equator where malaria

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is rampant.

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You can't have malaria swamps in places like Norway.

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There are no mosquitoes carrying malaria in the fjords.

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There are in Africa.

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These variations that have real world consequences like sickle cell anemia are specifically linked

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to race.

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It's not that being an African causes you to have sickle cell anemia, it's that the race

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of Africans tend to have that particular mutation because of where they lived for 4,500

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years.

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The same is true across numerous other groups if I had a friend who married a Jewish girl,

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and so when they had their first kid, she had to go to have specific prenatal testing

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for lots of different genetic diseases that are particular to Jews.

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If he had married someone who's white, it wouldn't have been an issue, but Jews are more

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likely to have tastesacks.

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They're 40% more likely to suffer from schizophrenia.

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All these things are genetics.

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I say, Jew, I'm not talking about someone who reads the talmud and wears the funny hat.

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I'm talking about someone who's descended from those who identify as the race of Jews.

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Now, it's not hateful to say that.

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I'm not saying curse these people because they're Jews and I want them to have bad diseases.

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They have bad diseases in their genes that are particular to them.

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These variations are racial, and today, as I said, doctors are now ignoring this stuff.

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We're saying, oh, it's all one race to human race.

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You can't possibly have any differences.

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Well, that's going to get a lot of people killed who wouldn't have died if they had received

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the appropriate treatment.

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I think as Christians, we need to be really concerned about the fact that an unexamined

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given that we brought forward to say, well, we're all descended from Adam.

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So we're all exactly the same.

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And scientists for a long time were saying, no, that's not true at all.

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We have all these meaningful differences in our bodies, in our genes that have profound

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physical consequences.

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Now, suddenly, the doctors, the so-called experts, are denying those things, and they're

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using the same rationale as the Christians.

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As we've said before, that should really concern you, because they're going to get people

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killed by lying, lies cause harm.

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They always cause harm.

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And the fact that doctors are now lying about tastes acts, and they're lying about sickle

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cell anemia, is done in the name of anti-racism, it's saying, well, we can't possibly differentiate

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or distinguish, so we must say we're all the same.

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And then you have people suffering and dying from genetic diseases that are derived specifically

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from their race, because a doctor will say, well, you're human, I can't tell.

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You have no specific risk profile, you're just a human being.

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That's a lie that does harm, and it's a moral matter.

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These things are moral matters, they're not simply scientific inquiry.

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We've danced a little bit around a point that I should probably make more explicit.

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When it comes to the percentage of your DNA that comes from certain ancestors, if you

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have very little DNA from someone who has seven or eight generations back, and that could

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very likely be the case, you are still, so long as all of those individuals married within

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your particular ethnic group, related to the other people in your ethnic group in a web

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of relations, because of course there is a great pool of shared genetic material in that

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particular group.

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And so you will be more related to any randomly chosen member of that group than a member

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of another group somewhere else in the world.

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And so for instance, if you are descended from the Dutch, living in the US, you're descended

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from the Dutch.

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If you went to the Netherlands, you would be more related to any random Dutchman you found

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than if you were to go to Africa and pick anyone in Africa.

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And this shows up in a couple of places in the same sort of vein as the medical issues.

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If you are descended from Japheth, which is say if you are white, if you are European,

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and you marry someone from Africa, which is to say someone descended from him, your children

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are effectively not related to you.

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Because their DNA is so different from yours that you are more closely related to any random

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person from your nation of origin than you are to your own child.

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And the reason this starts to cause problems is because if you need a bone marrow transplant

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or an organ transplant or any of a number of treatments, you will not be compatible.

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The odds of you being a compatible donor for your child are basically zero.

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The odds of you finding a compatible donor are also extremely low.

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So there are very real consequences of this in the real world.

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This is not something you can deny and just ignore it and hope for the best.

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Because if you ignore these things, there's a very real chance those consequences will occur

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and there's nothing you can do about it at that point.

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And so another issue for disease frequency is that you do actually see more diseases crop

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up in those who have a mixed lineage than those who do not.

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And so that is a consideration for Christians because what you have from your ancestors

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is what was given to you by God.

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And so you are supposed to pass that on to your children.

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You can, through poor decisions, steal from the next generation through your selfish decisions.

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And that is a moral consideration.

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And so these are things that Christians have to take into account.

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We do not simply get to ignore this issue because it makes us uncomfortable or because the

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world tells us that we should ignore it.

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And we have this happening today as was mentioned as well mentioned.

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We have doctors who will pretend that these problems don't exist.

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But oh, there's no predictive ability of your genetic ancestry, of your racial ancestry.

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And that's just a lie.

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But we've actually moved on from that.

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We're now on the next step down or up the Marxist ladder, whichever way you want to think of it.

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I guess down given the destination, we now have doctors and others denying the reality

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of sex.

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And the reason for that is that as said, it's just the next step on the ladder.

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It makes perfect sense in the Marxist timeline in their plan to go from denying the reality

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of human race to denying the reality of sex.

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Because if you're not really any particular race, you don't have an ethnic origin, that's

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genetic.

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Well, so is sex.

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Sex is also genetically determined again.

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Women have two X chromosomes, men have an X and a Y.

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And we see this coming up in the medical field and others where there are doctors now who

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recommend a scan for a variant cancer for a man who's claiming to be a woman.

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Or they won't do a check for prostate cancer in a man who's claiming to be a woman.

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Biology doesn't care what you claim to be.

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If you are a man, if you were born a man, you have a prostate and you can get prostate

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cancer.

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Or you will, if you live long enough.

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So that is something for which you have to screen, because that is a biological reality.

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The same plays out with regard to race.

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There are biological realities that flow from race and have to be considered, or real

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harm is caused.

