Transcript: Episode 0015

“On Human Race: Foundational Matters”

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00:00:37 – 00:00:39:	Welcome to the Stone Choir Podcast.

00:00:39 – 00:00:41:	I am Corey J. Moller.

00:00:41 – 00:00:43:	And I'm Woe.

00:00:43 – 00:00:49:	Today we are going to be discussing a subject that we have mentioned numerous times in previous

00:00:49 – 00:00:50:	episodes.

00:00:50 – 00:00:51:	That is race.

00:00:51 – 00:00:56:	This week's episode and next week's episode will both be specifically about the subject

00:00:56 – 00:00:57:	of race.

00:00:57 – 00:01:00:	Now before you delete this episode and fast forward and just say I don't want to hear

00:01:00 – 00:01:06:	that crap, I'd like to give a preamble and a plea to those who are listening to please

00:01:06 – 00:01:09:	bear with us before you decide that this is something that's just taxing on your mind

00:01:09 – 00:01:11:	and you don't want to hear it.

00:01:11 – 00:01:12:	It's understandable.

00:01:12 – 00:01:17:	If that was your first response, if you heard me say race and you're like, I'm out of

00:01:17 – 00:01:18:	here.

00:01:18 – 00:01:20:	I don't want to hear any of this stuff.

00:01:20 – 00:01:24:	There are basically three groups of people that you have ever heard discussing race in

00:01:24 – 00:01:26:	your life.

00:01:26 – 00:01:29:	First are the atheists.

00:01:29 – 00:01:30:	They're the scientists.

00:01:30 – 00:01:37:	They're the evolutionists who unfortunately have most of the data about these things, about

00:01:37 – 00:01:38:	the scientific.

00:01:38 – 00:01:44:	And again, as we've mentioned in the past, scientific means it's Gantia from Latin knowledge.

00:01:44 – 00:01:47:	Science is not simply about hypothesizing.

00:01:47 – 00:01:49:	It's not about theories.

00:01:49 – 00:01:51:	Science is fundamentally about facts.

00:01:51 – 00:01:58:	And while the atheist evolutionists, scientists who deal with the subject of race specifically

00:01:58 – 00:02:05:	in terms of genetics often have theories that are contrary to scripture, that doesn't

00:02:05 – 00:02:08:	mean that the underlying data is false.

00:02:08 – 00:02:12:	And so today we're going to be discussing the underlying data and we're going to present

00:02:12 – 00:02:16:	our own conclusions from that data that is consistent with scripture.

00:02:16 – 00:02:19:	So that's the reason you haven't heard this before.

00:02:19 – 00:02:24:	You haven't heard someone who's going to engage with the facts and then willing to look

00:02:24 – 00:02:27:	at scripture and see where they fit together.

00:02:27 – 00:02:33:	Because what a scientist discovers in a lab by looking at DNA is a real thing.

00:02:33 – 00:02:35:	It's actually true.

00:02:35 – 00:02:42:	And if they have evolutionary givens that cause them to apply false theories to reach incorrect

00:02:42 – 00:02:45:	conclusions, that doesn't mean that the data is bad.

00:02:45 – 00:02:47:	It means that their conclusions are bad.

00:02:47 – 00:02:51:	So we're going to discuss the data in our own terms and it's not that far from what

00:02:51 – 00:02:55:	they're saying, but it's probably pretty far from what you've heard before.

00:02:55 – 00:02:58:	So that's group one, the evolutionists.

00:02:58 – 00:03:03:	Group two that you've heard before are basically the Marxists, people who will not really let

00:03:03 – 00:03:06:	you pin them down on what race actually means.

00:03:06 – 00:03:10:	They'll just tell you that they'll basically use it as a weapon.

00:03:10 – 00:03:15:	They're going to swing some aspect of race or racism or whatever they're talking about

00:03:15 – 00:03:22:	specifically as a political cudgel within a conversation to demean one group or to elevate

00:03:22 – 00:03:27:	another group or to set true to groups against each other politically.

00:03:27 – 00:03:28:	And it's a huge turn off.

00:03:28 – 00:03:29:	It's incredibly aggravating.

00:03:29 – 00:03:33:	You've probably been on the receiving end of some of those lies.

00:03:33 – 00:03:37:	And so when you hear race, you think, I'm sick of this crap.

00:03:37 – 00:03:38:	I don't want to hear it anymore.

00:03:38 – 00:03:39:	That's not us.

00:03:39 – 00:03:40:	We're not evolutionists.

00:03:40 – 00:03:41:	We're not Marxists.

00:03:41 – 00:03:44:	We're not using this as a cudgel.

00:03:44 – 00:03:49:	And the third group is, frankly, probably the group that you were in as a Christian who

00:03:49 – 00:03:52:	I'm going to call you naive, but it's not meant to be demeaning.

00:03:52 – 00:03:53:	You're insulting.

00:03:53 – 00:03:54:	You've never looked at this stuff.

00:03:54 – 00:03:55:	You don't care.

00:03:55 – 00:03:56:	You don't think it applies to your life.

00:03:56 – 00:04:05:	And so you haven't delved deeply into the fact that underlie the history of the subject.

00:04:05 – 00:04:10:	The reason that that's a problem is that when a Christian ignores the facts related

00:04:10 – 00:04:14:	to race, as a Christian, you're going to then simply turn to

00:04:14 – 00:04:15:	the scripture.

00:04:15 – 00:04:22:	And so it's very easy for Christians who ignore the facts, look at scripture to reach

00:04:22 – 00:04:27:	and correct conclusions that sound scriptural, but they're nonsense.

00:04:27 – 00:04:32:	And we're doing this episode specifically to try to get people over the hurdle of saying

00:04:32 – 00:04:35:	things like one race, the human race.

00:04:35 – 00:04:41:	As though that precludes the possibility that there are subdivisions among humans.

00:04:41 – 00:04:45:	To say that that doesn't exist is to contradict scripture.

00:04:45 – 00:04:49:	And so this episode is actually going to be broken into two parts.

00:04:49 – 00:04:55:	Today, this first episode on race is specifically going to deal with the scientific basis.

00:04:55 – 00:04:59:	It's going to be an episode that's a little bit unusual from some of the others and that

00:04:59 – 00:05:04:	we don't talk much about scripture, but we're going to talk a fair amount about Genesis,

00:05:04 – 00:05:07:	particularly Genesis 1 through Genesis 11.

00:05:07 – 00:05:11:	So from the creation through the Tower of Babel, and then we'll extrapolate a little bit

00:05:11 – 00:05:17:	from then more into recorded human history as we get records from elsewhere in archeological

00:05:17 – 00:05:18:	evidence.

00:05:18 – 00:05:22:	But we're not going to rely very heavily on scripture.

00:05:22 – 00:05:29:	And in particular, we're not going to address any of the satirological disputes of the notions

00:05:29 – 00:05:33:	of race, of the claim of race, of the fact of race.

00:05:33 – 00:05:40:	So if as we're going along, you have in mind Galatians 3.28, which said that there's neither

00:05:40 – 00:05:42:	Jew nor Greek, there's neither slave, nor free.

00:05:42 – 00:05:48:	There is no male and female for all in one in Christ Jesus.

00:05:48 – 00:05:54:	I'm going to ask you for the sake of argument to simply set that aside.

00:05:54 – 00:05:56:	We're going to address it in the second episode.

00:05:56 – 00:05:58:	We're going to address it in detail.

00:05:58 – 00:05:59:	That could be an episode all by itself.

00:05:59 – 00:06:04:	We could do multiple episodes just on Galatians 3.28.

00:06:04 – 00:06:05:	We're not going to address it today.

00:06:05 – 00:06:12:	So if as we go along, you find yourself shouting at your phone or whatever, there's neither

00:06:12 – 00:06:14:	Jew nor Greek, we're going to get to that.

00:06:14 – 00:06:17:	That's not remotely what that passage means.

00:06:17 – 00:06:20:	It's not a refutation of what we're saying in this episode.

00:06:20 – 00:06:25:	So that's basically just a preamble as a plea to hear the whole thing out before you

00:06:25 – 00:06:29:	decide that we fall into one of the first two buckets of either the evolutionists or

00:06:29 – 00:06:34:	the Marxists, which is what some people online, particularly a number of pastors have accused

00:06:34 – 00:06:40:	us of, mainly to discredit us and say that we're hateful and we're not Christian at all.

00:06:40 – 00:06:43:	Cory and I fall into a fourth group.

00:06:43 – 00:06:48:	Men that have looked at this stuff have studied it because we see that the world cares.

00:06:48 – 00:06:50:	We see that Satan cares.

00:06:50 – 00:06:56:	You as a Christian may not think their race has anything to do with your life or with salvation

00:06:56 – 00:07:01:	or with how God operates in the world, Satan feels differently.

00:07:01 – 00:07:04:	And you can tell that even right this moment before you've heard anything else we have

00:07:04 – 00:07:09:	to say in any of our arguments, you can tell the Satan cares because you can't get away

00:07:09 – 00:07:11:	from this damn subject.

00:07:11 – 00:07:17:	That tells you that Satan has a skin in the game when it comes to the subject of race.

00:07:17 – 00:07:22:	Now the hurdle that we're hoping to get people over is the idea that talking about it

00:07:22 – 00:07:24:	at all is evil.

00:07:24 – 00:07:26:	We obviously don't believe that or we would be talking about it.

00:07:26 – 00:07:31:	If we believe that we were saying something evil, you know, if we were Christians we would

00:07:31 – 00:07:32:	shut our mouths.

00:07:32 – 00:07:33:	We wouldn't say it.

00:07:33 – 00:07:37:	So I simply ask for you to bear with us for this episode and the next episode.

00:07:37 – 00:07:42:	And if at the end of that you find that we have been evolutionists and Marxists all along,

00:07:42 – 00:07:43:	that's fine.

00:07:43 – 00:07:44:	You can reach that conclusion.

00:07:44 – 00:07:46:	Just hear our argument first.

00:07:46 – 00:07:52:	So with that out of the way, we're going to begin with, as I mentioned, the first fundamental

00:07:52 – 00:07:56:	misconception that is widely applied among Christians.

00:07:56 – 00:08:00:	And that is that there is one race, the human race.

00:08:00 – 00:08:05:	And so the argument that we often hear from Christians when it comes to race as stated

00:08:05 – 00:08:08:	as one race, the human race.

00:08:08 – 00:08:13:	And the underlying argument for that is that because we are all ultimately descended from

00:08:13 – 00:08:18:	Adam, we are all of the race of Adam.

00:08:18 – 00:08:23:	The problem with that statement is that it is both true and false.

00:08:23 – 00:08:29:	It is true because the speak of men as the race of Adam is accurate.

00:08:29 – 00:08:35:	But to then conclude from that, that all men are of the same race is to equivocate with

00:08:35 – 00:08:38:	regard to the term race.

00:08:38 – 00:08:47:	Race can refer to various levels in the hierarchy in the ancestry of a particular life form.

00:08:47 – 00:08:53:	And so for instance, a good example would be you can speak of the race of dogs, usually

00:08:53 – 00:08:54:	for dogs.

00:08:54 – 00:08:58:	Yes, we call them breed instead, but it's the same thing, same concept here.

00:08:58 – 00:09:03:	If you speak of the breed of golden retriever, you are speaking of something more specific

00:09:03 – 00:09:05:	than just dog.

00:09:05 – 00:09:06:	They're all dogs.

00:09:06 – 00:09:13:	So a golden retriever, a pomeranian, a rot-viler, these are all dogs.

00:09:13 – 00:09:15:	But they are different breeds of dog.

00:09:15 – 00:09:23:	The same for humans, you can speak of the race of Adam, human beings as being one species,

00:09:23 – 00:09:30:	because we are in fact one species by any reasonable definition of that term, all of humanity, one

00:09:30 – 00:09:33:	species, the race of Adam.

00:09:33 – 00:09:41:	But we have over time, according to God's good ordering of creation, become separate

00:09:41 – 00:09:44:	races distinct from each other.

00:09:44 – 00:09:49:	Because as we moved, we adapted to the areas where we started to live.

00:09:49 – 00:09:50:	God designed it that way.

00:09:50 – 00:09:55:	It's very clear, He gave us the order, be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue

00:09:55 – 00:09:56:	it.

00:09:56 – 00:09:57:	That was what we were supposed to do.

00:09:57 – 00:10:00:	Different groups moved to different areas.

00:10:00 – 00:10:07:	And so as that happened, you have the creation of the different races as they exist today.

00:10:07 – 00:10:14:	Now of course, the real genesis of this is in Genesis, is right after the flood.

00:10:14 – 00:10:21:	And the reason we have a real break there is because you have obviously, from Adam and

00:10:21 – 00:10:24:	Eve, up into the time of the flood.

00:10:24 – 00:10:28:	You have man proliferating over the face of the earth, there are various genetic differences

00:10:28 – 00:10:29:	over time.

00:10:29 – 00:10:33:	We don't know as much about the anti-deluvians as we do about those who've come after

00:10:33 – 00:10:40:	the flood, of course, that would be us in the latter category, but you have a bottleneck.

00:10:40 – 00:10:46:	And that bottleneck is Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives.

00:10:46 – 00:10:49:	We don't know the genealogy of their wives.

00:10:49 – 00:10:56:	Much of the genetic variation we see today probably came from the wives of Noah's sons,

00:10:56 – 00:11:01:	because obviously Noah's sons very closely genetically related.

00:11:01 – 00:11:04:	The wives, not necessarily so closely related.

00:11:04 – 00:11:07:	And they spread out after they got off the arc.

00:11:07 – 00:11:14:	The arc came to land in Mount Ararat, which our best guess is Eastern Turkey, or maybe

00:11:14 – 00:11:17:	a little over the border of Turkey, right in that area.

00:11:17 – 00:11:19:	And that bears out.

00:11:19 – 00:11:25:	If you look at the DNA of the various human groups, if you look at how related we are into

00:11:25 – 00:11:30:	whom we're related, you can see that we spread out from basically Turkey.

