WEBVTT 00:00:37.120 --> 00:00:39.440 Welcome to the Stone Choir Podcast. 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:40.480 I am Corey J. 00:00:40.480 --> 00:00:42.800 Mahler. And I'm Wo. 00:00:43.440 --> 00:00:47.120 Today we are going to be discussing a uh subject that we 00:00:47.120 --> 00:00:50.640 have mentioned numerous times in previous episodes, that is race. 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:55.440 Uh this week's episode and next week's episode will both be specifically 00:00:55.440 --> 00:00:57.360 about the subject of race. 00:00:57.360 --> 00:00:59.920 Now before you delete this episode and fast forward and just say 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:02.080 I don't want to hear that crap, I'd like to give a 00:01:02.080 --> 00:01:05.360 preamble and a a a plea to those who are listening to 00:01:05.600 --> 00:01:08.720 please bear with us before you decide that this is something that's 00:01:08.720 --> 00:01:11.440 just taxing on your mind and you don't want to hear it. 00:01:11.440 --> 00:01:15.040 Uh it's understandable if that was your first response, if you heard 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:17.440 me say race and you're like, I'm out of here. 00:01:17.440 --> 00:01:20.080 I don't want to hear any of this stuff. 00:01:20.080 --> 00:01:23.840 There are basically three groups of people that you have ever heard 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:26.320 discussing race in your life. 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:32.000 First are the atheists, uh, they're the scientists, they're the evolutionists who 00:01:32.160 --> 00:01:38.800 unfortunately have most of the data about these things, about the scientific, 00:01:38.800 --> 00:01:42.640 and again, as we've mentioned in the past, scientific means it's scantia 00:01:42.720 --> 00:01:43.600 from Latin knowledge. 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:48.720 Science is not simply about hypothesizing, it's not about theories. 00:01:48.720 --> 00:01:51.200 Science is fundamentally about facts. 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:57.360 And while the atheist evolutionist scientists who deal with the subject of 00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:03.600 race specifically in terms of genetics often have theories that are contrary 00:02:03.600 --> 00:02:04.800 to scripture. 00:02:04.800 --> 00:02:07.760 That doesn't mean that the underlying data is false. 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:11.200 And so today we're going to be discussing the underlying data and 00:02:11.200 --> 00:02:14.720 we're going to present our own conclusions from that data that is 00:02:14.720 --> 00:02:16.720 consistent with scripture. 00:02:16.720 --> 00:02:19.040 So that's the reason you haven't heard this before. 00:02:19.040 --> 00:02:22.400 You haven't heard someone who's willing to engage with the facts and 00:02:22.720 --> 00:02:26.640 then willing to look at scripture and m see where they fit 00:02:26.640 --> 00:02:31.440 together because what a scientist discovers in a lab by looking at 00:02:31.440 --> 00:02:33.520 DNA is a real thing. 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:35.200 It's actually true. 00:02:35.200 --> 00:02:40.240 And if they have evolutionary givens that that cause them to apply 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:44.880 false theories to reach incorrect conclusions, that doesn't mean that the data's 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:46.960 bad. It means that their conclusions are bad. 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:49.760 So we're going to discuss the data in our own terms. 00:02:49.760 --> 00:02:52.960 And it's not that far from what they're saying, but it's probably 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:55.280 pretty far from what you've heard before. 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:58.000 So that's group one, the evolutionists. 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:01.520 Group two, the you've heard before, are based on the Marxists, people 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:05.200 who will not really let you pin them down on what race 00:03:05.200 --> 00:03:06.400 actually means. 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:09.280 They'll just tell you that it's they'll basically use it as a 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:14.320 weapon. They're gonna swing some aspect of race or racism or whatever 00:03:14.320 --> 00:03:20.240 they're talking about, specifically as a political cudgel, within a conversation to 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:24.320 demean one group or to elevate another group or to set true 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:25.760 two groups against each other politically 00:03:26.880 --> 00:03:28.560 and it's a huge turnoff. 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:29.840 It's incredibly aggravating. 