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As we mentioned earlier, none of this is a denial that we're all the same species.

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One of the definitions of a species that's typically accepted taxonomically for any creature

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is the ability to interbreed if two creatures can reproduce viable offspring that themselves

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can reproduce.

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They're typically considered.

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That's one of the measures by which you determine if it's the same species.

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It is absolutely true that a European and an African can reproduce and can reproduce viable

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offspring, which themselves can reproduce.

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However, when you look at the fertility rates across all the various populations, the peak

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fertility for how related you are to someone is actually in about the fourth cousin.

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So that's not simply talking about another white person if you're European.

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And it's not simply talking about another German.

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It means if you're German, it means someone who lives in the same town as you probably,

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maybe the next town over, but someone that you potentially would see at a family reunion.

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Now a fourth cousin is a fairly distant cousin, but it's close enough that you may well

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know their name, particularly if you're blessed to live in a community which really doesn't

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exist anywhere where you would keep in contact.

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There's a theological import to the fact that fourth cousins have the highest rate of

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fecundity.

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That's not trivial.

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Children are a blessing from God.

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And that which is blessed is that which is most desirous from God.

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He doesn't bless things that he finds to be evil, not in the same way.

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He blesses things.

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He finds to be good.

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And so if fourth cousins are the peak fecundity, that what that means is that if you marry

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a first or second cousin, you're less likely to reproduce for any given event of marriage.

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If you're looking at a sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth cousin or someone who's a complete

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stranger from the other side of the world, the fertility rate falls off significantly.

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That's not random.

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And I think one of the problems that humans have and Christians have when dealing with

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questions of genetics is the question of randomness because we can't see the inputs.

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Well we can see his behavior.

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We can see a person, a person, b, we can see their behavior.

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And then we can see the outcomes of sort of a high level.

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There's so much apparent randomness in what happens with genetic admixture that is imperceptible

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to the human mind and in many cases, simply uncalculable that we tend to disregard it as

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being inconsequential.

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And I think that as Christians, the reality that we should focus on is that God knows

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what's going on at these levels.

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When God gave Adam 46 chromosomes, He knew the contents of every single gene in there.

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He knew all of it.

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There are 30,000 odd genes.

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He knew what was in each of them.

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He chose them specifically for specific purposes.

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When He brought Eve from out of Adam's body, Eve was a fully formed woman.

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What that meant was that she probably had in the order of hundreds of thousands, maybe

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million or so eggs inside her body.

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One thing that a lot of people don't know is that when a little girl is born, she has

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as many eggs as she's ever going to have in her entire life.

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Eggs are not reproduced during the life of a person.

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They're produced at a germ level in utero.

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And then they die off throughout the person's life, the girl's life.

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And they're also shed once ovulation begins.

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And so a girl is born.

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She's conceived initially as something like six or seven million of what could potentially

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become OVA.

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By the time of birth, there's about 300,000 give or take.

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By the time she begins to reach sexual maturity, she's lost about 10,000 of those every month.

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And then one or two are shed every month through ovulation.

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And then at menopause, basically the system shuts down because the eggs are basically

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exhausted.

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So there's a finite amount of them.

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They God creates when He creates life.

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And then they're depleted.

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And that's the end of the girl's reproductive life, it's not the end of her life.

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But it's the end of her life as someone who can potentially reproduce.

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Men sort of work in the opposite direction.

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We don't really begin producing sperm until puberty.

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And then we produce millions a day until long after we're likely to ever be reproducing.

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And so God has architected our bodies in different ways to achieve His ends.

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But it seems random to us.

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It's not random to God.

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And so the fact that fourth cousins are the most likely to be blessed by reproducing successfully

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is itself, I believe, a theological conclusion.

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It points to the fact that marrying not only within your own race, like we're not just

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talking about white people, Mary white people, Asians, Mary Asians.

01:03:03.120 --> 01:03:08.600
It's a question of, as Corey said, how closely related are you to someone?

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Because when you're looking, if you need a bone marrow match or a kidney donor or something,

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it's not simply another European that's going to do the job.

01:03:17.120 --> 01:03:22.000
They're not closely related enough because we said these are concentric circles.

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You need someone who has a very similar ancestry to your own to have the chance, the random

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chance from a human perspective, but it's not random, it's up to God.

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All of these things are passed down through time and God acts in time to produce each of

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us in a particular way.

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I'm about 75% English give or take and about 20% German.

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So someone else with a similar ancestry is my relative.

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If they came from Kent and they came from Saxony, we're closely related.

01:03:53.600 --> 01:04:00.120
More so than someone, even someone who might be Spanish, I would be more closely related

01:04:00.120 --> 01:04:05.600
to a random Englishman who was 20% Dutch than to a Spaniard by virtue of the fact that

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these things group over time and tend to cluster.

01:04:09.200 --> 01:04:15.360
And again, if you've listened to us thus far, at no point have we said anything hateful,

01:04:15.360 --> 01:04:18.960
rather than saying that human beings are created by God differently.

01:04:18.960 --> 01:04:23.160
And the fact that the world is now saying that that itself is hateful should be a cause

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for great concern for Christians because it flies in the face of Scripture.

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It flies in the face of the truth of what we discover when we look at these facts.

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Why is that lie so important?

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Because when Satan authored, he had something in mind and when Christians are parroting

01:04:40.920 --> 01:04:48.720
that lie, we need to be more wily and more concerned about what the final goal of such

01:04:48.720 --> 01:04:50.120
a lie is.

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And when we repeat them, when we say it's just skin color, skins, it's only skin deep,

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one race to human race, these bumper sticker tropes that make people feel better.