00:11:30 – 00:11:35:	The old out of Africa hypothesis was not wildly wrong.

00:11:35 – 00:11:41:	It was off by several thousand miles, because the arc came to land in roughly modern day

00:11:41 – 00:11:43:	Turkey.

00:11:43 – 00:11:46:	Europeans are descended from J-5th.

00:11:46 – 00:11:50:	J-5th moved north and west, filled Europe.

00:11:50 – 00:11:55:	Eventually some became sailors and also filled the southern end of the Mediterranean, which

00:11:55 – 00:11:58:	would be North Africa.

00:11:58 – 00:12:04:	The Shemites stayed in the Middle East and also moved eastward into what is today Asia,

00:12:04 – 00:12:10:	and the Hamites moved south through Egypt and then into Africa.

00:12:10 – 00:12:15:	Probably assumed that the Sahara was not quite as big at the time, so it was more passable.

00:12:15 – 00:12:19:	And that is how you end up with the modern racial groups.

00:12:19 – 00:12:25:	They spread out from Noah's Ark, descended from the three patriarchs, and so you have essentially

00:12:25 – 00:12:31:	three major groupings of human beings, major divisions of human races.

00:12:31 – 00:12:36:	Within that, yes, you have smaller divisions to go back again to the term of race and what

00:12:36 – 00:12:40:	it means going from the smallest up to the greatest.

00:12:40 – 00:12:44:	You could speak of the race of Germans.

00:12:44 – 00:12:48:	Then you could speak of the Germanic race, which would include the English and the Dutch

00:12:48 – 00:12:49:	and others.

00:12:49 – 00:12:54:	Then you could speak of the japhithic race, which would be Europeans, descended from J-5th.

00:12:54 – 00:13:00:	Then you could speak of either Noah or Adamic race, which would be all men.

00:13:00 – 00:13:05:	And so it's important to note how the term is being used and not to equivocate, not to

00:13:05 – 00:13:12:	conflate the different senses of this term, because that is often deliberately misleading,

00:13:12 – 00:13:19:	but in many cases for Christians, it is unintentionally misleading because there is a use of a term

00:13:19 – 00:13:21:	as if it were univocal when it is not.

00:13:21 – 00:13:28:	I think one of the toughest things that Christians have to face when looking seriously at the

00:13:28 – 00:13:35:	data about these matters is that, as I said, group one, the atheists and the evolutionists

00:13:35 – 00:13:39:	who do most of the research, who control most of the publication.

00:13:39 – 00:13:43:	Historically, they haven't lied about the data, although that's happening today just

00:13:43 – 00:13:45:	in the last five and ten years.

00:13:45 – 00:13:50:	There's more deliberate fudging of the data, specifically to accord with what Christians

00:13:50 – 00:13:54:	claim as their own morality to say one race, the human race.

00:13:54 – 00:13:58:	Today, the scientists are now saying the same thing, and they're altering their data to

00:13:58 – 00:14:03:	achieve that desired outcome when the data doesn't support it.

00:14:03 – 00:14:09:	So as you delve into this, it's a real challenge because you're forced to listen to people

00:14:09 – 00:14:14:	who are going to reach incorrect conclusions based on their faulty givens.

00:14:14 – 00:14:19:	And most people are not really equipped to sort the good from the bad.

00:14:19 – 00:14:25:	To look at data that itself is sound is solid, like for example, genetic data that bears

00:14:25 – 00:14:33:	out what Cori just said about three different racial groups that are present in genetic data.

00:14:33 – 00:14:39:	You can look at someone's genes and determine, based on statistical analysis, which of those

00:14:39 – 00:14:41:	major buckets they fall into.

00:14:41 – 00:14:46:	And in fact, with a reasonable probability, which of the smaller buckets they fall into,

00:14:46 – 00:14:51:	it's not 100% certain, but even when it's off by a bit, it's not going to be off by much.

00:14:51 – 00:14:57:	You're not going to look at the DNA of a German in Mistake him for a gonon.

00:14:57 – 00:14:59:	You will mistake him for a Frenchman.

00:14:59 – 00:15:02:	You could mistake him for an Englishman.

00:15:02 – 00:15:04:	You're probably not going to mistake him for a Bosnian.

00:15:04 – 00:15:09:	And again, you're not going to mistake him as Japanese, even at the genetic level.

00:15:09 – 00:15:10:	You have no idea where it came from.

00:15:10 – 00:15:15:	It's just it's a blood sample that from what you extracted DNA or epithelial wear, wherever

00:15:15 – 00:15:20:	you get your DNA sample, when you profile it, this stuff is present.

00:15:20 – 00:15:24:	And so you don't need to be a Christian to look at the data.

00:15:24 – 00:15:31:	And that's a hard part of this conversation because as I said, the evolutionary atheists

00:15:31 – 00:15:37:	who are crunching the numbers will then reach evolutionary atheist conclusions.

00:15:37 – 00:15:42:	And for a Christian, when you're looking at it, you're faced with sorting the true

00:15:42 – 00:15:48:	data from the false conclusions and the temptation is just to say, ah, this is all crap.

00:15:48 – 00:15:54:	Because what you're looking at is a scientist who will say that the universe is 14 billion

00:15:54 – 00:15:58:	years old, earth is four and a half billion years old.

00:15:58 – 00:16:04:	Life is a couple billion years old and you had proteins that somehow became cells and

00:16:04 – 00:16:08:	then a cell became a fish and then a fish became a monkey and a monkey became a man and

00:16:08 – 00:16:10:	a man became a race of men.

00:16:10 – 00:16:14:	And as a Christian, you know that almost all of that is nonsense.

00:16:14 – 00:16:19:	The earth is 6,000 years old and all the DNA in our bodies comes from Adam and comes

00:16:19 – 00:16:23:	from Noah in the wives of Noah's sons.

00:16:23 – 00:16:26:	That's a scriptural fact.

00:16:26 – 00:16:28:	It's also a scientific fact.

00:16:28 – 00:16:32:	What the scientists get wrong are the time frames that are involved.

00:16:32 – 00:16:36:	And so when you're looking at the raw data, you're going to find a bunch of erroneous

00:16:36 – 00:16:38:	conclusions.

00:16:38 – 00:16:44:	And I think that for a lot of people, we're doing this episode in the hope that you can

00:16:44 – 00:16:52:	at least take a basis for being able to understand these questions in a Christian fashion that

00:16:52 – 00:16:56:	is not at odds with the scientific facts.

00:16:56 – 00:17:00:	If at the end of this you just throw up your hands and say, I have no idea what's going

00:17:00 – 00:17:01:	on.

00:17:01 – 00:17:03:	I can't make heads or tails out of it.

00:17:03 – 00:17:04:	Honestly that's okay.

00:17:04 – 00:17:08:	Not everyone is equipped to be able to actually wrap their heads around this stuff.

00:17:08 – 00:17:13:	What I would say to you is that if you personally get to the end of what we're saying and say,

00:17:13 – 00:17:19:	I can't make heads or tails of it, that's fine, but you should in the future when you

00:17:19 – 00:17:23:	hear discussions of race refrain from participating.

00:17:23 – 00:17:28:	Because what you're saying is I don't know enough to even be able to reach conclusion.

00:17:28 – 00:17:32:	What we're trying to say is that there are conclusions that can be reached that are consistent

00:17:32 – 00:17:35:	with Scripture that are also consistent with the facts.

00:17:35 – 00:17:36:	Because guess what?

00:17:36 – 00:17:38:	That's what the truth means.

00:17:38 – 00:17:43:	The truth from God, the truth that is revealed in Scripture and the truth that is revealed

00:17:43 – 00:17:46:	in creation are all of one spirit.

00:17:46 – 00:17:48:	It's all the same thing.

00:17:48 – 00:17:52:	And the fact that there are scientists who are atheists who come along and butcher the

00:17:52 – 00:17:55:	facts of creation doesn't alter creation.

00:17:55 – 00:17:58:	It just means that they're telling lies about it.

00:17:58 – 00:18:02:	And so as we discuss this, it's important to tease those out.

00:18:02 – 00:18:06:	So as Corey said, everything became with Adam, began with Adam.

00:18:06 – 00:18:12:	All of the genes in every single human being today came from within Adam's body.

00:18:12 – 00:18:14:	Eve was created from Adam.

00:18:14 – 00:18:18:	We have no reason to believe that there is any portion of Eve that did not come directly

00:18:18 – 00:18:19:	from him.

00:18:19 – 00:18:24:	In fact, I would say it is arguably a heresy to say that there is a single cell in her

00:18:24 – 00:18:27:	body that was not derived from Adam.

00:18:27 – 00:18:34:	Now it's important to note when as we go down this path that when we're talking about

00:18:34 – 00:18:39:	inheritance and we're talking about relation, you get half of your DNA from your father and

00:18:39 – 00:18:42:	half of your DNA from your mother.

00:18:42 – 00:18:48:	What that implies is that half of your father's DNA is not inside you because the other half

00:18:48 – 00:18:49:	came from your mother.

00:18:49 – 00:18:51:	You have 46 chromosomes.

00:18:51 – 00:18:53:	You get 23 from each of them.

00:18:53 – 00:18:59:	As you go back generationally, you know, when you go back generations or powers of two,

00:18:59 – 00:19:04:	so one generation back means that 50, 50, that's one half.

00:19:04 – 00:19:08:	Two generations back is one quarter, so 25%.

00:19:08 – 00:19:13:	If you go back seven generations, you're less than one percent because two to the seventh

00:19:13 – 00:19:15:	is 128.

00:19:15 – 00:19:22:	So you're looking at one 128th of the available genetic data from your great, great, great,

00:19:22 – 00:19:26:	great grandfather in your own body.

00:19:26 – 00:19:31:	What that means is that there's a 50, 50 chance that you'll have a shot of having some

00:19:31 – 00:19:33:	of their DNA in you.

00:19:33 – 00:19:36:	Now this is important for two reasons.

00:19:36 – 00:19:42:	One, it's possible if you go back far enough that you may not have any of the specific genes

00:19:42 – 00:19:44:	from one of your own ancestors.

00:19:44 – 00:19:45:	This is very common.

00:19:45 – 00:19:48:	It's something that shows up when genetic analysis is being done.

00:19:48 – 00:19:53:	If you go back not too many generations, it's possible simply to lose the thread of

00:19:53 – 00:19:58:	relation, not because you're not related to them, but just that there were no specific

00:19:58 – 00:20:01:	genes coming from them.

00:20:01 – 00:20:07:	On the other hand, the second vital point is that all humans are approximately something

00:20:07 – 00:20:12:	like 99.2, 99.5% the same genetically.

00:20:12 – 00:20:16:	This is one of the arguments that's made for one race, the human race, saying all the

00:20:16 – 00:20:22:	genetic variation among various human groups is in that last half percent.

00:20:22 – 00:20:29:	The reason that's misleading is that chimpanzees are about 98.8% the same as human DNA, which

00:20:29 – 00:20:35:	is why the evolutionary scientists will say fish monkey man race because they see the similarity

00:20:35 – 00:20:40:	between the monkey and the man and say, well, clearly they came from the same place.

00:20:40 – 00:20:41:	It's Christians we know that's not the case.

00:20:41 – 00:20:48:	And even more ridiculously, dogs are 94%.

00:20:48 – 00:20:56:	Is it one race, the mammal race, cats are 90% and to give people an idea of how little

00:20:56 – 00:21:03:	DNA varies even across species, fruit flies are 60% the same as human beings.

00:21:03 – 00:21:09:	So it does not take a huge difference in order to, well, it doesn't take a huge difference

00:21:09 – 00:21:15:	genetically in order to have a significant difference phenotypically, which is the expression

00:21:15 – 00:21:17:	of course of the genotype.

00:21:17 – 00:21:18:	Yep.

00:21:18 – 00:21:22:	In fact, in some cases for humans, it can be as little as one base pair.

00:21:22 – 00:21:24:	Yes.

00:21:24 – 00:21:29:	What that tells us is that God likes patterns, He likes repetition.

00:21:29 – 00:21:31:	We see this everywhere in the universe.

00:21:31 – 00:21:33:	Galaxies all have similar structures.

00:21:33 – 00:21:37:	Galaxies all have different structures too, but there are variations on a theme.

00:21:38 – 00:21:43:	It's just like Beethoven or Bach, when they're writing their magnificent works, they will

00:21:43 – 00:21:49:	begin with a phrase and then they'll build it and they'll evolve it and they'll grow it

00:21:49 – 00:21:54:	into something magnificent and then they'll start all over again and they'll do the same

00:21:54 – 00:21:59:	sort of process and reach something that begins with the same basic theme, the same phrase,

00:21:59 – 00:22:01:	but it takes it in a very different direction.

00:22:01 – 00:22:05:	But you'll hear those same echoes throughout the entire piece.

00:22:05 – 00:22:08:	That's a reflection of what God does in creation.

00:22:08 – 00:22:13:	So the fact that monkeys are 98.8%, the same as humans, doesn't mean that we're related

00:22:13 – 00:22:16:	in the sense that we have a common ancestor.

00:22:16 – 00:22:20:	It means that we're related by the fact that we have the same creator and God created

00:22:20 – 00:22:26:	mammals in one sense and then He created lobsters and He created all these weird things

00:22:26 – 00:22:29:	to have all these varieties and variations.

00:22:29 – 00:22:37:	It's according to God's good creation and we can say that Chihuahua and a healer are

00:22:37 – 00:22:42:	subspecies, we're terrified to say that human races are subspecies.

00:22:42 – 00:22:47:	We completely preclude the idea of subspecies when talking about human beings.

00:22:47 – 00:22:56:	In part because of the implications, does it mean that an African somehow has a different

00:22:56 – 00:23:00:	degree of value than a European or an Asian?

00:23:00 – 00:23:02:	That's a moral question.

00:23:02 – 00:23:06:	And the answer before God is no, that's never going to be an argument.