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:32.880 You've probably un been on the receiving end of some of those 00:03:32.880 --> 00:03:36.480 lies. And so when you hear race, you think I'm sick of 00:03:36.480 --> 00:03:37.040 this crap. 00:03:37.040 --> 00:03:38.320 I don't want to hear it anymore. 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:39.360 That's not us. 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:40.560 We're not evolutionists. 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:41.520 We're not Marxists. 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:44.320 We're not using this as a cudgel. 00:03:44.320 --> 00:03:47.200 And the third group is frankly probably the group that you were 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:50.880 in as a Christian who I'm going to call you naive, but 00:03:50.880 --> 00:03:52.560 it's not meant to be demeaning or insulting. 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:54.480 It's just you've never looked at this stuff. 00:03:54.480 --> 00:03:55.040 You don't care. 00:03:55.040 --> 00:03:56.720 You don't think it applies to your life. 00:03:56.720 --> 00:04:02.880 And so you haven't delved deeply into the facts that underlie the 00:04:02.880 --> 00:04:05.280 history of the subject. 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:09.120 The reason that that's a problem is that when a Christian ignores 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:13.680 the facts related to race, as a Christian, you're going to then 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:15.520 simply turn to scripture. 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:21.120 And so it's very easy for Christians who ignore the facts, look 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:26.080 at scripture to re s it reach incorrect conclusions that sound scriptural, 00:04:26.080 --> 00:04:27.520 but they're nonsense. 00:04:27.520 --> 00:04:30.960 And we're doing this episode specifically to try to get people over 00:04:30.960 --> 00:04:35.520 the hurdle of saying things like one race the human race, as 00:04:35.520 --> 00:04:41.280 though that precludes the possibility that there are subdivisions among humans. 00:04:41.280 --> 00:04:45.200 To say that that doesn't exist is to contradict scripture. 00:04:45.200 --> 00:04:48.640 And so this episode is actually going to be broken into two 00:04:48.640 --> 00:04:53.520 parts. Today, this first episode on race is specifically going to deal 00:04:53.520 --> 00:04:55.440 with the scientific basis. 00:04:55.440 --> 00:04:58.080 Uh, it's going to be in episodes that's a little bit unusual 00:04:58.080 --> 00:05:00.960 from some of the others, is in that we don't talk much 00:05:00.960 --> 00:05:04.320 about scripture, but we're going to talk a fair amount about Genesis, 00:05:04.320 --> 00:05:07.440 particularly Genesis 1 through Genesis 11. 00:05:07.440 --> 00:05:10.560 So from the creation through the Tower of Babel, and then we'll 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:15.120 extrapolate a little bit from then more into recorded human history as 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:18.800 that we get records from elsewhere and archaeological evidence. 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:22.320 But we're not gonna rely very heavily on scripture. 00:05:22.320 --> 00:05:26.880 And in particular, we're not going to address any of the soteriological 00:05:26.880 --> 00:05:31.600 disputes of the notions of race, of the claim of race, of 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:33.200 the fact of race. 00:05:33.200 --> 00:05:37.680 So if as we're going along, you have in mind Galatians three 00:05:37.840 --> 00:05:41.360 twenty-eight, which said that there's neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:44.720 slave more nor free, there is no male and female for all 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:47.760 in one in car in Christ Jesus. 00:05:47.760 --> 00:05:52.000 I'm going to ask you for the the sake of argument to 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:53.840 simply set that aside. 00:05:53.840 --> 00:05:56.400 We're going to address it in the second episode. 00:05:56.400 --> 00:05:58.160 We're going to address it in detail. 00:05:58.160 --> 00:05:59.840 That could be an episode all by itself. 00:05:59.840 --> 00:06:03.840 We could do multiple episodes just on Galatians 328. 00:06:03.840 --> 00:06:05.760 We're not going to address it today. 00:06:05.760 --> 00:06:09.840 So if as we go along you find yourself shouting at your 00:06:09.840 --> 00:06:13.120 your phone or whatever, there's neither Jew nor Greek. 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:14.320 We're gonna get to that. 00:06:14.320 --> 00:06:16.720 That's not remotely what that passage means. 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:20.160 It's not a refutation of what we're saying in this episode. 