01:04:59.960 --> 01:05:03.040
And maybe it's a good way to tamp down some disagreement that the two people have in

01:05:03.040 --> 01:05:06.320
the moment and you say, look, you know, this is a Noah family reunion.

01:05:06.320 --> 01:05:09.400
You guys need to just get along.

01:05:09.400 --> 01:05:10.560
People should get along.

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They should get along peacefully, but it shouldn't be done in terms that cause us to have

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to lie to get there.

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That's not what God desires.

01:05:17.800 --> 01:05:24.200
He desires us to be peaceful, even in the face of things that are maybe not desirable,

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but we don't lie to get there.

01:05:26.320 --> 01:05:30.360
And when we lie about race, as Cory said, it's an attack on the creator.

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If you lie about how you were created, you were lying about he who created you.

01:05:35.720 --> 01:05:38.760
And he who created you is he who redeemed you.

01:05:38.760 --> 01:05:43.600
And we'll talk a lot more about that in the second episode, but again, these are these

01:05:43.600 --> 01:05:47.520
are theological questions that manifest in space and time.

01:05:47.520 --> 01:05:52.280
And the fact that they're all seen particularly lately through this Marxist lens, where again,

01:05:52.280 --> 01:05:54.240
they don't want to talk about what race is.

01:05:54.240 --> 01:05:57.280
They just want to talk about it as a weapon.

01:05:57.280 --> 01:06:02.760
We has Christians must get away from accepting their frame and looking at the actual ground

01:06:02.760 --> 01:06:07.440
truth of these matters because failure to do that is setting us up for failure because

01:06:07.440 --> 01:06:12.920
whatever lie you want to adopt, Satan has a step two or a step three for that lie.

01:06:12.920 --> 01:06:15.840
He knows what the next move is, even if we don't.

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And that's why it's so important to guard ourselves up front against not repeating some

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of these deceptions.

01:06:22.120 --> 01:06:27.760
To go back for a second to something we said earlier, to give people a hard numbers

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and some will not be familiar with this, when we say that human beings, one human being

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to another is going to be somewhere between 98 and 99.9% the same genetically.

01:06:41.520 --> 01:06:47.480
Human beings have three billion base pairs roughly in our genomes.

01:06:47.480 --> 01:06:53.600
So a difference of one tenth of one percent is three million base pairs.

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This is not a trivial difference.

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It sounds like a small difference until you realize the scale of the thing about which

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we are talking.

01:07:01.640 --> 01:07:06.080
And so when you're dealing with three billion base pairs, that one tenth of one percent

01:07:06.080 --> 01:07:12.880
difference is significant, particularly given the rate of mutations that occur over time.

01:07:12.880 --> 01:07:19.280
When we talked about race being skin deep, there was a scientific study that was done

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about a year and a half ago.

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It was done by someone, a doctor who was basically employing what is called artificial intelligence

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to X-rays to make conclusions related to healthcare outcomes, basically trying to determine

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with a whole bunch of X-rays of people's chests and various other body parts to make sure

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that as it was going through their machinery, they would be giving them the desired outputs

01:07:48.040 --> 01:07:50.520
and not undesirable ones.

01:07:50.520 --> 01:07:56.040
And this person is diametrically opposed to us in terms of politics.

01:07:56.040 --> 01:08:00.880
In fact, I actually had trouble finding the thread earlier today because the screenshot

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that I had of the thread was from a doctor Luke.

01:08:03.600 --> 01:08:05.800
And now he's, I think, Dr. Laura.

01:08:05.800 --> 01:08:09.240
The guy who did this is now pretending to be a woman.

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So that gives you some idea where he is on the political spectrum.

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And yet, what he found in the paper that he and some other authors did was that when

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they fed these X-rays into their artificial intelligence algorithm, it was able to determine

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the race of the patient, even when that was never the question asked.

01:08:29.360 --> 01:08:34.960
Now, the race that they were using wasn't anything based on genetics, it was simply self-identified.

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If the patient said on the form, I'm white, I'm black, whatever, that was what they correlated

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back to the images.

01:08:42.440 --> 01:08:46.400
Now, the important thing is that they never told the computer anything about any of the

01:08:46.400 --> 01:08:47.440
racial data.

01:08:47.440 --> 01:08:52.120
They just said, here are a bunch of chest X-rays, can you divide them up?

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What they found was that with a clear chest X-ray, the machinery, the computer algorithm

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with 99% accuracy was able to determine if someone was European African or Asian.

01:09:04.720 --> 01:09:10.920
Let me say that again, looking at a chest X-ray, the computer could tell if you were European

01:09:10.920 --> 01:09:13.960
African or Asian, no other information.

01:09:13.960 --> 01:09:17.680
Now, the authors completely freaked out because they're like, oh my God, the computer's

01:09:17.680 --> 01:09:19.280
racist, what do we do?

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Because they were thinking the same thing, a lot of you were thinking, the race isn't

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real, we're all one race, the human race, and if these computers are finding this race

01:09:26.280 --> 01:09:30.800
stuff in these images, we're in real trouble.

01:09:30.800 --> 01:09:33.760
Now I said artificial intelligence because that's the term that's used, but it's really

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a nonsense term.

01:09:36.160 --> 01:09:40.640
What these specific computer algorithms do is simply pattern matching.

01:09:40.640 --> 01:09:46.800
They look at a collection of data, whether it's images or sounds or whatever, and they

01:09:46.800 --> 01:09:54.760
measure the probability with which one thing is likely to be similar to another.

01:09:54.760 --> 01:09:58.640
So when I say pattern matching, when you match a pattern as a person, maybe I show you a

01:09:58.640 --> 01:10:03.920
red ball, and I show you a blue ball, and ask you are they the same, and you would say,

01:10:03.920 --> 01:10:07.880
well, they're the same shape, but they're not the same color, what do you mean by same?