00:23:06 – 00:23:09:	You're going to hear from either of us.

00:23:09 – 00:23:11:	Jesus died for all homo sapiens.

00:23:11 – 00:23:14:	Jesus died for every descendant of Adam.

00:23:14 – 00:23:16:	That's all of us.

00:23:16 – 00:23:20:	Regardless of any of these differences that we're talking about in these episodes, we will

00:23:20 – 00:23:25:	never make any argument that says, well, this man is different than from this man.

00:23:25 – 00:23:29:	Or God cares about this man and doesn't care about this man.

00:23:29 – 00:23:34:	That's absolutely the polar opposite of why we're talking about it in the first place.

00:23:34 – 00:23:41:	We're talking about it because Satan is using this as a wedge to divide Christ's church

00:23:41 – 00:23:45:	and to divide all of humanity in ways that are unnatural.

00:23:45 – 00:23:48:	Now there are natural divisions and that is what race is.

00:23:48 – 00:23:50:	Race is a natural division.

00:23:50 – 00:23:54:	As you look from Babel, what was the story of Babel?

00:23:54 – 00:23:58:	The people who all share the common language when they were told by God be fruitful and

00:23:58 – 00:24:03:	multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, they said, no, we're not going anywhere.

00:24:03 – 00:24:06:	We're going to build a tower that's going to be a monument to our own greatness.

00:24:06 – 00:24:11:	It's going to keep us together in this place and we will be as God.

00:24:11 – 00:24:17:	We will be magnificent and everyone will respect us for how unified we are.

00:24:17 – 00:24:19:	That is the spirit of this age.

00:24:19 – 00:24:23:	One race, the human race is the cry of Babel.

00:24:23 – 00:24:28:	God was so infuriated at the evil of Babel that he came down to earth and he deliberately

00:24:28 – 00:24:34:	confused the languages of men so that they couldn't talk to each other anymore.

00:24:34 – 00:24:37:	Suddenly one man could not speak to another at all.

00:24:37 – 00:24:42:	You have one guy speaking proto-traumatic and another guy speaking proto-Japanese.

00:24:42 – 00:24:43:	They're aliens to each other.

00:24:43 – 00:24:46:	Even though by blood they're related, God said, you know what?

00:24:46 – 00:24:47:	You didn't go your separate ways.

00:24:47 – 00:24:51:	I'm going to separate you because you're never going to be able to communicate again.

00:24:51 – 00:24:52:	They did.

00:24:52 – 00:24:58:	That was what it finally took was the division of language to separate groups which were

00:24:58 – 00:25:04:	then still fairly closely related because they'd only recently come off the ark.

00:25:04 – 00:25:07:	We know how many generations, but it wasn't very long.

00:25:07 – 00:25:13:	Those people were scattered across the face of the earth by God because they were crying

00:25:13 – 00:25:15:	one race, the human race.

00:25:15 – 00:25:16:	God said, this is evil.

00:25:16 – 00:25:18:	I am stopping it now.

00:25:18 – 00:25:22:	That's what did he do according to Acts 1726.

00:25:22 – 00:25:27:	He appointed the boundaries of men and the boundaries of the dwelling places and the numbers

00:25:27 – 00:25:28:	of their days.

00:25:28 – 00:25:31:	He said, you're going to go here and you're going to go there.

00:25:31 – 00:25:37:	As I mentioned before, you can look at a topographical map of Europe and you can see Norway

00:25:37 – 00:25:41:	Sweden and Finland from space in the topography.

00:25:41 – 00:25:47:	You can see the mountain range that divide the Norsemen from the suite.

00:25:47 – 00:25:52:	You can see the mountain range that divides the Portuguese from the Spanish.

00:25:52 – 00:25:58:	If you just look at a political map of Portugal in Spain, why is that little sliver there

00:25:58 – 00:25:59:	as a separate country?

00:25:59 – 00:26:00:	Never made any sense to me.

00:26:00 – 00:26:05:	I was many years old when I finally saw this topographical map and like, holy crap,

00:26:05 – 00:26:07:	I see Portugal.

00:26:07 – 00:26:08:	Now God did that.

00:26:08 – 00:26:11:	God made those mountain ranges and He sent men to those places.

00:26:11 – 00:26:14:	And what happened when they went to those places?

00:26:14 – 00:26:16:	They became isolated.

00:26:16 – 00:26:20:	They were isolated by language as God ordained.

00:26:20 – 00:26:27:	And then through the process of interbreeding and intermarrying, the genetic content in their

00:26:27 – 00:26:29:	bodies became winnowed.

00:26:29 – 00:26:34:	So the men who were descended from Adam and from Noah who went to Norway got more and more

00:26:34 – 00:26:40:	pale because the genes for them to lose the expression of formalinan that would cause

00:26:40 – 00:26:46:	them to reject most vitamin D in their skins went away.

00:26:46 – 00:26:50:	Now a Norseman who moves to the equator is not going to suddenly turn black again.

00:26:50 – 00:26:56:	It was a one way trip just as you cannot take a chihuahua and turn him back into a wolf.

00:26:56 – 00:27:02:	Even though I think that personally I think it's arguable that if you look at the species

00:27:02 – 00:27:08:	that were on the ark, I don't think that you had a wolf in a coyote and a German shepherd,

00:27:08 – 00:27:10:	even though those all look very similar.

00:27:10 – 00:27:15:	They all have a same common ancestor and see that the evolutionist will tell you that

00:27:15 – 00:27:19:	ancestor is tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of years in the past.

00:27:19 – 00:27:23:	The Christian will say, well the earth is about 6,000 years old so that doesn't make sense.

00:27:23 – 00:27:28:	And all the mammals were killed except for those that were two by two on the ark.

00:27:28 – 00:27:34:	So 4,500 years ago we have this choke point where all the genes of all the creatures that

00:27:34 – 00:27:38:	live on land or fly were placed on the ark.

00:27:38 – 00:27:43:	Personally I believe that there was a wolf or a proto wolf on the ark and that all of

00:27:43 – 00:27:48:	the speciation of the wolf, the coyote, the dog, the fox.

00:27:48 – 00:27:55:	Everything downstream from the wolf classification genetically came from that pair.

00:27:55 – 00:27:59:	And as they went their separate ways and they went to their separate areas where God

00:27:59 – 00:28:03:	had ordained for the Arctic fox to live here and the desert fox to live here.

00:28:03 – 00:28:09:	They're both foxes but they're very differently equipped genetically and human beings work

00:28:10 – 00:28:11:	the same way.

00:28:11 – 00:28:14:	Not that we're foxes, not that we're dogs but that we're creatures.

00:28:14 – 00:28:20:	That we're God's creatures and in his infinite wisdom he gave Adam the genetic material to

00:28:20 – 00:28:22:	fill the entire earth.

00:28:22 – 00:28:27:	So when we talk about race it is not a denial of creation.

00:28:27 – 00:28:33:	It's not a denial of the sixth day creation or of the 6,000 year history of earth.

00:28:33 – 00:28:37:	And it's not to say that human beings are just another animal like all the rest but we

00:28:37 – 00:28:42:	do behave in similar ways because we're all made from the same stuff.

00:28:42 – 00:28:46:	And the genes that God gave us work in the same ways.

00:28:46 – 00:28:50:	And one of the values of looking at things like dogs is because they have much shorter

00:28:50 – 00:28:53:	gestational periods.

00:28:53 – 00:28:59:	You can get most of the dog species subspecies today didn't exist 200 years ago.

00:28:59 – 00:29:03:	They all have a common ancestor that's almost in living memory.

00:29:03 – 00:29:08:	If you get a really old person who remembers another really old person from their family

00:29:08 – 00:29:14:	they can probably that person would be able to remember the ancestor of all the dogs today

00:29:14 – 00:29:18:	even though that person 200 years ago if he looked at a chihuahua and looked at the

00:29:18 – 00:29:23:	same Bernard like what is this stuff I have no idea looks like nothing I've ever seen.

00:29:23 – 00:29:26:	Genetically they all came from the same place.

00:29:26 – 00:29:30:	We're talking about the same thing with people and it's not a denial of humanity and it's

00:29:30 – 00:29:35:	not a denial of salvation it's saying that this is how God has chosen to work in the

00:29:35 – 00:29:43:	last 4500 years since the flood in human lives and that's one of the big hurdles because

00:29:43 – 00:29:48:	the data sounds atheist but the conclusions are entirely consistent with scripture and

00:29:48 – 00:29:52:	they're also entirely consistent with observable reality.

00:29:52 – 00:29:55:	And that's something that I hope people will take away from this discussion is that we're

00:29:55 – 00:30:01:	not talking about theories, we're not talking about hypotheses, we're talking about measurable

00:30:01 – 00:30:05:	discernible facts and ones that actually have consequences and we'll deal with those

00:30:05 – 00:30:10:	consequences in future episodes but first we need to establish that this stuff is actually

00:30:10 – 00:30:15:	real and it's not a threat to your faith to look at it as a real thing.

00:30:15 – 00:30:23:	In fact, the real denial of the faith comes from denying these things because if you

00:30:23 – 00:30:29:	deny the reality of human race or these distinctions, these differences, what God did in time

00:30:29 – 00:30:34:	in the physical world, really that's a form of nosticism because you are denying the reality

00:30:34 – 00:30:41:	of the flesh and so that is a violation of the first article of the creed.

00:30:41 – 00:30:46:	But I think possibly this is a good time to do just a quick biology lesson to give those

00:30:46 – 00:30:52:	who haven't had biology in a while or perhaps never took it, a bit of the fundamentals,

00:30:52 – 00:30:56:	the mechanics here, how this actually works and plays out in reality.

00:30:56 – 00:31:00:	And so there are some terms it is important to know.

00:31:00 – 00:31:05:	I would hope people are familiar with a few of the terms here but one in particular that

00:31:05 – 00:31:08:	is important is haplogroup.

00:31:08 – 00:31:13:	And a haplogroup is basically a group of people who share a common ancestor.

00:31:13 – 00:31:19:	It's defined as a certain number of alleles that tend to be inherited together, alleles

00:31:19 – 00:31:21:	being a different form of a gene.

00:31:21 – 00:31:26:	You can have different forms of the same gene if it's a different one that's an allele.

00:31:26 – 00:31:33:	And so you can look at a map of haplogroups and you can see race on that map.

00:31:33 – 00:31:40:	But two of the most important types of haplogroups and we'll put some images of these in the

00:31:40 – 00:31:47:	show notes would be according to mitochondrial DNA and according to Y chromosome DNA.

00:31:47 – 00:31:53:	And the reason that these two are important is because mitochondrial DNA is inherited

00:31:53 – 00:31:55:	from the mother alone.

00:31:55 – 00:31:58:	You do not get your mitochondrial DNA from your father.

00:31:58 – 00:32:05:	You get it from your mother because the mitochondrial DNA that comes from the sperm is destroyed in

00:32:05 – 00:32:07:	the ovum it is not passed on.

00:32:07 – 00:32:10:	Only the mitochondrial DNA from the mother is passed on.

00:32:10 – 00:32:12:	And so we have a mitochondrial eve.

00:32:12 – 00:32:20:	There is a woman at some point in history from whom all mitochondrial DNA comes.

00:32:20 – 00:32:25:	And of course that in the Christian case is eve is why she's called mitochondrial eve.

00:32:25 – 00:32:31:	Now mitochondrial DNA can mutate over time because really any DNA can mutate over time.

00:32:31 – 00:32:34:	Not all mutations are beneficial, most are harmful.

00:32:34 – 00:32:42:	But some of the mutations are either neutral or they don't harm the organism in such a way

00:32:42 – 00:32:43:	that it doesn't carry on.

00:32:43 – 00:32:46:	And so that will carry on to successive generations.

00:32:46 – 00:32:49:	That's the sort of mutation that does not terminate a line.

00:32:49 – 00:32:51:	It will continue.

00:32:51 – 00:32:54:	Mitochondrial DNA is very stable.

00:32:54 – 00:32:58:	We aren't certain how stable yet, but there are some studies that estimate that it mutates

00:32:58 – 00:33:01:	as infrequently as once every 8,000 years.

00:33:01 – 00:33:05:	Now of course, being Christians again, we know the earth is about 6,000 years old.

00:33:05 – 00:33:10:	This is the year of our Lord 6,027 give or take two or three years.

00:33:10 – 00:33:16:	So they're probably off by a little bit on the rate of mutation, but the point is that

00:33:16 – 00:33:17:	it is very stable.

00:33:17 – 00:33:20:	There's very little mutation in mitochondrial DNA.

00:33:20 – 00:33:25:	The other group is Y chromosome DNA.

00:33:25 – 00:33:31:	Hopefully those who've taken biology remember that women have two X chromosomes and men

00:33:31 – 00:33:33:	have an X and a Y chromosome.

00:33:33 – 00:33:38:	And so obviously you have to inherit your Y chromosome from your father.

00:33:38 – 00:33:41:	Y chromosomes do not really recombine.

00:33:41 – 00:33:47:	And now what recombining is, when you get your genetic information, you get half from

00:33:47 – 00:33:53:	your mother and half from your father, the chromosomes that match.

00:33:53 – 00:33:58:	So if it's the same chromosome, chromosome 5 from each parent, whatever it happens to be,

00:33:58 – 00:34:01:	there can be recombination where DNA can get swapped back and forth.

00:34:01 – 00:34:07:	And that's some of how you get genetic variance in populations over time is recombination.

00:34:07 – 00:34:11:	The Y chromosome recombines very little.

00:34:11 – 00:34:15:	It only recombines on a tail where it matches with the X chromosome that you receive from

00:34:15 – 00:34:21:	the mother, 95% of the Y chromosome does not recombine.

00:34:21 – 00:34:28:	And so you wind up having a relative stability in inheritable Y chromosome DNA over time.

00:34:28 – 00:34:33:	And so you can define human groups according to the Y chromosome because you can look back

00:34:33 – 00:34:39:	to a common male ancestor from whom this population inherited that chromosome.