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:23.920 So that's basically just a preamble as a plea to hear the 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:27.120 whole thing out before you decide that we fall into one of 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:30.480 the first two buckets of either the evolutionists or the Marxist, uh 00:06:30.640 --> 00:06:34.160 which is what some people online, particularly a number of pastors have 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:37.680 accused us of, uh, mainly to discredit us and say that we're 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:41.840 hateful and we're not Christian at all Corey and I fall into 00:06:41.840 --> 00:06:42.800 a fourth group. 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:45.920 Men that have looked at this stuff have studied it. 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:50.320 Because we see that the world cares, we see that Satan cares. 00:06:50.320 --> 00:06:53.520 You as a Christian may not think their race has anything to 00:06:53.520 --> 00:06:57.920 do with with your life or with salvation or with how God 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:01.200 operates in the world, Satan feels differently. 00:07:01.200 --> 00:07:04.160 And you can tell that even right this moment, before you've heard 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:06.880 anything else we have to say in any of our arguments, you 00:07:06.880 --> 00:07:09.840 can tell that Satan cares because you can't get away from this 00:07:09.840 --> 00:07:11.040 damn subject. 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:15.120 That tells you that Satan has a skin in the game when 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:17.360 it comes to the subject of race. 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:20.720 Now, the hurdle that we're hoping to get people over is the 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:24.160 idea that talking about it at all is evil. 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:26.560 We obviously don't believe that or we wouldn't be talking about it. 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:30.080 if we believe that we were saying something evil, you know, if 00:07:30.080 --> 00:07:32.880 we were Christians, we would shut our mouths, we wouldn't say it. 00:07:32.880 --> 00:07:35.440 So I simply ask for you to bear with us for this 00:07:35.440 --> 00:07:37.200 episode and the next episode. 00:07:37.200 --> 00:07:39.680 And if at the end of that you find that we have 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:43.600 been evolutionists and Marxists all along, that's fine, you can reach that 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:46.240 conclusion. Just hear our argument first. 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:49.440 So with that out of the way, we're going to begin with, 00:07:49.440 --> 00:07:54.960 as I mentioned, the the first fundamental misconception that is widely applied 00:07:54.960 --> 00:07:58.640 among Christians, and that is that there is one race, the human 00:07:58.640 --> 00:07:59.280 race. 00:07:59.840 --> 00:08:00.000 And 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:04.160 so the argument that we often hear from Christians when it comes 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:08.160 to race, as stated, is one race, the human race. 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:12.000 And the underlying argument for that is that because we are all 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:17.920 ultimately descended from Adam, we are all of the race of Adam. 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:21.760 The problem with that statement is that it is both true and 00:08:21.760 --> 00:08:26.400 false. It is true because to speak of men as the race 00:08:26.400 --> 00:08:29.200 of Adam is accurate. 00:08:29.200 --> 00:08:32.480 But to then conclude from that that all men are of the 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:38.320 same race is to equivocate with regard to the term race. 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:45.120 Race can refer to various levels in the hierarchy in the ancestry 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:47.520 of a particular life form. 00:08:47.520 --> 00:08:50.800 And so for instance, a good example would be you can speak 00:08:50.800 --> 00:08:52.720 of the race of dogs. 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:55.440 Usually for dogs, yes, we call them breed instead, but it's the 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:57.920 same thing, same concept here. 00:08:57.920 --> 00:09:01.520 If you speak of the breed of golden retriever, you are speaking 00:09:01.520 --> 00:09:05.040 of something more specific than just dog. 00:09:05.040 --> 00:09:11.280 They're all dogs, so a golden retriever, a Pomeranian, a Rotweiler, these 00:09:11.280 --> 00:09:12.960 are all dogs. 