01:10:07.880 --> 01:10:11.080
If I showed you a red ball and a red ball, and ask you are the same, the pattern, but

01:10:11.080 --> 01:10:16.280
yeah, they're the same, maybe the size varies, but the shape and the color are the same.

01:10:16.280 --> 01:10:20.040
So when a human pattern matches, it's based on particularity.

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Now we might generalize and just sort of a glance, say, those two things are similar.

01:10:24.560 --> 01:10:27.120
The computers have no notion of ball.

01:10:27.120 --> 01:10:33.120
They have no concept of ballness or colorness, or any of the other aptitudes, the other qualities

01:10:33.120 --> 01:10:34.560
of the thing.

01:10:34.560 --> 01:10:40.960
All they're doing is saying image one is 83% consistent with image two, and that's literally

01:10:40.960 --> 01:10:41.960
it.

01:10:42.040 --> 01:10:48.120
So when they fed these chest x-rays and all the other x-rays into the hopper, it didn't

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know what an x-ray was, it didn't know what a skeleton was, it didn't know what a human

01:10:51.320 --> 01:10:57.400
was, all it knew was the some bones and some other bones, and it was still able to divide

01:10:57.400 --> 01:11:04.320
them with 99% accuracy into the bucket of European, African, and Asian.

01:11:04.320 --> 01:11:11.240
Now if you individually have ever said race is only skin deep, race is a social construct,

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how do you process that?

01:11:13.200 --> 01:11:18.320
How do you deal with the fact that an x-ray can show, and it wasn't a full body x-ray,

01:11:18.320 --> 01:11:23.280
it wasn't a skeleton, we'll get to skeletons in a moment, but when you just show a portion

01:11:23.280 --> 01:11:29.960
of individuals skeleton to a machine, it's able to tell what race they were.

01:11:29.960 --> 01:11:33.480
Part of the reason they was so shocking to the scientist was they didn't know was possible.

01:11:33.480 --> 01:11:39.440
It was a completely shocking revelation because no x-ray tech has ever been able to look

01:11:39.440 --> 01:11:44.160
at someone's chest x-ray, and that's a black guy, that's a white guy.

01:11:44.160 --> 01:11:48.280
It doesn't happen, and yet the computer, because it was able to see things the humans

01:11:48.280 --> 01:11:55.160
can't see, just in terms of statistical comparison, it said, yeah, these three buckets exist,

01:11:55.160 --> 01:11:59.840
and these three buckets have names, the humans have given them, which are races, major

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racial groups.

01:12:01.720 --> 01:12:06.840
And the wildest part of this thing was it with perfectly clear x-rays, they were able

01:12:06.840 --> 01:12:09.800
to do with 99% accuracy.

01:12:09.800 --> 01:12:14.280
They also used degraded x-rays, where they deleted more and more information, basically

01:12:14.280 --> 01:12:15.280
downresing it.

01:12:15.280 --> 01:12:20.680
So if you have a 4K picture, and you take it down to HD, and then you take it down to

01:12:20.680 --> 01:12:26.560
imagine the original iPhone with a 320x240 screen, and you take it even smaller than that,

01:12:26.560 --> 01:12:31.160
they found that the computer was still able to tell what the race was, even with a radically

01:12:31.160 --> 01:12:36.000
reduced resolution, which really blew their minds, because where is it getting the information?

01:12:36.000 --> 01:12:40.320
And yet the consistent results were still over 90% accuracy.

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So they took it a step further.

01:12:41.960 --> 01:12:46.720
They took the original image, there was high definition, but they began to apply a random

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noise filter to it.

01:12:48.240 --> 01:12:53.000
Now what that means is that they would randomly flip pixels black or white, and so what

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you got was just a gray fuzz.

01:12:55.600 --> 01:12:59.640
They were able to fuzz it to the point that the images themselves just look like gray

01:12:59.640 --> 01:13:00.640
squares.

01:13:00.640 --> 01:13:04.960
So as a human being looking at it, not only you would know as an x-ray, you wouldn't

01:13:04.960 --> 01:13:10.240
be able to tell one image from a part, from the other apart, and yet the algorithm was

01:13:10.240 --> 01:13:17.080
still able to tell with 90% accuracy that one image came from an African, another came

01:13:17.080 --> 01:13:20.560
from a European, and the third came from an Asian.

01:13:20.560 --> 01:13:26.960
Now all this is to say is that race is so deeply and inextricably linked inside our bodies

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that it manifests in ways that we had no idea even existed.

01:13:30.360 --> 01:13:34.760
It wasn't until they fed all these images into the computer that anyone had any idea

01:13:34.760 --> 01:13:40.080
you could tell from a chest x-ray or a wrist x-ray what race someone was.

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There's never been any study that showed that before, which doesn't say it's false.

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It was an absolutely true discovery, but it was completely unexpected and was unexpected

01:13:49.560 --> 01:13:51.080
by people who were terrified.

01:13:51.080 --> 01:13:54.680
The paper that they wrote was basically, oh my god, the computer's racist.

01:13:54.680 --> 01:13:56.760
How do we will lobotomize it?

01:13:56.760 --> 01:14:01.080
Because again, if there's one race, the human race, and yet the computer is saying this

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guy is white, this guy is Asian, if you deny race, you're going to be terrified of the

01:14:06.920 --> 01:14:11.280
fact that the computer is reaching impermissible outcomes.

01:14:11.280 --> 01:14:16.680
And so it was a cause for hysteria, but I look at it and say, well, on one hand it's kind

01:14:16.680 --> 01:14:20.840
of surprising how much it was intrinsic, but on the other hand, it's not surprising at

01:14:20.840 --> 01:14:21.840
all.