00:34:39 – 00:34:46:	However, the Y chromosome mutates much more frequently, much more quickly than mitochondrial

00:34:46 – 00:34:48:	DNA.

00:34:48 – 00:34:52:	You get a mutation every generation or so in the Y chromosome.

00:34:52 – 00:34:55:	Now it's a small mutation.

00:34:55 – 00:34:56:	But this can be tracked over time.

00:34:56 – 00:35:02:	What that means is you can tell how groups split from each other over time as human being

00:35:02 – 00:35:05:	spread out over the surface of the earth.

00:35:05 – 00:35:10:	And so if you look at these two maps, together you can pretty much tell exactly where the

00:35:10 – 00:35:17:	races are delineated, simply on the basis of Y chromosome haplogroups and mitochondrial

00:35:17 – 00:35:19:	DNA haplogroups.

00:35:19 – 00:35:22:	And again, we will put the images of this in the show notes.

00:35:22 – 00:35:27:	You can literally look at it and go, I can see the jaffa thites on here.

00:35:27 – 00:35:28:	I can see the hamites on here.

00:35:28 – 00:35:30:	I can see the shemites on here.

00:35:30 – 00:35:36:	I can see Germanic Europe versus Slavic Europe versus Celtic Europe.

00:35:36 – 00:35:40:	These are real things that can be seen and tested in the real world.

00:35:40 – 00:35:47:	And they do not disagree with our faith whatsoever because they actually prove, again, it's

00:35:47 – 00:35:52:	further proof of the truth of the scriptures because you can see the groups that spread

00:35:52 – 00:35:55:	out from the ark.

00:35:55 – 00:35:59:	You can actually see a confirmation of what scripture says playing out in the real world

00:35:59 – 00:36:02:	as God designed it.

00:36:02 – 00:36:06:	We mentioned the show notes a lot and I hope that you're checking those every week.

00:36:06 – 00:36:09:	I hope you're clicking through the URL to look.

00:36:09 – 00:36:11:	This is a podcast that has homework.

00:36:11 – 00:36:16:	Now, you don't need to go look at the stuff in order to like follow up on future episodes.

00:36:16 – 00:36:19:	So it's not, it's a homework that's created.

00:36:19 – 00:36:23:	But in some cases, at least half of the episode isn't anything that we say, but it's a stuff

00:36:23 – 00:36:24:	that we like.

00:36:24 – 00:36:30:	So if you get value out of what we're saying, this episode and the next couple episodes

00:36:30 – 00:36:34:	in particular, please click through and look at this stuff so you can see for yourselves

00:36:34 – 00:36:40:	because this is an audio presentation and where this is a superficial look at this stuff.

00:36:40 – 00:36:44:	We're not going super in depth because frankly, it's not important for the purpose of these

00:36:44 – 00:36:45:	conversations.

00:36:45 – 00:36:53:	This conversation, this episode is specifically making the case that race is a real thing.

00:36:53 – 00:36:58:	So if you have gone around and said one race, the human race, which is very common, people

00:36:58 – 00:37:03:	say without a guilty conscience, they think that they're being Christian.

00:37:03 – 00:37:08:	That's part of why we're refuting it is that it's not a Christian say thing to say, but

00:37:08 – 00:37:09:	it sounds Christian.

00:37:09 – 00:37:12:	It's important as Christians to tell the truth.

00:37:12 – 00:37:19:	And the fact that Satan is attacking this specific area of the truth should be an indication

00:37:19 – 00:37:23:	to every Christian that there's something going on here that matters.

00:37:23 – 00:37:28:	Now in the episode that we did on Christian nationalism and in the episode that we did

00:37:28 – 00:37:33:	on election, both of those we talked of some length in part, probably about 20 minutes

00:37:33 – 00:37:35:	in each episode.

00:37:35 – 00:37:42:	We talked about some of these things about how race and ancestry are concentric circles.

00:37:42 – 00:37:46:	So the notion, and this is this was present I mentioned in a previous episode in the

00:37:46 – 00:37:51:	Webster 1828 definition of race or of nation.

00:37:51 – 00:37:57:	It specifically addresses the fact that there were the race of Adam and the Jews are the

00:37:57 – 00:38:02:	race of Abraham that we as Europeans are the race of Japheth.

00:38:02 – 00:38:06:	And then as you go on down, those races get smaller.

00:38:06 – 00:38:12:	And one of the common false arguments that's a cheap shot and it's dishonest, but it sounds

00:38:12 – 00:38:18:	convincing superficially is that well, how can a German and a Dutchman be a separate

00:38:18 – 00:38:21:	race if European and African are a separate race?

00:38:21 – 00:38:23:	None of it makes any sense.

00:38:23 – 00:38:28:	Like you hear people say that that well, if there's this sort of continuum, I can't make

00:38:28 – 00:38:32:	sense of any of it, none of it must exist.

00:38:32 – 00:38:34:	That's just facially nonsense.

00:38:34 – 00:38:39:	The fact that you have a mother and a father and that your third cousins have a different

00:38:39 – 00:38:44:	mother and father and yet that you have a common great-grandparent, however far back

00:38:44 – 00:38:48:	it goes, doesn't mean you're not related, it just means that you're related to a different

00:38:48 – 00:38:54:	degree than your immediate cousin or your brother or sister.

00:38:54 – 00:39:00:	These degrees of relation are the basis of race.

00:39:00 – 00:39:03:	Now there's the discussion of the subject.

00:39:03 – 00:39:07:	One of the things that will come up is that there are people who say nobody even talked

00:39:07 – 00:39:12:	about any of this stuff until Charles Darwin invented the origin of species and invented

00:39:12 – 00:39:17:	evolution in 1859 and suddenly everyone started talking about race and never existed before

00:39:17 – 00:39:19:	that.

00:39:19 – 00:39:21:	That's a bald face lie.

00:39:21 – 00:39:27:	It's such a laughably retarded lie that it beggars belief that it even exists and

00:39:27 – 00:39:31:	yet there's some fairly intelligent people superficially who will say things like that, not

00:39:31 – 00:39:38:	because it's true, because it's a conversation killing lie that no one is going to fight

00:39:38 – 00:39:39:	them over.

00:39:39 – 00:39:46:	You can go back to Aristotle and see him discussing ethnicity and he broke it down into culture,

00:39:46 – 00:39:50:	language and genetics, which is a good way of breaking it down.

00:39:50 – 00:39:57:	As Cory mentioned, the Germans and the Dutch are genetically almost indistinguishable.

00:39:57 – 00:40:00:	If you look at genes, you're probably not going to be able to tell someone who's Dutch

00:40:00 – 00:40:04:	from someone who's German, yet if you talk to him for 30 seconds, you can clearly tell

00:40:04 – 00:40:05:	the difference.

00:40:05 – 00:40:10:	And in many cases, you might be able to tell just by looking because there are differences

00:40:10 – 00:40:15:	that there are a lot of things about genetics that we don't understand yet.

00:40:15 – 00:40:19:	That doesn't mean it's not real, it just means we don't know what's going on.

00:40:19 – 00:40:24:	The fact of ignorance of a man does not disprove the reality of a fact.

00:40:24 – 00:40:30:	It simply means that what we see with our own eyes, we don't yet have a downstream

00:40:30 – 00:40:33:	explanation for it.

00:40:33 – 00:40:37:	It's okay not to know, but it's not okay to lie because you don't know.

00:40:37 – 00:40:41:	So it is true that there is no one gene for race.

00:40:41 – 00:40:45:	And we'll get into this more in a little bit, but the reason that there's no one gene

00:40:45 – 00:40:51:	is that race is so inextricably linked to who you are as a human being, as a man or

00:40:51 – 00:40:56:	woman that God created in time from all of those fathers and all of those mothers going

00:40:56 – 00:41:01:	all the way back to the flood and back to Adam.

00:41:01 – 00:41:07:	There's such an intrinsic part of you that is from that winnowing process.

00:41:07 – 00:41:09:	That's the reason there's no race gene.

00:41:09 – 00:41:12:	That's the reason there's no skin color gene, which is another lie that we'll get to in

00:41:12 – 00:41:13:	a minute.

00:41:13 – 00:41:15:	These are not superficial things.

00:41:15 – 00:41:21:	These are things that are so deeply embedded in us that we don't yet understand how deep

00:41:21 – 00:41:22:	they go.

00:41:22 – 00:41:24:	That doesn't mean that they don't exist at all.

00:41:24 – 00:41:30:	It just means that as current year science looks at genetic data, it doesn't know where

00:41:30 – 00:41:31:	to find it.

00:41:31 – 00:41:36:	And it doesn't know where to find it because there's so much of it that we don't yet understand.

00:41:36 – 00:41:41:	So looking at these things and saying, well, we don't understand, doesn't preclude the

00:41:41 – 00:41:42:	existence of the thing.

00:41:42 – 00:41:45:	It just means we don't have an explanation.

00:41:45 – 00:41:47:	And it's okay as a Christian to leave it at that.

00:41:47 – 00:41:51:	There are lots of things we don't have explanations for that doesn't mean their false.

00:41:51 – 00:41:56:	In the fact that some of these discussions are coming from atheists and from evolutionists

00:41:56 – 00:42:04:	who have harmful intent in mind when they spread their lying conclusions, doesn't undermine

00:42:04 – 00:42:09:	the reality of the created order that God has given for all of us to observe.

00:42:09 – 00:42:12:	And that's the important part of this.

00:42:12 – 00:42:17:	So to expand on, you brought up skin color, it's a good place to expand on that since

00:42:17 – 00:42:20:	we just went over the genetics as well.

00:42:20 – 00:42:28:	There are those who will try to argue that because you see different skin tones in different

00:42:28 – 00:42:32:	parts of the world, despite them clearly being different races, which is interesting.

00:42:32 – 00:42:35:	They're importing that assumption in there.

00:42:35 – 00:42:40:	But for instance, there are fair skin Japanese.

00:42:40 – 00:42:41:	There are fair skin Europeans.

00:42:41 – 00:42:46:	There are many fair skin people in the Middle East, even to this day, despite the various

00:42:46 – 00:42:52:	conquests that have taken place since the time of the New Testament.

00:42:52 – 00:42:58:	But it is not skin color that is the determiner of race.

00:42:58 – 00:43:01:	It is genetic descent that is the determiner of race.

00:43:01 – 00:43:07:	And that's why we speak of the race of japheth or the race of shem or the race of ham.

00:43:07 – 00:43:11:	It is because a race is founded by a founding stock.

00:43:11 – 00:43:18:	Now the genes that express and cause skin color may be shared across people groups.

00:43:18 – 00:43:22:	As mentioned, there are fair skin peoples in various parts of the world.

00:43:22 – 00:43:26:	There are dark skinned people in various parts of the world.

00:43:26 – 00:43:34:	There is some genetic relation between the Aborigines in Australia and sub-Saharan Africans.

00:43:34 – 00:43:38:	But they are distinct people groups, despite having the same skin tone.

00:43:38 – 00:43:44:	Because race is not skin tone, skin tone is part of your phenotype.

00:43:44 – 00:43:48:	And again, your phenotype is the physical expression of your genotype.

00:43:48 – 00:43:50:	Your genotype is your genetics.

00:43:50 – 00:43:54:	Now, there's more to heritability than genetics, but we won't get into that now.

00:43:54 – 00:44:00:	And quite frankly, even the sciences aren't yet settled on what exactly and how exactly

00:44:00 – 00:44:02:	that works.

00:44:02 – 00:44:06:	So genetics DNA is good enough for our purposes.

00:44:06 – 00:44:08:	But race is not your skin color.

00:44:08 – 00:44:12:	Skin color is not your race.

00:44:12 – 00:44:14:	Because it is more than that.

00:44:14 – 00:44:20:	You are who and what you are because of quite a lot of things that came together historically

00:44:20 – 00:44:24:	to make your people unique.

00:44:24 – 00:44:29:	You are a member of that group because God saw fit to make you a member of that group.

00:44:29 – 00:44:30:	That was part of his plan.

00:44:30 – 00:44:37:	All of these genetic differences between the various races of men existed in Adam.

00:44:37 – 00:44:39:	They were part of God's plan from the beginning.

00:44:39 – 00:44:45:	And so there are those who will tell you that race is a punishment from God as part of

00:44:45 – 00:44:47:	the Tower of Babel.

00:44:47 – 00:44:52:	And that is lying about God that is high-handed sin.

00:44:52 – 00:44:56:	Christians should never let those words pass their lips.

00:44:56 – 00:45:01:	The various races of men are part of God's plan because God intended for us to spread

00:45:01 – 00:45:08:	over the face of the world, adapt to the area in which we live, to be fruitful and multiply.

00:45:08 – 00:45:11:	And he built into Adam the ability to do that.

00:45:11 – 00:45:13:	And that is what has taken place.

00:45:13 – 00:45:18:	And so part of that, of course, is going to be skin tone.

00:45:18 – 00:45:22:	And if you want to look at the explanation for skin tone, it's very easy.

00:45:22 – 00:45:25:	Pull up a map of human skin tones.

00:45:25 – 00:45:30:	You'll see that it is simply a matter of how far you are away from or how close you

00:45:30 – 00:45:32:	are to the equator.

00:45:32 – 00:45:35:	And the reason for that is very simple.

00:45:35 – 00:45:41:	If you get farther away from the equator, you need to be able to absorb more sunlight

00:45:41 – 00:45:44:	for various biological processes.

00:45:44 – 00:45:50:	And so if you have more melanin in your skin, if you have darker skin, you are going

00:45:50 – 00:45:53:	to have a problem producing certain vitamins and other things.

00:45:53 – 00:45:55:	And you are going to have health problems because of that.

00:45:55 – 00:45:59:	So you need fair skin to let the sunlight pass through.

00:45:59 – 00:46:02:	If you are close to the equator, you are going to get plenty of sunlight.

00:46:02 – 00:46:08:	If you are as fair skinned as a sweet or a Norwegian, and you're living on the equator,

00:46:08 – 00:46:10:	you are going to get sunburned.