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:16.240 But they are different breeds of dog, the same The same for 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:22.000 humans, you can speak of the race of Adam, human beings, as 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:26.000 being one species, because we are in fact one species, by any 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:31.360 reasonable definition of that term, all of humanity, one species, the race 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:33.120 of Adam. 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:39.600 But we have over time, according to God's good ordering of creation, 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:43.760 become separate races, distinct from each other. 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:48.720 Because as we moved, we adapted to the areas where we started 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:49.360 to live. 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:50.800 God designed it that way. 00:09:50.800 --> 00:09:51.680 It's very clear. 00:09:51.680 --> 00:09:55.120 He gave us the order, be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:55.840 and subdue it. 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:57.200 That was what we were supposed to do. 00:09:57.200 --> 00:10:00.080 Different groups move to different areas. 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:04.560 And so as that happened, you have the creation of the different 00:10:04.560 --> 00:10:06.800 races as they exist today. 00:10:06.800 --> 00:10:11.520 Now, of course, the real genesis of this is in Genesis 00:10:12.880 --> 00:10:14.640 is right after the flood. 00:10:14.640 --> 00:10:20.000 And the reason we have a real break there is because you 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:23.840 have obviously from Adam and Eve up until the time of the 00:10:23.840 --> 00:10:26.880 flood, you have man proliferating over the face of the earth. 00:10:26.880 --> 00:10:29.120 There are various genetic differences over time. 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:32.480 We don't know as much about the antideluvians as we do about 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:35.760 those who've come after the flood, of course, that would be us 00:10:35.760 --> 00:10:41.280 in the latter category, but you have a bottleneck, and that bottleneck 00:10:41.280 --> 00:10:46.000 is Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives. 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:49.040 We don't know the genealogy of their wives. 00:10:49.040 --> 00:10:53.760 Much of the genetic variation we see today probably came from the 00:10:53.760 --> 00:10:55.600 wives of Noah's sons. 00:10:55.600 --> 00:11:00.480 Because obviously Noah's sons very closely genetically related. 00:11:00.640 --> 00:11:04.320 The wives, not necessarily so closely related. 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:07.520 And they spread out after they got off the Ark. 00:11:07.520 --> 00:11:12.080 The Ark came to land in Mount Ararat, which our best guess 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:16.000 is eastern Turkey, or maybe a little over the border of Turkey, 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:17.360 right in that area. 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:18.880 And that bears out. 00:11:18.880 --> 00:11:23.520 If you look at the DNA of the various human groups, if 00:11:23.520 --> 00:11:26.400 you look at how related we are and to whom we're related, 00:11:26.400 --> 00:11:30.640 you can see that we spread out from basically Turkey. 00:11:30.640 --> 00:11:35.920 The old out of Africa hypothesis was not wildly wrong, it was 00:11:35.920 --> 00:11:37.840 off by several thousand miles. 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:42.560 Because the art came to land in roughly modern day Turkey. 00:11:42.560 --> 00:11:45.680 Europeans are descended from Japheth. 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:52.080 Jap moved north and west, filled Europe, Eventually some became sailors and 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:56.240 also filled the southern end of the Mediterranean, which would be North 00:11:56.240 --> 00:12:02.400 Africa. The Shemites stayed in the Middle East and also moved eastward 00:12:02.640 --> 00:12:07.840 into what is today Asia, and the Hamites moved south, through Egypt, 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:09.760 and then into Africa. 00:12:09.760 --> 00:12:12.400 Probably assume that the Sahara was not quite as big at the 00:12:12.400 --> 00:12:15.520 time, so it was more passable. 00:12:15.520 --> 00:12:19.280 And that is how you end up with the modern racial groups. 00:12:19.280 --> 00:12:23.920 They spread out from Noah's Ark, descended from the three patriarchs, and 00:12:23.920 --> 00:12:29.600 so you have essentially three major groupings of human beings, major divisions 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:30.880 of human races. 