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Because we know, as we pointed back in the albino example, facial structure, skull structure

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is radically different.

01:14:31.760 --> 01:14:37.200
There are intrinsic aspects of human beings that are distinctly categorized by race that

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have nothing to do with skin color.

01:14:38.800 --> 01:14:43.880
They have nothing to do with anything except for, after thousands of years of variation,

01:14:43.880 --> 01:14:49.080
of genetic variation, we've come out differently, which again is not a value judgment.

01:14:49.080 --> 01:14:52.480
It's just saying that we're different in observable ways.

01:14:52.480 --> 01:14:57.920
And as Christians, we should be able to say, yes, we're different in observable ways.

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Without feeling that that threatens anyone's salvation, or that it threatens the gospel

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because it absolutely doesn't, what does threaten the gospel is lying about these things

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and that should be our chief concern.

01:15:09.600 --> 01:15:16.000
So it's interesting that a machine would be able to pick out race from something that

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for a human being looking at it, it would be effectively noise.

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There would be essentially no signal there that would be discernible by us, and that

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was just with chest X-rays.

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Human beings can actually train human beings, obviously, can tell from skeletons the race

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and the sex of someone because there are very distinct formations the way the skeleton

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is shaped, different densities, all sorts of things that you can tell.

01:15:48.120 --> 01:15:54.000
So you can tell the race and the sex of someone from a skeleton alone.

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And we see this all the time, this is done all the time by anthropologists, by archaeologists,

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by those who are studying ancient civilizations.

01:16:02.080 --> 01:16:08.280
If you dig up a skeleton and you have the training, you can definitively say that was

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a European male between these ages.

01:16:12.720 --> 01:16:17.120
And so obviously, yes, a computer can do this as well because a computer can do it from

01:16:17.120 --> 01:16:22.760
an X-ray that's downgraded to the point of being noise, but it's just further refutation

01:16:22.760 --> 01:16:27.920
of those who would try to say that skin color is race or that race is skin color, that

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it's skin deep, it's not.

01:16:31.360 --> 01:16:35.360
There are fundamental differences, and you can see that in the skeletal structure, you

01:16:35.360 --> 01:16:40.760
can see that in the biology, you can see that in, we'll get into in later episodes, behavior

01:16:40.760 --> 01:16:43.320
and other things.

01:16:43.320 --> 01:16:49.520
Race is a fundamental part of human nature, and that is by God's design, because of course

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human nature is God's design.

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And in the case of skeletons being dug up, this is actually an important part of forensics

01:16:57.600 --> 01:16:59.240
for police.

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If they discover a skeleton in a field or something for a person who's been dead for some time

01:17:04.840 --> 01:17:09.940
and there's no longer any distinguishing physical characteristics, they will call it, call

01:17:09.940 --> 01:17:16.000
in these experts, who can clearly determine the race, the sex.

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And in some cases, even the age and perhaps the sort of life that the person led, one

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of the interesting things from anthropology when digging up older skeletons is that they

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can tell, for example, or any skeleton, really, they can tell what sort of childhood and

01:17:31.880 --> 01:17:37.440
upbringing you had, they can determine the rate of your nutrition, were you being fed

01:17:37.440 --> 01:17:43.280
well, were you being underfed, they can tell if you let an active physical lifestyle.

01:17:43.280 --> 01:17:50.200
So if someone was engaged in strenuous physical activity, particularly as they are going

01:17:50.200 --> 01:17:53.880
through puberty, that actually affects your growth plates.

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So your bones will look different than someone who let a more sedentary life, which in the

01:17:59.640 --> 01:18:05.400
case of history will tend to indicate what cast someone fell into, what class, were they

01:18:05.400 --> 01:18:10.160
a laborer, were they a warrior, were they, you know, someone who lived in a castle and

01:18:10.160 --> 01:18:15.080
maybe they did those things for fun or for training, but not because it was life and

01:18:15.080 --> 01:18:16.080
death.

01:18:16.080 --> 01:18:21.840
So all of these things are manifest in our physical bodies and they're left long after

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our skin has gone.

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And this too has been become controversial recently.

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I was reading an account earlier today from a girl who was, I believe she was teaching

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a class related to the study of bones dug up by police to identify victims.

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And the professor who was supervising the class and the students lost their minds when

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she said that you can tell the race of someone by their skeleton, they went into a frenzy.

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They were so upset at the idea that you could tell the race of a person without looking

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at their skin color.

01:19:00.200 --> 01:19:05.040
Now that's not the response of someone pursuing an academic truth.

01:19:05.040 --> 01:19:10.800
That's not the response of someone who has in their mind, I want to learn what is

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real.

01:19:12.160 --> 01:19:14.120
That's a religious response.

01:19:14.120 --> 01:19:19.560
When you say something and people weep and they nash their teeth and they tear their

01:19:19.560 --> 01:19:26.480
clothes and they howl, that is religious, that is a religious response to hearing blasphemy.

01:19:26.480 --> 01:19:31.760
And we're doing this episode because it's blasphemous, not against God, but discussing

01:19:31.760 --> 01:19:39.000
race in these realistic terms is absolutely blasphemous to the spirit of this modern age,

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which for a while, again, said yes, race was real when they were talking about evolution.

01:19:44.440 --> 01:19:49.640
But now that they're trying to collapse all of humanity back before the powtower of

01:19:49.640 --> 01:19:57.800
Babel into a single, seething mass of undifferentiated humanity with neither sex nor race nor

01:19:57.800 --> 01:20:04.120
any distinguishing characteristics apart from being a consumer, the spirit of this age

01:20:04.120 --> 01:20:08.880
is in opposition to telling the truth about these things now.