00:46:10 – 00:46:15:	That's not advantageous unless you live there long enough and are able to tan, of course.

00:46:15 – 00:46:17:	And so that's all skin tone is.

00:46:17 – 00:46:20:	When we speak about race, we're not speaking about skin tone.

00:46:20 – 00:46:24:	skin tone is part of the equation.

00:46:24 – 00:46:29:	It is simply what God built into humanity so that we could live anywhere on the planet.

00:46:29 – 00:46:34:	Instead of just having one skin tone and having to live in a narrow latitude.

00:46:34 – 00:46:39:	And the reason that's important to discuss skin color first is because one of the most

00:46:39 – 00:46:44:	common deceptions, and frankly one of the laziest things that is said, even among people

00:46:44 – 00:46:50:	who know what's going on, is to call some people white and other people black.

00:46:50 – 00:46:57:	You know what someone, it means when they say that, but it's a dangerous frame because

00:46:57 – 00:47:00:	it begs the question that that's all races.

00:47:00 – 00:47:03:	That if someone were lighter, they wouldn't be black anymore.

00:47:03 – 00:47:07:	You can Google pictures of albinoes of various races.

00:47:07 – 00:47:10:	You can have albinoes where they have identical skin tone.

00:47:10 – 00:47:12:	You can clearly tell who's white.

00:47:12 – 00:47:16:	You can tell who's Asian and you can tell who's African because you know what?

00:47:16 – 00:47:20:	There's a lot more going on and it's not just facial features.

00:47:20 – 00:47:26:	It's not just distinguishing eye shape or jaw shape or skull shape, although all those

00:47:26 – 00:47:27:	things are true.

00:47:27 – 00:47:35:	There is a tremendous amount going on by virtue of genetic variation in each of the distinct

00:47:35 – 00:47:43:	races and we begin with the color question because it's such an on-sense because one

00:47:43 – 00:47:47:	of the most common arguments against us will be, you don't like people who look different.

00:47:47 – 00:47:51:	You don't like people with different skin color.

00:47:51 – 00:47:52:	That's just stupid.

00:47:52 – 00:47:55:	It's just flat-out stupid.

00:47:55 – 00:48:01:	None of the discussion of race from those who say it's real has anything to do with skin

00:48:01 – 00:48:02:	color.

00:48:02 – 00:48:07:	Yes, it is a common shorthand because when you say black, everybody knows what you mean.

00:48:07 – 00:48:12:	However, that doesn't mean that because there's a gradient of colors, and at some point,

00:48:12 – 00:48:16:	you have a white person at the opposite point of a black person and there are shades in

00:48:16 – 00:48:21:	between that we can't possibly know what the difference between black and white is.

00:48:21 – 00:48:25:	That is a flat-out logical fallacy.

00:48:25 – 00:48:26:	It's just nonsense.

00:48:26 – 00:48:28:	And yet it's very common with someone.

00:48:28 – 00:48:32:	It's the fallacy of the human.

00:48:32 – 00:48:37:	It's deliberate deception in order to just throw a chaffin in there so no one can have

00:48:37 – 00:48:40:	an honest discussion about this stuff.

00:48:40 – 00:48:47:	There are so many aspects of what it means to have a particular race that manifests in

00:48:47 – 00:48:54:	terms of behavior, in terms of intelligence, in terms of disease profile.

00:48:54 – 00:48:58:	And doctors know all of these things, or at least they did 20 years ago.

00:48:58 – 00:49:03:	And this is what's really deadly about this lie, which as I said, the atheist evolutionists

00:49:03 – 00:49:08:	are now getting on the same pages of Christians and denying race exists, and they're killing

00:49:08 – 00:49:10:	people as a result.

00:49:10 – 00:49:11:	Because you know what?

00:49:11 – 00:49:18:	If you are African, of African descent, you have a much higher likelihood of having sickle

00:49:18 – 00:49:19:	cell anemia.

00:49:19 – 00:49:22:	It's a blood disorder that everyone's heard about.

00:49:22 – 00:49:26:	Your red blood cells have their shaped wrong.

00:49:26 – 00:49:34:	It turns out that the sickle cell mutation is actually advantageous in terms of fighting

00:49:34 – 00:49:35:	malaria.

00:49:35 – 00:49:41:	It's a mutation that harms your ability to correctly deal with oxygen uptake in your blood.

00:49:41 – 00:49:45:	I'm not sure what the effects are, but it has a positive effect.

00:49:45 – 00:49:50:	It has the effect of reducing the ability for malaria to reproduce in your body.

00:49:50 – 00:49:55:	That is only found in Africa because only Africans live near the equator where malaria

00:49:55 – 00:49:57:	is rampant.

00:49:57 – 00:50:01:	You can't have malaria swamps in places like Norway.

00:50:01 – 00:50:05:	There are no mosquitoes carrying malaria in the fjords.

00:50:05 – 00:50:08:	There are in Africa.

00:50:08 – 00:50:14:	These variations that have real world consequences like sickle cell anemia are specifically linked

00:50:14 – 00:50:15:	to race.

00:50:15 – 00:50:20:	It's not that being an African causes you to have sickle cell anemia, it's that the race

00:50:20 – 00:50:27:	of Africans tend to have that particular mutation because of where they lived for 4,500

00:50:27 – 00:50:29:	years.

00:50:29 – 00:50:34:	The same is true across numerous other groups if I had a friend who married a Jewish girl,

00:50:34 – 00:50:40:	and so when they had their first kid, she had to go to have specific prenatal testing

00:50:40 – 00:50:45:	for lots of different genetic diseases that are particular to Jews.

00:50:45 – 00:50:49:	If he had married someone who's white, it wouldn't have been an issue, but Jews are more

00:50:49 – 00:50:51:	likely to have tastesacks.

00:50:51 – 00:50:55:	They're 40% more likely to suffer from schizophrenia.

00:50:55 – 00:50:56:	All these things are genetics.

00:50:56 – 00:51:02:	I say, Jew, I'm not talking about someone who reads the talmud and wears the funny hat.

00:51:02 – 00:51:07:	I'm talking about someone who's descended from those who identify as the race of Jews.

00:51:07 – 00:51:10:	Now, it's not hateful to say that.

00:51:10 – 00:51:15:	I'm not saying curse these people because they're Jews and I want them to have bad diseases.

00:51:15 – 00:51:20:	They have bad diseases in their genes that are particular to them.

00:51:20 – 00:51:26:	These variations are racial, and today, as I said, doctors are now ignoring this stuff.

00:51:26 – 00:51:28:	We're saying, oh, it's all one race to human race.

00:51:28 – 00:51:31:	You can't possibly have any differences.

00:51:31 – 00:51:35:	Well, that's going to get a lot of people killed who wouldn't have died if they had received

00:51:35 – 00:51:39:	the appropriate treatment.

00:51:39 – 00:51:45:	I think as Christians, we need to be really concerned about the fact that an unexamined

00:51:45 – 00:51:48:	given that we brought forward to say, well, we're all descended from Adam.

00:51:48 – 00:51:50:	So we're all exactly the same.

00:51:50 – 00:51:53:	And scientists for a long time were saying, no, that's not true at all.

00:51:53 – 00:51:58:	We have all these meaningful differences in our bodies, in our genes that have profound

00:51:58 – 00:52:00:	physical consequences.

00:52:00 – 00:52:05:	Now, suddenly, the doctors, the so-called experts, are denying those things, and they're

00:52:05 – 00:52:09:	using the same rationale as the Christians.

00:52:09 – 00:52:13:	As we've said before, that should really concern you, because they're going to get people

00:52:13 – 00:52:17:	killed by lying, lies cause harm.

00:52:17 – 00:52:18:	They always cause harm.

00:52:18 – 00:52:23:	And the fact that doctors are now lying about tastes acts, and they're lying about sickle

00:52:23 – 00:52:30:	cell anemia, is done in the name of anti-racism, it's saying, well, we can't possibly differentiate

00:52:30 – 00:52:34:	or distinguish, so we must say we're all the same.

00:52:34 – 00:52:38:	And then you have people suffering and dying from genetic diseases that are derived specifically

00:52:38 – 00:52:43:	from their race, because a doctor will say, well, you're human, I can't tell.

00:52:43 – 00:52:48:	You have no specific risk profile, you're just a human being.

00:52:48 – 00:52:51:	That's a lie that does harm, and it's a moral matter.

00:52:51 – 00:52:56:	These things are moral matters, they're not simply scientific inquiry.

00:52:56 – 00:53:01:	We've danced a little bit around a point that I should probably make more explicit.

00:53:01 – 00:53:07:	When it comes to the percentage of your DNA that comes from certain ancestors, if you

00:53:07 – 00:53:13:	have very little DNA from someone who has seven or eight generations back, and that could

00:53:13 – 00:53:19:	very likely be the case, you are still, so long as all of those individuals married within

00:53:19 – 00:53:24:	your particular ethnic group, related to the other people in your ethnic group in a web

00:53:24 – 00:53:31:	of relations, because of course there is a great pool of shared genetic material in that

00:53:31 – 00:53:33:	particular group.

00:53:33 – 00:53:40:	And so you will be more related to any randomly chosen member of that group than a member

00:53:40 – 00:53:43:	of another group somewhere else in the world.

00:53:43 – 00:53:51:	And so for instance, if you are descended from the Dutch, living in the US, you're descended

00:53:51 – 00:53:52:	from the Dutch.

00:53:52 – 00:53:58:	If you went to the Netherlands, you would be more related to any random Dutchman you found

00:53:58 – 00:54:03:	than if you were to go to Africa and pick anyone in Africa.

00:54:03 – 00:54:10:	And this shows up in a couple of places in the same sort of vein as the medical issues.

00:54:10 – 00:54:15:	If you are descended from Japheth, which is say if you are white, if you are European,

00:54:15 – 00:54:20:	and you marry someone from Africa, which is to say someone descended from him, your children

00:54:20 – 00:54:23:	are effectively not related to you.

00:54:23 – 00:54:29:	Because their DNA is so different from yours that you are more closely related to any random

00:54:29 – 00:54:35:	person from your nation of origin than you are to your own child.

00:54:35 – 00:54:41:	And the reason this starts to cause problems is because if you need a bone marrow transplant

00:54:41 – 00:54:46:	or an organ transplant or any of a number of treatments, you will not be compatible.

00:54:46 – 00:54:51:	The odds of you being a compatible donor for your child are basically zero.

00:54:51 – 00:54:55:	The odds of you finding a compatible donor are also extremely low.

00:54:55 – 00:54:59:	So there are very real consequences of this in the real world.

00:54:59 – 00:55:03:	This is not something you can deny and just ignore it and hope for the best.

00:55:03 – 00:55:08:	Because if you ignore these things, there's a very real chance those consequences will occur

00:55:08 – 00:55:13:	and there's nothing you can do about it at that point.

00:55:13 – 00:55:21:	And so another issue for disease frequency is that you do actually see more diseases crop

00:55:21 – 00:55:26:	up in those who have a mixed lineage than those who do not.

00:55:26 – 00:55:34:	And so that is a consideration for Christians because what you have from your ancestors

00:55:34 – 00:55:37:	is what was given to you by God.

00:55:37 – 00:55:42:	And so you are supposed to pass that on to your children.

00:55:42 – 00:55:49:	You can, through poor decisions, steal from the next generation through your selfish decisions.

00:55:49 – 00:55:52:	And that is a moral consideration.

00:55:52 – 00:55:54:	And so these are things that Christians have to take into account.

00:55:54 – 00:55:59:	We do not simply get to ignore this issue because it makes us uncomfortable or because the

00:55:59 – 00:56:02:	world tells us that we should ignore it.

00:56:02 – 00:56:05:	And we have this happening today as was mentioned as well mentioned.

00:56:05 – 00:56:11:	We have doctors who will pretend that these problems don't exist.

00:56:11 – 00:56:15:	But oh, there's no predictive ability of your genetic ancestry, of your racial ancestry.

00:56:15 – 00:56:18:	And that's just a lie.

00:56:18 – 00:56:20:	But we've actually moved on from that.

00:56:20 – 00:56:26:	We're now on the next step down or up the Marxist ladder, whichever way you want to think of it.

00:56:26 – 00:56:31:	I guess down given the destination, we now have doctors and others denying the reality

00:56:31 – 00:56:35:	of sex.

00:56:35 – 00:56:39:	And the reason for that is that as said, it's just the next step on the ladder.

00:56:39 – 00:56:45:	It makes perfect sense in the Marxist timeline in their plan to go from denying the reality

00:56:45 – 00:56:49:	of human race to denying the reality of sex.

00:56:49 – 00:56:55:	Because if you're not really any particular race, you don't have an ethnic origin, that's

00:56:55 – 00:56:56:	genetic.

00:56:56 – 00:56:57:	Well, so is sex.

00:56:57 – 00:57:00:	Sex is also genetically determined again.

00:57:00 – 00:57:05:	Women have two X chromosomes, men have an X and a Y.

00:57:05 – 00:57:10:	And we see this coming up in the medical field and others where there are doctors now who

00:57:10 – 00:57:17:	recommend a scan for a variant cancer for a man who's claiming to be a woman.

00:57:17 – 00:57:25:	Or they won't do a check for prostate cancer in a man who's claiming to be a woman.

00:57:25 – 00:57:27:	Biology doesn't care what you claim to be.

00:57:27 – 00:57:32:	If you are a man, if you were born a man, you have a prostate and you can get prostate

00:57:32 – 00:57:33:	cancer.

00:57:33 – 00:57:36:	Or you will, if you live long enough.

00:57:36 – 00:57:41:	So that is something for which you have to screen, because that is a biological reality.

00:57:41 – 00:57:43:	The same plays out with regard to race.

00:57:43 – 00:57:48:	There are biological realities that flow from race and have to be considered, or real

00:57:48 – 00:57:50:	harm is caused.

00:57:50 – 00:57:55:	As we mentioned earlier, none of this is a denial that we're all the same species.

00:57:55 – 00:58:01:	One of the definitions of a species that's typically accepted taxonomically for any creature

00:58:01 – 00:58:09:	is the ability to interbreed if two creatures can reproduce viable offspring that themselves

00:58:09 – 00:58:10:	can reproduce.

00:58:10 – 00:58:11:	They're typically considered.

00:58:11 – 00:58:15:	That's one of the measures by which you determine if it's the same species.

00:58:15 – 00:58:21:	It is absolutely true that a European and an African can reproduce and can reproduce viable

00:58:21 – 00:58:25:	offspring, which themselves can reproduce.

00:58:25 – 00:58:33:	However, when you look at the fertility rates across all the various populations, the peak

00:58:33 – 00:58:40:	fertility for how related you are to someone is actually in about the fourth cousin.

00:58:40 – 00:58:45:	So that's not simply talking about another white person if you're European.

00:58:45 – 00:58:48:	And it's not simply talking about another German.

00:58:48 – 00:58:53:	It means if you're German, it means someone who lives in the same town as you probably,

00:58:53 – 00:58:59:	maybe the next town over, but someone that you potentially would see at a family reunion.

00:58:59 – 00:59:03:	Now a fourth cousin is a fairly distant cousin, but it's close enough that you may well

00:59:03 – 00:59:09:	know their name, particularly if you're blessed to live in a community which really doesn't

00:59:09 – 00:59:12:	exist anywhere where you would keep in contact.

00:59:12 – 00:59:17:	There's a theological import to the fact that fourth cousins have the highest rate of

00:59:17 – 00:59:18:	fecundity.

00:59:18 – 00:59:21:	That's not trivial.

00:59:21 – 00:59:24:	Children are a blessing from God.

00:59:24 – 00:59:29:	And that which is blessed is that which is most desirous from God.

00:59:29 – 00:59:34:	He doesn't bless things that he finds to be evil, not in the same way.

00:59:34 – 00:59:35:	He blesses things.

00:59:35 – 00:59:36:	He finds to be good.

00:59:36 – 00:59:41:	And so if fourth cousins are the peak fecundity, that what that means is that if you marry

00:59:41 – 00:59:48:	a first or second cousin, you're less likely to reproduce for any given event of marriage.

00:59:48 – 00:59:51:	If you're looking at a sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth cousin or someone who's a complete

00:59:51 – 00:59:56:	stranger from the other side of the world, the fertility rate falls off significantly.

00:59:56 – 00:59:57:	That's not random.

59:57 – 01:00:04
And I think one of the problems that humans have and Christians have when dealing with

01:00:04 – 01:00:10:	questions of genetics is the question of randomness because we can't see the inputs.

01:00:10 – 01:00:11:	Well we can see his behavior.

01:00:11 – 01:00:15:	We can see a person, a person, b, we can see their behavior.

01:00:15 – 01:00:19:	And then we can see the outcomes of sort of a high level.

01:00:19 – 01:00:27:	There's so much apparent randomness in what happens with genetic admixture that is imperceptible

01:00:27 – 01:00:33:	to the human mind and in many cases, simply uncalculable that we tend to disregard it as

01:00:33 – 01:00:36:	being inconsequential.

01:00:36 – 01:00:41:	And I think that as Christians, the reality that we should focus on is that God knows

01:00:41 – 01:00:44:	what's going on at these levels.

01:00:44 – 01:00:51:	When God gave Adam 46 chromosomes, He knew the contents of every single gene in there.

01:00:51 – 01:00:53:	He knew all of it.

01:00:53 – 01:00:54:	There are 30,000 odd genes.

01:00:54 – 01:00:56:	He knew what was in each of them.

01:00:56 – 01:01:00:	He chose them specifically for specific purposes.

01:01:00 – 01:01:05:	When He brought Eve from out of Adam's body, Eve was a fully formed woman.

01:01:05 – 01:01:09:	What that meant was that she probably had in the order of hundreds of thousands, maybe

01:01:09 – 01:01:13:	million or so eggs inside her body.

01:01:13 – 01:01:17:	One thing that a lot of people don't know is that when a little girl is born, she has

01:01:17 – 01:01:20:	as many eggs as she's ever going to have in her entire life.

01:01:20 – 01:01:23:	Eggs are not reproduced during the life of a person.

01:01:23 – 01:01:28:	They're produced at a germ level in utero.

01:01:28 – 01:01:32:	And then they die off throughout the person's life, the girl's life.

01:01:32 – 01:01:35:	And they're also shed once ovulation begins.

01:01:35 – 01:01:37:	And so a girl is born.

01:01:37 – 01:01:41:	She's conceived initially as something like six or seven million of what could potentially

01:01:41 – 01:01:43:	become OVA.

01:01:43 – 01:01:47:	By the time of birth, there's about 300,000 give or take.

01:01:47 – 01:01:56:	By the time she begins to reach sexual maturity, she's lost about 10,000 of those every month.

01:01:56 – 01:01:59:	And then one or two are shed every month through ovulation.

01:01:59 – 01:02:03:	And then at menopause, basically the system shuts down because the eggs are basically

01:02:03 – 01:02:04:	exhausted.

01:02:04 – 01:02:06:	So there's a finite amount of them.

01:02:06 – 01:02:09:	They God creates when He creates life.

01:02:09 – 01:02:10:	And then they're depleted.

01:02:10 – 01:02:14:	And that's the end of the girl's reproductive life, it's not the end of her life.

01:02:14 – 01:02:19:	But it's the end of her life as someone who can potentially reproduce.

01:02:19 – 01:02:21:	Men sort of work in the opposite direction.

01:02:21 – 01:02:24:	We don't really begin producing sperm until puberty.

01:02:24 – 01:02:30:	And then we produce millions a day until long after we're likely to ever be reproducing.

01:02:30 – 01:02:37:	And so God has architected our bodies in different ways to achieve His ends.

01:02:37 – 01:02:39:	But it seems random to us.

01:02:39 – 01:02:41:	It's not random to God.

01:02:41 – 01:02:49:	And so the fact that fourth cousins are the most likely to be blessed by reproducing successfully

01:02:49 – 01:02:53:	is itself, I believe, a theological conclusion.

01:02:53 – 01:02:57:	It points to the fact that marrying not only within your own race, like we're not just

01:02:57 – 01:03:03:	talking about white people, Mary white people, Asians, Mary Asians.

01:03:03 – 01:03:08:	It's a question of, as Corey said, how closely related are you to someone?

01:03:08 – 01:03:14:	Because when you're looking, if you need a bone marrow match or a kidney donor or something,

01:03:14 – 01:03:17:	it's not simply another European that's going to do the job.

01:03:17 – 01:03:22:	They're not closely related enough because we said these are concentric circles.

01:03:22 – 01:03:28:	You need someone who has a very similar ancestry to your own to have the chance, the random

01:03:28 – 01:03:32:	chance from a human perspective, but it's not random, it's up to God.

01:03:32 – 01:03:37:	All of these things are passed down through time and God acts in time to produce each of

01:03:37 – 01:03:38:	us in a particular way.

01:03:38 – 01:03:44:	I'm about 75% English give or take and about 20% German.

01:03:44 – 01:03:48:	So someone else with a similar ancestry is my relative.

01:03:48 – 01:03:53:	If they came from Kent and they came from Saxony, we're closely related.

01:03:53 – 01:04:00:	More so than someone, even someone who might be Spanish, I would be more closely related

01:04:00 – 01:04:05:	to a random Englishman who was 20% Dutch than to a Spaniard by virtue of the fact that

01:04:05 – 01:04:09:	these things group over time and tend to cluster.

01:04:09 – 01:04:15:	And again, if you've listened to us thus far, at no point have we said anything hateful,

01:04:15 – 01:04:18:	rather than saying that human beings are created by God differently.

01:04:18 – 01:04:23:	And the fact that the world is now saying that that itself is hateful should be a cause

01:04:23 – 01:04:28:	for great concern for Christians because it flies in the face of Scripture.

01:04:28 – 01:04:33:	It flies in the face of the truth of what we discover when we look at these facts.

01:04:33 – 01:04:36:	Why is that lie so important?

01:04:36 – 01:04:40:	Because when Satan authored, he had something in mind and when Christians are parroting

01:04:40 – 01:04:48:	that lie, we need to be more wily and more concerned about what the final goal of such

01:04:48 – 01:04:50:	a lie is.

01:04:50 – 01:04:55:	And when we repeat them, when we say it's just skin color, skins, it's only skin deep,

01:04:55 – 01:04:59:	one race to human race, these bumper sticker tropes that make people feel better.

01:04:59 – 01:05:03:	And maybe it's a good way to tamp down some disagreement that the two people have in

01:05:03 – 01:05:06:	the moment and you say, look, you know, this is a Noah family reunion.

01:05:06 – 01:05:09:	You guys need to just get along.

01:05:09 – 01:05:10:	People should get along.

01:05:10 – 01:05:14:	They should get along peacefully, but it shouldn't be done in terms that cause us to have

01:05:14 – 01:05:16:	to lie to get there.

01:05:16 – 01:05:17:	That's not what God desires.

01:05:17 – 01:05:24:	He desires us to be peaceful, even in the face of things that are maybe not desirable,

01:05:24 – 01:05:26:	but we don't lie to get there.

01:05:26 – 01:05:30:	And when we lie about race, as Cory said, it's an attack on the creator.

01:05:30 – 01:05:35:	If you lie about how you were created, you were lying about he who created you.

01:05:35 – 01:05:38:	And he who created you is he who redeemed you.

01:05:38 – 01:05:43:	And we'll talk a lot more about that in the second episode, but again, these are these

01:05:43 – 01:05:47:	are theological questions that manifest in space and time.

01:05:47 – 01:05:52:	And the fact that they're all seen particularly lately through this Marxist lens, where again,

01:05:52 – 01:05:54:	they don't want to talk about what race is.

01:05:54 – 01:05:57:	They just want to talk about it as a weapon.

01:05:57 – 01:06:02:	We has Christians must get away from accepting their frame and looking at the actual ground

01:06:02 – 01:06:07:	truth of these matters because failure to do that is setting us up for failure because

01:06:07 – 01:06:12:	whatever lie you want to adopt, Satan has a step two or a step three for that lie.

01:06:12 – 01:06:15:	He knows what the next move is, even if we don't.

01:06:15 – 01:06:20:	And that's why it's so important to guard ourselves up front against not repeating some

01:06:20 – 01:06:22:	of these deceptions.

01:06:22 – 01:06:27:	To go back for a second to something we said earlier, to give people a hard numbers

01:06:27 – 01:06:33:	and some will not be familiar with this, when we say that human beings, one human being

01:06:33 – 01:06:41:	to another is going to be somewhere between 98 and 99.9% the same genetically.

01:06:41 – 01:06:47:	Human beings have three billion base pairs roughly in our genomes.

01:06:47 – 01:06:53:	So a difference of one tenth of one percent is three million base pairs.

01:06:53 – 01:06:55:	This is not a trivial difference.

01:06:55 – 01:06:59:	It sounds like a small difference until you realize the scale of the thing about which

01:06:59 – 01:07:01:	we are talking.

01:07:01 – 01:07:06:	And so when you're dealing with three billion base pairs, that one tenth of one percent

01:07:06 – 01:07:12:	difference is significant, particularly given the rate of mutations that occur over time.

01:07:12 – 01:07:19:	When we talked about race being skin deep, there was a scientific study that was done

01:07:19 – 01:07:20:	about a year and a half ago.

01:07:20 – 01:07:29:	It was done by someone, a doctor who was basically employing what is called artificial intelligence

01:07:29 – 01:07:36:	to X-rays to make conclusions related to healthcare outcomes, basically trying to determine

01:07:36 – 01:07:42:	with a whole bunch of X-rays of people's chests and various other body parts to make sure

01:07:42 – 01:07:48:	that as it was going through their machinery, they would be giving them the desired outputs

01:07:48 – 01:07:50:	and not undesirable ones.

01:07:50 – 01:07:56:	And this person is diametrically opposed to us in terms of politics.

01:07:56 – 01:08:00:	In fact, I actually had trouble finding the thread earlier today because the screenshot

01:08:00 – 01:08:03:	that I had of the thread was from a doctor Luke.

01:08:03 – 01:08:05:	And now he's, I think, Dr. Laura.

01:08:05 – 01:08:09:	The guy who did this is now pretending to be a woman.

01:08:09 – 01:08:12:	So that gives you some idea where he is on the political spectrum.

01:08:12 – 01:08:18:	And yet, what he found in the paper that he and some other authors did was that when

01:08:18 – 01:08:25:	they fed these X-rays into their artificial intelligence algorithm, it was able to determine

01:08:25 – 01:08:29:	the race of the patient, even when that was never the question asked.

01:08:29 – 01:08:34:	Now, the race that they were using wasn't anything based on genetics, it was simply self-identified.

01:08:34 – 01:08:40:	If the patient said on the form, I'm white, I'm black, whatever, that was what they correlated

01:08:40 – 01:08:42:	back to the images.

01:08:42 – 01:08:46:	Now, the important thing is that they never told the computer anything about any of the

01:08:46 – 01:08:47:	racial data.

01:08:47 – 01:08:52:	They just said, here are a bunch of chest X-rays, can you divide them up?

01:08:52 – 01:08:58:	What they found was that with a clear chest X-ray, the machinery, the computer algorithm

01:08:58 – 01:09:04:	with 99% accuracy was able to determine if someone was European African or Asian.

01:09:04 – 01:09:10:	Let me say that again, looking at a chest X-ray, the computer could tell if you were European

01:09:10 – 01:09:13:	African or Asian, no other information.

01:09:13 – 01:09:17:	Now, the authors completely freaked out because they're like, oh my God, the computer's

01:09:17 – 01:09:19:	racist, what do we do?