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And unfortunately, most Christians are behind the ape all because we have not seriously

01:20:14.240 --> 01:20:19.480
engaged in the question because the origins of something, we've talked many times about

01:20:19.480 --> 01:20:27.240
the genealogy of ideas and I've tried to focus when we discuss that on the genealogy is

01:20:27.240 --> 01:20:32.320
not simply from whence it came, but what was the original motivation of whoever was coming

01:20:32.320 --> 01:20:33.640
up with it?

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Now race has always been understood by human beings.

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It's found throughout scripture.

01:20:39.440 --> 01:20:43.080
We've talked about that in the two previous episodes I mentioned.

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The differentiation between the races has become greater and greater over time as we left

01:20:48.120 --> 01:20:52.720
Mount Anorayarat and finally filled the earth as God commanded.

01:20:52.720 --> 01:20:59.080
There's far more diversity genetically today than there was 500 years after Mount Erad

01:20:59.080 --> 01:21:04.120
was as Chorus mentioning that's simply how mutation works and that is how the migration

01:21:04.120 --> 01:21:08.320
of these genes back and forth among people as they reproduce works.

01:21:08.320 --> 01:21:14.880
That's not contrary to God's plan and you can see in Revelation 7-9 that all the nations

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are gathered around the throne and when John was looking at them, he could tell what

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race they were.

01:21:21.080 --> 01:21:23.720
He could tell that they were from the various nations.

01:21:23.720 --> 01:21:29.280
So that goes back to the gnostic element of this denial of the flesh.

01:21:29.280 --> 01:21:34.560
It is fundamentally gnostic for us to say, oh, we're all just spirits, we'll get a new

01:21:34.560 --> 01:21:37.880
body that won't be anything like this body we have now.

01:21:37.880 --> 01:21:39.960
That's utterly blasphemous.

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God created you personally, exactly as he intended you to be.

01:21:45.080 --> 01:21:52.240
Now what came out of your mother's womb is indeed injured by sin and degradation.

01:21:52.240 --> 01:21:57.480
When God raises us from the dead, all of those degradations, all of the genetic deformities,

01:21:57.480 --> 01:22:02.400
all the defects will be washed away, nothing will be present that isn't perfect.

01:22:02.400 --> 01:22:06.880
But the imperfections that are washed away will not include the race that we are because

01:22:06.880 --> 01:22:10.480
that is absolutely a part of God's perfect plan.

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It's part of the plan in Acts 1726 when he describes the nations being given the boundaries

01:22:15.160 --> 01:22:20.560
of their dwelling places and it's present in Revelation 7-9 before the throne of God,

01:22:20.560 --> 01:22:26.200
in all the nations of the world, of every color, of every appearance, of every language

01:22:26.200 --> 01:22:31.800
gather before the throne of God, which means that they are perfected in the languages

01:22:31.800 --> 01:22:36.720
and the physical bodies that they were given in this life.

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The race that you're given is the race that you will always be.

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And if you despise that, you need to be seriously concerned because if you're despising how

01:22:46.680 --> 01:22:54.840
God created you, the damter resurrected too, there's no annihilationism in Scripture.

01:22:54.840 --> 01:22:59.920
Every dead man will be raised on the last day and the sheep are then separated from the

01:22:59.920 --> 01:23:00.920
goats.

01:23:00.920 --> 01:23:07.960
So those who deny their race and deny their creator as a result of it and deny the resurrection

01:23:07.960 --> 01:23:12.600
of the body by saying, well, I'm not going to be raised as a white man or as a Japanese

01:23:12.680 --> 01:23:19.040
man or as a Ugandan, I'm just going to be raised as something new.

01:23:19.040 --> 01:23:21.640
You're flirting with damnation and God will sort that out.

01:23:21.640 --> 01:23:26.720
I'm not saying that you're not saved if you say those things, but I am saying that you

01:23:26.720 --> 01:23:31.880
were saying to God, I hate what you made, I want to be something different.

01:23:31.880 --> 01:23:37.200
That is not a confession that any of us should seek to take before the throne of God.

01:23:37.200 --> 01:23:43.160
When Christ died for each of us and his blood covers our sins and washes our robes white

01:23:43.160 --> 01:23:48.920
in his blood, that is for every man who has ever descended from Adam, but only the robes

01:23:48.920 --> 01:23:52.280
of those who confess Christ will receive that.

01:23:52.280 --> 01:23:56.760
And confessing Christ means confessing how He created us.

01:23:56.760 --> 01:23:59.680
We were created through Him, we were redeemed through Him.

01:23:59.680 --> 01:24:01.880
We will be resurrected with Him.

01:24:01.880 --> 01:24:09.120
And if we take a hatred of self and a hatred of creation to judgment day, that's a sin

01:24:09.120 --> 01:24:11.200
that we need to repent for as well.

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And denial of race and denial of these truths is a sin.

01:24:16.080 --> 01:24:21.060
Even though there are some who use these truths for evil ends, that does not make the

01:24:21.060 --> 01:24:25.840
truths themselves evil, that makes the truths themselves the truth.

01:24:25.840 --> 01:24:31.280
Truth can be a weapon, truth can do harm or can do good, but you do not solve the harm

01:24:31.360 --> 01:24:35.080
that can be done by a truth by denying that it's true.

01:24:35.080 --> 01:24:39.920
And as Christians, we have no choice but to engage first in truth and then to approach

01:24:39.920 --> 01:24:42.280
and love all that which is true.

01:24:42.280 --> 01:24:44.600
So is the future episodes common?

01:24:44.600 --> 01:24:47.920
We go into more detail on the spiritual aspects of this.