01:09:19 – 01:09:21:	Because they were thinking the same thing, a lot of you were thinking, the race isn't

01:09:21 – 01:09:26:	real, we're all one race, the human race, and if these computers are finding this race

01:09:26 – 01:09:30:	stuff in these images, we're in real trouble.

01:09:30 – 01:09:33:	Now I said artificial intelligence because that's the term that's used, but it's really

01:09:33 – 01:09:36:	a nonsense term.

01:09:36 – 01:09:40:	What these specific computer algorithms do is simply pattern matching.

01:09:40 – 01:09:46:	They look at a collection of data, whether it's images or sounds or whatever, and they

01:09:46 – 01:09:54:	measure the probability with which one thing is likely to be similar to another.

01:09:54 – 01:09:58:	So when I say pattern matching, when you match a pattern as a person, maybe I show you a

01:09:58 – 01:10:03:	red ball, and I show you a blue ball, and ask you are they the same, and you would say,

01:10:03 – 01:10:07:	well, they're the same shape, but they're not the same color, what do you mean by same?

01:10:07 – 01:10:11:	If I showed you a red ball and a red ball, and ask you are the same, the pattern, but

01:10:11 – 01:10:16:	yeah, they're the same, maybe the size varies, but the shape and the color are the same.

01:10:16 – 01:10:20:	So when a human pattern matches, it's based on particularity.

01:10:20 – 01:10:24:	Now we might generalize and just sort of a glance, say, those two things are similar.

01:10:24 – 01:10:27:	The computers have no notion of ball.

01:10:27 – 01:10:33:	They have no concept of ballness or colorness, or any of the other aptitudes, the other qualities

01:10:33 – 01:10:34:	of the thing.

01:10:34 – 01:10:40:	All they're doing is saying image one is 83% consistent with image two, and that's literally

01:10:40 – 01:10:41:	it.

01:10:42 – 01:10:48:	So when they fed these chest x-rays and all the other x-rays into the hopper, it didn't

01:10:48 – 01:10:51:	know what an x-ray was, it didn't know what a skeleton was, it didn't know what a human

01:10:51 – 01:10:57:	was, all it knew was the some bones and some other bones, and it was still able to divide

01:10:57 – 01:11:04:	them with 99% accuracy into the bucket of European, African, and Asian.

01:11:04 – 01:11:11:	Now if you individually have ever said race is only skin deep, race is a social construct,

01:11:11 – 01:11:13:	how do you process that?

01:11:13 – 01:11:18:	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 – 01:11:23:	it wasn't a skeleton, we'll get to skeletons in a moment, but when you just show a portion

01:11:23 – 01:11:29:	of individuals skeleton to a machine, it's able to tell what race they were.

01:11:29 – 01:11:33:	Part of the reason they was so shocking to the scientist was they didn't know was possible.

01:11:33 – 01:11:39:	It was a completely shocking revelation because no x-ray tech has ever been able to look

01:11:39 – 01:11:44:	at someone's chest x-ray, and that's a black guy, that's a white guy.

01:11:44 – 01:11:48:	It doesn't happen, and yet the computer, because it was able to see things the humans

01:11:48 – 01:11:55:	can't see, just in terms of statistical comparison, it said, yeah, these three buckets exist,

01:11:55 – 01:11:59:	and these three buckets have names, the humans have given them, which are races, major

01:11:59 – 01:12:01:	racial groups.

01:12:01 – 01:12:06:	And the wildest part of this thing was it with perfectly clear x-rays, they were able

01:12:06 – 01:12:09:	to do with 99% accuracy.

01:12:09 – 01:12:14:	They also used degraded x-rays, where they deleted more and more information, basically

01:12:14 – 01:12:15:	downresing it.

01:12:15 – 01:12:20:	So if you have a 4K picture, and you take it down to HD, and then you take it down to

01:12:20 – 01:12:26:	imagine the original iPhone with a 320x240 screen, and you take it even smaller than that,

01:12:26 – 01:12:31:	they found that the computer was still able to tell what the race was, even with a radically

01:12:31 – 01:12:36:	reduced resolution, which really blew their minds, because where is it getting the information?

01:12:36 – 01:12:40:	And yet the consistent results were still over 90% accuracy.

01:12:40 – 01:12:41:	So they took it a step further.

01:12:41 – 01:12:46:	They took the original image, there was high definition, but they began to apply a random

01:12:46 – 01:12:48:	noise filter to it.

01:12:48 – 01:12:53:	Now what that means is that they would randomly flip pixels black or white, and so what

01:12:53 – 01:12:55:	you got was just a gray fuzz.

01:12:55 – 01:12:59:	They were able to fuzz it to the point that the images themselves just look like gray

01:12:59 – 01:13:00:	squares.

01:13:00 – 01:13:04:	So as a human being looking at it, not only you would know as an x-ray, you wouldn't

01:13:04 – 01:13:10:	be able to tell one image from a part, from the other apart, and yet the algorithm was

01:13:10 – 01:13:17:	still able to tell with 90% accuracy that one image came from an African, another came

01:13:17 – 01:13:20:	from a European, and the third came from an Asian.

01:13:20 – 01:13:26:	Now all this is to say is that race is so deeply and inextricably linked inside our bodies

01:13:26 – 01:13:30:	that it manifests in ways that we had no idea even existed.

01:13:30 – 01:13:34:	It wasn't until they fed all these images into the computer that anyone had any idea

01:13:34 – 01:13:40:	you could tell from a chest x-ray or a wrist x-ray what race someone was.

01:13:40 – 01:13:43:	There's never been any study that showed that before, which doesn't say it's false.

01:13:43 – 01:13:49:	It was an absolutely true discovery, but it was completely unexpected and was unexpected

01:13:49 – 01:13:51:	by people who were terrified.

01:13:51 – 01:13:54:	The paper that they wrote was basically, oh my god, the computer's racist.

01:13:54 – 01:13:56:	How do we will lobotomize it?

01:13:56 – 01:14:01:	Because again, if there's one race, the human race, and yet the computer is saying this

01:14:01 – 01:14:06:	guy is white, this guy is Asian, if you deny race, you're going to be terrified of the

01:14:06 – 01:14:11:	fact that the computer is reaching impermissible outcomes.

01:14:11 – 01:14:16:	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 – 01:14:20:	of surprising how much it was intrinsic, but on the other hand, it's not surprising at

01:14:20 – 01:14:21:	all.

01:14:21 – 01:14:28:	Because we know, as we pointed back in the albino example, facial structure, skull structure

01:14:28 – 01:14:30:	is radically different.

01:14:31 – 01:14:37:	There are intrinsic aspects of human beings that are distinctly categorized by race that

01:14:37 – 01:14:38:	have nothing to do with skin color.

01:14:38 – 01:14:43:	They have nothing to do with anything except for, after thousands of years of variation,

01:14:43 – 01:14:49:	of genetic variation, we've come out differently, which again is not a value judgment.

01:14:49 – 01:14:52:	It's just saying that we're different in observable ways.

01:14:52 – 01:14:57:	And as Christians, we should be able to say, yes, we're different in observable ways.

01:14:57 – 01:15:01:	Without feeling that that threatens anyone's salvation, or that it threatens the gospel

01:15:01 – 01:15:07:	because it absolutely doesn't, what does threaten the gospel is lying about these things

01:15:07 – 01:15:09:	and that should be our chief concern.

01:15:09 – 01:15:16:	So it's interesting that a machine would be able to pick out race from something that

01:15:16 – 01:15:20:	for a human being looking at it, it would be effectively noise.

01:15:20 – 01:15:24:	There would be essentially no signal there that would be discernible by us, and that

01:15:24 – 01:15:28:	was just with chest X-rays.

01:15:28 – 01:15:36:	Human beings can actually train human beings, obviously, can tell from skeletons the race

01:15:36 – 01:15:43:	and the sex of someone because there are very distinct formations the way the skeleton

01:15:43 – 01:15:48:	is shaped, different densities, all sorts of things that you can tell.

01:15:48 – 01:15:54:	So you can tell the race and the sex of someone from a skeleton alone.

01:15:54 – 01:15:59:	And we see this all the time, this is done all the time by anthropologists, by archaeologists,

01:15:59 – 01:16:02:	by those who are studying ancient civilizations.

01:16:02 – 01:16:08:	If you dig up a skeleton and you have the training, you can definitively say that was

01:16:08 – 01:16:12:	a European male between these ages.

01:16:12 – 01:16:17:	And so obviously, yes, a computer can do this as well because a computer can do it from

01:16:17 – 01:16:22:	an X-ray that's downgraded to the point of being noise, but it's just further refutation

01:16:22 – 01:16:27:	of those who would try to say that skin color is race or that race is skin color, that

01:16:27 – 01:16:31:	it's skin deep, it's not.

01:16:31 – 01:16:35:	There are fundamental differences, and you can see that in the skeletal structure, you

01:16:35 – 01:16:40:	can see that in the biology, you can see that in, we'll get into in later episodes, behavior

01:16:40 – 01:16:43:	and other things.

01:16:43 – 01:16:49:	Race is a fundamental part of human nature, and that is by God's design, because of course

01:16:49 – 01:16:52:	human nature is God's design.

01:16:52 – 01:16:57:	And in the case of skeletons being dug up, this is actually an important part of forensics

01:16:57 – 01:16:59:	for police.

01:16:59 – 01:17:04:	If they discover a skeleton in a field or something for a person who's been dead for some time

01:17:04 – 01:17:09:	and there's no longer any distinguishing physical characteristics, they will call it, call

01:17:09 – 01:17:16:	in these experts, who can clearly determine the race, the sex.

01:17:16 – 01:17:21:	And in some cases, even the age and perhaps the sort of life that the person led, one

01:17:21 – 01:17:25:	of the interesting things from anthropology when digging up older skeletons is that they

01:17:25 – 01:17:31:	can tell, for example, or any skeleton, really, they can tell what sort of childhood and

01:17:31 – 01:17:37:	upbringing you had, they can determine the rate of your nutrition, were you being fed

01:17:37 – 01:17:43:	well, were you being underfed, they can tell if you let an active physical lifestyle.

01:17:43 – 01:17:50:	So if someone was engaged in strenuous physical activity, particularly as they are going

01:17:50 – 01:17:53:	through puberty, that actually affects your growth plates.

01:17:53 – 01:17:59:	So your bones will look different than someone who let a more sedentary life, which in the

01:17:59 – 01:18:05:	case of history will tend to indicate what cast someone fell into, what class, were they

01:18:05 – 01:18:10:	a laborer, were they a warrior, were they, you know, someone who lived in a castle and

01:18:10 – 01:18:15:	maybe they did those things for fun or for training, but not because it was life and

01:18:15 – 01:18:16:	death.

01:18:16 – 01:18:21:	So all of these things are manifest in our physical bodies and they're left long after

01:18:21 – 01:18:23:	our skin has gone.

01:18:23 – 01:18:27:	And this too has been become controversial recently.

01:18:27 – 01:18:32:	I was reading an account earlier today from a girl who was, I believe she was teaching

01:18:32 – 01:18:41:	a class related to the study of bones dug up by police to identify victims.

01:18:41 – 01:18:46:	And the professor who was supervising the class and the students lost their minds when

01:18:46 – 01:18:53:	she said that you can tell the race of someone by their skeleton, they went into a frenzy.

01:18:53 – 01:18:58:	They were so upset at the idea that you could tell the race of a person without looking

01:18:58 – 01:19:00:	at their skin color.

01:19:00 – 01:19:05:	Now that's not the response of someone pursuing an academic truth.

01:19:05 – 01:19:10:	That's not the response of someone who has in their mind, I want to learn what is

01:19:10 – 01:19:12:	real.

01:19:12 – 01:19:14:	That's a religious response.

01:19:14 – 01:19:19:	When you say something and people weep and they nash their teeth and they tear their

01:19:19 – 01:19:26:	clothes and they howl, that is religious, that is a religious response to hearing blasphemy.

01:19:26 – 01:19:31:	And we're doing this episode because it's blasphemous, not against God, but discussing

01:19:31 – 01:19:39:	race in these realistic terms is absolutely blasphemous to the spirit of this modern age,

01:19:39 – 01:19:44:	which for a while, again, said yes, race was real when they were talking about evolution.

01:19:44 – 01:19:49:	But now that they're trying to collapse all of humanity back before the powtower of

01:19:49 – 01:19:57:	Babel into a single, seething mass of undifferentiated humanity with neither sex nor race nor

01:19:57 – 01:20:04:	any distinguishing characteristics apart from being a consumer, the spirit of this age

01:20:04 – 01:20:08:	is in opposition to telling the truth about these things now.

01:20:08 – 01:20:14:	And unfortunately, most Christians are behind the ape all because we have not seriously

01:20:14 – 01:20:19:	engaged in the question because the origins of something, we've talked many times about

01:20:19 – 01:20:27:	the genealogy of ideas and I've tried to focus when we discuss that on the genealogy is

01:20:27 – 01:20:32:	not simply from whence it came, but what was the original motivation of whoever was coming

01:20:32 – 01:20:33:	up with it?

01:20:33 – 01:20:38:	Now race has always been understood by human beings.

01:20:38 – 01:20:39:	It's found throughout scripture.

01:20:39 – 01:20:43:	We've talked about that in the two previous episodes I mentioned.

01:20:43 – 01:20:48:	The differentiation between the races has become greater and greater over time as we left

01:20:48 – 01:20:52:	Mount Anorayarat and finally filled the earth as God commanded.

01:20:52 – 01:20:59:	There's far more diversity genetically today than there was 500 years after Mount Erad

01:20:59 – 01:21:04:	was as Chorus mentioning that's simply how mutation works and that is how the migration

01:21:04 – 01:21:08:	of these genes back and forth among people as they reproduce works.

01:21:08 – 01:21:14:	That's not contrary to God's plan and you can see in Revelation 7-9 that all the nations

01:21:14 – 01:21:20:	are gathered around the throne and when John was looking at them, he could tell what

01:21:20 – 01:21:21:	race they were.

01:21:21 – 01:21:23:	He could tell that they were from the various nations.

01:21:23 – 01:21:29:	So that goes back to the gnostic element of this denial of the flesh.

01:21:29 – 01:21:34:	It is fundamentally gnostic for us to say, oh, we're all just spirits, we'll get a new

01:21:34 – 01:21:37:	body that won't be anything like this body we have now.

01:21:37 – 01:21:39:	That's utterly blasphemous.

01:21:39 – 01:21:45:	God created you personally, exactly as he intended you to be.

01:21:45 – 01:21:52:	Now what came out of your mother's womb is indeed injured by sin and degradation.

01:21:52 – 01:21:57:	When God raises us from the dead, all of those degradations, all of the genetic deformities,

01:21:57 – 01:22:02:	all the defects will be washed away, nothing will be present that isn't perfect.

01:22:02 – 01:22:06:	But the imperfections that are washed away will not include the race that we are because

01:22:06 – 01:22:10:	that is absolutely a part of God's perfect plan.

01:22:10 – 01:22:15:	It's part of the plan in Acts 1726 when he describes the nations being given the boundaries

01:22:15 – 01:22:20:	of their dwelling places and it's present in Revelation 7-9 before the throne of God,

01:22:20 – 01:22:26:	in all the nations of the world, of every color, of every appearance, of every language

01:22:26 – 01:22:31:	gather before the throne of God, which means that they are perfected in the languages

01:22:31 – 01:22:36:	and the physical bodies that they were given in this life.

01:22:36 – 01:22:40:	The race that you're given is the race that you will always be.

01:22:40 – 01:22:46:	And if you despise that, you need to be seriously concerned because if you're despising how

01:22:46 – 01:22:54:	God created you, the damter resurrected too, there's no annihilationism in Scripture.

01:22:54 – 01:22:59:	Every dead man will be raised on the last day and the sheep are then separated from the

01:22:59 – 01:23:00:	goats.

01:23:00 – 01:23:07:	So those who deny their race and deny their creator as a result of it and deny the resurrection

01:23:07 – 01:23:12:	of the body by saying, well, I'm not going to be raised as a white man or as a Japanese

01:23:12 – 01:23:19:	man or as a Ugandan, I'm just going to be raised as something new.

01:23:19 – 01:23:21:	You're flirting with damnation and God will sort that out.

01:23:21 – 01:23:26:	I'm not saying that you're not saved if you say those things, but I am saying that you

01:23:26 – 01:23:31:	were saying to God, I hate what you made, I want to be something different.

01:23:31 – 01:23:37:	That is not a confession that any of us should seek to take before the throne of God.

01:23:37 – 01:23:43:	When Christ died for each of us and his blood covers our sins and washes our robes white

01:23:43 – 01:23:48:	in his blood, that is for every man who has ever descended from Adam, but only the robes

01:23:48 – 01:23:52:	of those who confess Christ will receive that.

01:23:52 – 01:23:56:	And confessing Christ means confessing how He created us.

01:23:56 – 01:23:59:	We were created through Him, we were redeemed through Him.

01:23:59 – 01:24:01:	We will be resurrected with Him.

01:24:01 – 01:24:09:	And if we take a hatred of self and a hatred of creation to judgment day, that's a sin

01:24:09 – 01:24:11:	that we need to repent for as well.

01:24:11 – 01:24:16:	And denial of race and denial of these truths is a sin.

01:24:16 – 01:24:21:	Even though there are some who use these truths for evil ends, that does not make the

01:24:21 – 01:24:25:	truths themselves evil, that makes the truths themselves the truth.

01:24:25 – 01:24:31:	Truth can be a weapon, truth can do harm or can do good, but you do not solve the harm

01:24:31 – 01:24:35:	that can be done by a truth by denying that it's true.

01:24:35 – 01:24:39:	And as Christians, we have no choice but to engage first in truth and then to approach

01:24:39 – 01:24:42:	and love all that which is true.

01:24:42 – 01:24:44:	So is the future episodes common?

01:24:44 – 01:24:47:	We go into more detail on the spiritual aspects of this.

01:24:47 – 01:24:55:	I want everyone to keep in mind that this is not some side show.

01:24:55 – 01:24:59:	We can see in the world how much race matters to Satan.

01:24:59 – 01:25:02:	And if it matters to Satan, it must matter to Christians.

01:25:02 – 01:25:10:	And until we've done this episode, I'm not aware of any serious discussion among Christians

01:25:10 – 01:25:15:	that had any depth or clarity, they would address these issues in a way that's going to

01:25:15 – 01:25:19:	be blasphemous to the world, but yet consistent with Scripture.

01:25:19 – 01:25:24:	And I hope that there will be more Christians who will begin to study and think and engage

01:25:24 – 01:25:29:	in this way because I think that the time is growing short for the church.

01:25:29 – 01:25:33:	And I think that we should be prepared to give a defense for everything, including creation

01:25:33 – 01:25:34:	itself.

01:25:34 – 01:25:38:	So I'd encourage everyone to please look at the show notes, look at the all the different

01:25:38 – 01:25:39:	links we'll have there.

01:25:39 – 01:25:41:	This is probably more than most.

01:25:41 – 01:25:45:	I would like to mention one of the websites that we're going to link to is from an old

01:25:45 – 01:25:48:	friend from Twitter Thuletide.

01:25:48 – 01:25:51:	He's not a Christian, he is an old earth evolutionist.

01:25:51 – 01:25:58:	So many of the things that he says you will find offensive for some of the conclusions.

01:25:58 – 01:26:02:	The reason that we're going to link to him is that he's honest.

01:26:02 – 01:26:06:	There are some things that are said within the right wings, fear on Twitter that are based

01:26:06 – 01:26:12:	on race that he will also refute to the right when it doesn't agree with the facts.

01:26:12 – 01:26:15:	I don't know his background, but I can tell from reading him for many years.

01:26:15 – 01:26:18:	He's a very smart guy and he really knows this stuff.

01:26:18 – 01:26:24:	And so we're going to link to him because he has a number of one-on-one articles that

01:26:24 – 01:26:28:	go down some of the fallacies are involved in this subject.

01:26:28 – 01:26:31:	Many things you may well believe now, we've refuted a few of them, but there are plenty

01:26:31 – 01:26:32:	of others.

01:26:32 – 01:26:36:	So as you look at that again, I would encourage you to try to separate the Wii from the

01:26:36 – 01:26:38:	Traff.

01:26:38 – 01:26:42:	There will be things on the webpage that I will tell you right now, some of the conclusions

01:26:42 – 01:26:47:	particularly around the timelines, saying that these things took Conards of Thousands

01:26:47 – 01:26:48:	of Years.

01:26:48 – 01:26:49:	Those are false.

01:26:49 – 01:26:52:	That does not mean that the data itself is false.

01:26:52 – 01:26:57:	And so as you look through it, I hope you'll find some value as a Christian in synthesizing

01:26:57 – 01:27:02:	what you know from scripture from the facts that are found within your own body.

01:27:02 – 01:27:06:	Because those pages are about you too, they're about the stuff that's inside you.

01:27:06 – 01:27:08:	They're how God made you, they're how God made each of us.

01:27:08 – 01:27:12:	And that's something that we should know about and we should give thanks for.

01:27:12 – 01:27:13:	And we cannot deny.

01:27:13 – 01:27:18:	And so it is because of our love and our thanks for God and how he's done these things

01:27:18 – 01:27:22:	in our lives, they were doing these episodes because it's a challenging subject.

01:27:22 – 01:27:27:	And frankly, just discussing race is enough for people to try to dox and destroy you.

01:27:27 – 01:27:32:	As recording this right now, there's a massive campaign to dox us and to get us expelled

01:27:32 – 01:27:37:	from our churches for saying these things, which are not hateful, they're simply truthful.

01:27:37 – 01:27:42:	But the fact that that elicits so much hate, I think is itself that this is a really

01:27:42 – 01:27:46:	big deal for Satan and his Christians needs to be something that we at least give

01:27:46 – 01:27:50:	due consideration as well because souls are on the line.

01:27:50 – 01:27:56:	Yes, as we record, I know there are people who are attempting to harass my pastor.

01:27:56 – 01:28:01:	But at any rate, to address an issue that I know will come up for some people, there's

01:28:01 – 01:28:05:	the question of how Marxism plays into this.

01:28:05 – 01:28:10:	Because I know some will think, well, Marxists deny that race is real.

01:28:10 – 01:28:11:	And that's true.

01:28:11 – 01:28:12:	They do that today.

01:28:12 – 01:28:17:	But you have to realize, as we mentioned in previous episodes, you can go back to the

01:28:17 – 01:28:21:	immediately previous episode, Marxism is a mercenary ideology.

01:28:21 – 01:28:24:	It is ends seeking.

01:28:24 – 01:28:31:	It has no actual core when it comes to principles or anything like that.

01:28:31 – 01:28:35:	And so there is no standard to which you can hold it.

01:28:35 – 01:28:40:	It has a goal in mind, and it will do whatever it takes to reach that goal, of course,

01:28:40 – 01:28:41:	the goal is unobtainable.

01:28:41 – 01:28:46:	It's a utopia, which for those who know a little bit of Greek know that utopia means not

01:28:46 – 01:28:47:	a place.

01:28:47 – 01:28:49:	That's why it's a joke.

01:28:49 – 01:28:55:	But the early Marxist theorists, including Marx, were all very firmly in the race-realist

01:28:55 – 01:28:58:	camp.

01:28:58 – 01:29:03:	I have a number of quotes here I'm looking at from Marx, and he at the very least addresses

01:29:03 – 01:29:08:	the German, the Jewish, and I will say the African, because I am not going to use the

01:29:08 – 01:29:12:	word that he did, races.

01:29:12 – 01:29:18:	And so you have race realism from them in the beginning, and you have an explicit argument

01:29:18 – 01:29:23:	from the Marxist theorists that you have to destroy these distinctions.

01:29:23 – 01:29:32:	Because the goal is a creation of an undifferentiated global humanity, without borders, without differences,

01:29:32 – 01:29:37:	all of one class, of course, is all impossible to achieve.

01:29:37 – 01:29:42:	But that's the goal, and because it's what we said earlier in the episode, in this episode,

01:29:42 – 01:29:43:	it's babble.

01:29:43 – 01:29:46:	They want to remake babble.

01:29:46 – 01:29:50:	Their goals are wicked, and they will do whatever it takes to get there.

01:29:50 – 01:29:54:	Early on, they affirm the races, because they will have to affirm the reality in order

01:29:54 – 01:29:57:	to argue that they need to be destroyed.

01:29:57 – 01:30:01:	Now that they have made some progress toward the ends of destruction, they argue they don't

01:30:01 – 01:30:08:	exist, and so you shouldn't do anything that recognizes that you have a racial identity

01:30:08 – 01:30:13:	that you're a member of a nation, because they want to deny the reality of God's good

01:30:13 – 01:30:20:	creation and restore the wickedness of babble.

01:30:20 – 01:30:21:	That is the end goal.

01:30:21 – 01:30:25:	The end goal is rebellion against God in subversion.

01:30:25 – 01:30:28:	That is what all of this is, and that is why we are discussing the issue.

01:30:28 – 01:30:34:	We discuss these issues, because Christians have to know where the battlefield is, and

01:30:34 – 01:30:39:	what is being fought, the issues over which we are actually fighting.

01:30:39 – 01:30:43:	Because if you're standing on a different battlefield, where the enemy isn't there,

01:30:43 – 01:30:46:	it doesn't matter what you do, you've lost.

01:30:46 – 01:30:49:	Because the enemy is attacking the other side of the city.

01:30:49 – 01:30:52:	And that is why we will keep harping on issues like this.

01:30:52 – 01:30:57:	We will keep addressing these issues, because these are the things that are important.

01:30:57 – 01:31:02:	If they do not get addressed, if Christians do not realize the reality of what is happening,

01:31:02 – 01:31:07:	of what the enemy is doing, then it doesn't matter how true you believe you are being,

01:31:07 – 01:31:11:	to scripture, to the faith, to God.

01:31:11 – 01:31:16:	Because you are not opposing the things that Satan is attacking, you are not defending

01:31:16 – 01:31:19:	where Satan is attacking you.

01:31:19 – 01:31:21:	And that is what we want Christians to do.

01:31:21 – 01:31:23:	The church has to be defended.

01:31:23 – 01:31:26:	That is one of the duties of a Christian man is to defend the church.

01:31:26 – 01:31:29:	To defend his family.

01:31:29 – 01:31:33:	And you cannot do that if you do not understand the enemy, if you do not know when the enemy

01:31:33 – 01:31:36:	is going to attack and where he is attacking.

01:31:36 – 01:31:39:	That is why we address these issues.

01:31:39 – 01:31:43:	We don't address the issue because we're obsessed with it because we find it particularly

01:31:43 – 01:31:45:	interesting or anything like that.

01:31:45 – 01:31:50:	If not for the fact that the enemy is attacking here, we probably wouldn't dedicate any time

01:31:50 – 01:31:52:	to this stuff.

01:31:52 – 01:31:57:	But because the enemy is attacking it, because Christians are caught on aware, that is why

01:31:57 – 01:32:00:	we are addressing these issues.

01:32:00 – 01:32:05:	And so we need you to listen carefully to what it is we're saying and what it is we

01:32:05 – 01:32:07:	are not saying.

01:32:07 – 01:32:12:	To read through the materials in the show notes if you need the additional context.

01:32:12 – 01:32:15:	And yes, if you still have questions, please do send those.

01:32:15 – 01:32:19:	We are reading them, we do, we know we have a backlog of them, we will address them

01:32:19 – 01:32:23:	as we have time and as they come up.

01:32:23 – 01:32:29:	But it is important for Christians to understand what is going on in the world.

01:32:29 – 01:32:35:	You are not called simply to be as harmless as a dove, but also to be as wise as a serpent.

01:32:35 – 01:32:37:	And this is part of that.

01:32:37 – 01:32:41:	So pay careful attention, do your homework and ask questions.