01:24:47.920 --> 01:24:55.280
I want everyone to keep in mind that this is not some side show.

01:24:55.280 --> 01:24:59.320
We can see in the world how much race matters to Satan.

01:24:59.320 --> 01:25:02.600
And if it matters to Satan, it must matter to Christians.

01:25:02.600 --> 01:25:10.120
And until we've done this episode, I'm not aware of any serious discussion among Christians

01:25:10.120 --> 01:25:15.280
that had any depth or clarity, they would address these issues in a way that's going to

01:25:15.280 --> 01:25:19.640
be blasphemous to the world, but yet consistent with Scripture.

01:25:19.640 --> 01:25:24.080
And I hope that there will be more Christians who will begin to study and think and engage

01:25:24.160 --> 01:25:29.920
in this way because I think that the time is growing short for the church.

01:25:29.920 --> 01:25:33.480
And I think that we should be prepared to give a defense for everything, including creation

01:25:33.480 --> 01:25:34.480
itself.

01:25:34.480 --> 01:25:38.680
So I'd encourage everyone to please look at the show notes, look at the all the different

01:25:38.680 --> 01:25:39.680
links we'll have there.

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This is probably more than most.

01:25:41.360 --> 01:25:45.640
I would like to mention one of the websites that we're going to link to is from an old

01:25:45.640 --> 01:25:48.600
friend from Twitter Thuletide.

01:25:48.600 --> 01:25:51.720
He's not a Christian, he is an old earth evolutionist.

01:25:51.720 --> 01:25:58.680
So many of the things that he says you will find offensive for some of the conclusions.

01:25:58.680 --> 01:26:02.920
The reason that we're going to link to him is that he's honest.

01:26:02.920 --> 01:26:06.840
There are some things that are said within the right wings, fear on Twitter that are based

01:26:06.840 --> 01:26:12.560
on race that he will also refute to the right when it doesn't agree with the facts.

01:26:12.560 --> 01:26:15.920
I don't know his background, but I can tell from reading him for many years.

01:26:15.920 --> 01:26:18.920
He's a very smart guy and he really knows this stuff.

01:26:18.920 --> 01:26:24.640
And so we're going to link to him because he has a number of one-on-one articles that

01:26:24.640 --> 01:26:28.080
go down some of the fallacies are involved in this subject.

01:26:28.080 --> 01:26:31.520
Many things you may well believe now, we've refuted a few of them, but there are plenty

01:26:31.520 --> 01:26:32.680
of others.

01:26:32.680 --> 01:26:36.720
So as you look at that again, I would encourage you to try to separate the Wii from the

01:26:36.720 --> 01:26:38.280
Traff.

01:26:38.280 --> 01:26:42.480
There will be things on the webpage that I will tell you right now, some of the conclusions

01:26:42.480 --> 01:26:47.040
particularly around the timelines, saying that these things took Conards of Thousands

01:26:47.040 --> 01:26:48.560
of Years.

01:26:48.560 --> 01:26:49.640
Those are false.

01:26:49.640 --> 01:26:52.720
That does not mean that the data itself is false.

01:26:52.720 --> 01:26:57.680
And so as you look through it, I hope you'll find some value as a Christian in synthesizing

01:26:57.680 --> 01:27:02.480
what you know from scripture from the facts that are found within your own body.

01:27:02.480 --> 01:27:06.120
Because those pages are about you too, they're about the stuff that's inside you.

01:27:06.120 --> 01:27:08.840
They're how God made you, they're how God made each of us.

01:27:08.840 --> 01:27:12.000
And that's something that we should know about and we should give thanks for.

01:27:12.000 --> 01:27:13.760
And we cannot deny.

01:27:13.760 --> 01:27:18.560
And so it is because of our love and our thanks for God and how he's done these things

01:27:18.560 --> 01:27:22.840
in our lives, they were doing these episodes because it's a challenging subject.

01:27:22.840 --> 01:27:27.680
And frankly, just discussing race is enough for people to try to dox and destroy you.

01:27:27.680 --> 01:27:32.040
As recording this right now, there's a massive campaign to dox us and to get us expelled

01:27:32.040 --> 01:27:37.200
from our churches for saying these things, which are not hateful, they're simply truthful.

01:27:37.200 --> 01:27:42.480
But the fact that that elicits so much hate, I think is itself that this is a really

01:27:42.480 --> 01:27:46.600
big deal for Satan and his Christians needs to be something that we at least give

01:27:46.600 --> 01:27:50.200
due consideration as well because souls are on the line.

01:27:50.200 --> 01:27:56.600
Yes, as we record, I know there are people who are attempting to harass my pastor.

01:27:56.600 --> 01:28:01.760
But at any rate, to address an issue that I know will come up for some people, there's

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the question of how Marxism plays into this.

01:28:05.360 --> 01:28:10.640
Because I know some will think, well, Marxists deny that race is real.

01:28:10.640 --> 01:28:11.640
And that's true.

01:28:11.640 --> 01:28:12.960
They do that today.

01:28:12.960 --> 01:28:17.000
But you have to realize, as we mentioned in previous episodes, you can go back to the

01:28:17.000 --> 01:28:21.800
immediately previous episode, Marxism is a mercenary ideology.

01:28:21.800 --> 01:28:24.000
It is ends seeking.

01:28:24.000 --> 01:28:31.000
It has no actual core when it comes to principles or anything like that.

01:28:31.000 --> 01:28:35.760
And so there is no standard to which you can hold it.

01:28:35.760 --> 01:28:40.000
It has a goal in mind, and it will do whatever it takes to reach that goal, of course,

01:28:40.000 --> 01:28:41.000
the goal is unobtainable.

01:28:41.000 --> 01:28:46.200
It's a utopia, which for those who know a little bit of Greek know that utopia means not

01:28:46.200 --> 01:28:47.520
a place.

01:28:47.520 --> 01:28:49.880
That's why it's a joke.

01:28:49.880 --> 01:28:55.840
But the early Marxist theorists, including Marx, were all very firmly in the race-realist

01:28:55.840 --> 01:28:58.160
camp.

01:28:58.160 --> 01:29:03.720
I have a number of quotes here I'm looking at from Marx, and he at the very least addresses

01:29:03.720 --> 01:29:08.160
the German, the Jewish, and I will say the African, because I am not going to use the

01:29:08.160 --> 01:29:12.280
word that he did, races.

01:29:12.280 --> 01:29:18.520
And so you have race realism from them in the beginning, and you have an explicit argument

01:29:18.520 --> 01:29:23.720
from the Marxist theorists that you have to destroy these distinctions.

01:29:23.720 --> 01:29:32.240
Because the goal is a creation of an undifferentiated global humanity, without borders, without differences,

01:29:32.240 --> 01:29:37.040
all of one class, of course, is all impossible to achieve.

01:29:37.040 --> 01:29:42.080
But that's the goal, and because it's what we said earlier in the episode, in this episode,

01:29:42.080 --> 01:29:43.360
it's babble.

01:29:43.360 --> 01:29:46.760
They want to remake babble.

01:29:46.760 --> 01:29:50.760
Their goals are wicked, and they will do whatever it takes to get there.

01:29:50.760 --> 01:29:54.640
Early on, they affirm the races, because they will have to affirm the reality in order

01:29:54.640 --> 01:29:57.080
to argue that they need to be destroyed.

01:29:57.080 --> 01:30:01.640
Now that they have made some progress toward the ends of destruction, they argue they don't

01:30:01.640 --> 01:30:08.640
exist, and so you shouldn't do anything that recognizes that you have a racial identity

01:30:08.640 --> 01:30:13.320
that you're a member of a nation, because they want to deny the reality of God's good

01:30:13.320 --> 01:30:20.080
creation and restore the wickedness of babble.

01:30:20.080 --> 01:30:21.080
That is the end goal.

01:30:21.080 --> 01:30:25.320
The end goal is rebellion against God in subversion.

01:30:25.320 --> 01:30:28.600
That is what all of this is, and that is why we are discussing the issue.

01:30:28.600 --> 01:30:34.240
We discuss these issues, because Christians have to know where the battlefield is, and

01:30:34.240 --> 01:30:39.280
what is being fought, the issues over which we are actually fighting.

01:30:39.280 --> 01:30:43.200
Because if you're standing on a different battlefield, where the enemy isn't there,

01:30:43.200 --> 01:30:46.360
it doesn't matter what you do, you've lost.

01:30:46.360 --> 01:30:49.400
Because the enemy is attacking the other side of the city.

01:30:49.400 --> 01:30:52.560
And that is why we will keep harping on issues like this.

01:30:52.560 --> 01:30:57.440
We will keep addressing these issues, because these are the things that are important.

01:30:57.440 --> 01:31:02.560
If they do not get addressed, if Christians do not realize the reality of what is happening,

01:31:02.560 --> 01:31:07.920
of what the enemy is doing, then it doesn't matter how true you believe you are being,

01:31:07.920 --> 01:31:11.160
to scripture, to the faith, to God.

01:31:11.160 --> 01:31:16.560
Because you are not opposing the things that Satan is attacking, you are not defending

01:31:16.560 --> 01:31:19.200
where Satan is attacking you.

01:31:19.200 --> 01:31:21.960
And that is what we want Christians to do.

01:31:21.960 --> 01:31:23.320
The church has to be defended.

01:31:23.320 --> 01:31:26.560
That is one of the duties of a Christian man is to defend the church.

01:31:26.560 --> 01:31:29.200
To defend his family.

01:31:29.200 --> 01:31:33.600
And you cannot do that if you do not understand the enemy, if you do not know when the enemy

01:31:33.600 --> 01:31:36.920
is going to attack and where he is attacking.

01:31:36.920 --> 01:31:39.160
That is why we address these issues.

01:31:39.160 --> 01:31:43.160
We don't address the issue because we're obsessed with it because we find it particularly

01:31:43.160 --> 01:31:45.840
interesting or anything like that.

01:31:45.840 --> 01:31:50.320
If not for the fact that the enemy is attacking here, we probably wouldn't dedicate any time

01:31:50.320 --> 01:31:52.600
to this stuff.

01:31:52.600 --> 01:31:57.560
But because the enemy is attacking it, because Christians are caught on aware, that is why

01:31:57.560 --> 01:32:00.760
we are addressing these issues.

01:32:00.760 --> 01:32:05.560
And so we need you to listen carefully to what it is we're saying and what it is we

01:32:05.560 --> 01:32:07.400
are not saying.

01:32:07.400 --> 01:32:12.120
To read through the materials in the show notes if you need the additional context.

01:32:12.120 --> 01:32:15.440
And yes, if you still have questions, please do send those.

01:32:15.440 --> 01:32:19.480
We are reading them, we do, we know we have a backlog of them, we will address them

01:32:19.480 --> 01:32:23.680
as we have time and as they come up.

01:32:23.680 --> 01:32:29.480
But it is important for Christians to understand what is going on in the world.

01:32:29.480 --> 01:32:35.360
You are not called simply to be as harmless as a dove, but also to be as wise as a serpent.

01:32:35.360 --> 01:32:37.560
And this is part of that.

01:32:37.560 --> 01:32:41.560
So pay careful attention, do your homework and ask questions.