00:12:30.880 --> 00:12:34.560 Within that, yes, you have smaller divisions to go back again to 00:12:34.560 --> 00:12:38.160 the term of race and what it means, going from the smallest 00:12:38.160 --> 00:12:40.080 up to the greatest. 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:43.280 You could speak of the race of Germans. 00:12:43.920 --> 00:12:47.520 Then you could speak of the Germanic race, which would include the 00:12:47.520 --> 00:12:49.520 English and the Dutch and others. 00:12:49.520 --> 00:12:52.800 Then you could speak of the Japhethitic race, which would be Europeans 00:12:52.880 --> 00:12:54.640 descended from Japheth. 00:12:54.640 --> 00:12:59.360 Then you could speak of either Noah or Adamic race, which would 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:00.400 be all men. 00:13:00.400 --> 00:13:04.320 And so it's important to note how the term is being used, 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:08.320 and not to equivocate, not to conflate the different senses of this 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:13.040 term, because that is often deliberately misleading, but in many cases for 00:13:13.040 --> 00:13:17.680 Christians it is unintentionally misleading because there is a use of a 00:13:17.680 --> 00:13:21.280 term as if it were univocal when it is not. 00:13:21.280 --> 00:13:21.440 I 00:13:21.680 --> 00:13:25.840 I think one of the toughest things that Christians have to face 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:31.120 when looking seriously at the data about these matters is that as 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:35.600 I said, group one, the atheists and the evolutionists who do most 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:39.200 of the research, who control most of the publication. 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:43.600 Historically they haven't lied about the data, although that's happening today just 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:45.120 in the last five and ten years. 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:50.240 There's more deliberate fudging of the data, specifically to accord with what 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:53.600 Christians claim as their own morality, to say one race, the human 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:56.880 race. Today the scientists are now saying the same thing and they're 00:13:56.880 --> 00:14:01.920 altering their data to achieve that desired outcome when the data doesn't 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:02.720 support it. 00:14:03.040 --> 00:14:07.600 So as you delve into this, it's a real challenge because you're 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:11.920 forced to listen to people who are going to reach incorrect conclusions 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:14.320 based on their faulty givens. 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:18.640 And most people are not really equipped to to sort the good 00:14:18.640 --> 00:14:22.800 from the bad, to to look at data that itself is sound, 00:14:22.800 --> 00:14:26.640 is solid, like for example, genetic data that bears out what Corey 00:14:26.640 --> 00:14:32.400 just said about three different racial groups that are present in genetic 00:14:32.400 --> 00:14:36.960 data. You can you can look at someone's genes and determine based 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:41.200 on statistical analysis which of those major buckets they fall into. 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:44.960 And in fact, with a reasonable probability, which of the smaller buckets 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:46.240 they fall into. 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:49.360 It's not a hundred percent certain, but even when it's off by 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:51.440 a bit, it's not going to be off by much. 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:54.880 You're not going to look at the the DNA of a German 00:14:54.880 --> 00:14:57.200 and mistake him for a Ghanon. 00:14:57.200 --> 00:14:59.680 You will mistake him for a Frenchman. 00:14:59.680 --> 00:15:01.920 You could mistake him for an Englishman. 00:15:01.920 --> 00:15:04.480 You're probably not going to mistake him for a Bosnian. 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:07.520 And again, you're you're you're not going to mistake him as Japanese, 00:15:07.520 --> 00:15:09.040 even at the genetic level. 00:15:09.040 --> 00:15:10.400 You have no idea where it came from. 00:15:10.400 --> 00:15:13.600 Like it's just it's a blood sample that from which you extracted 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:17.840 DNA or epithelial where wherever you get your DNA sample, when you 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:20.240 profile it, this stuff is present. 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:22.800 And so you don't need to be a Christian to look at 00:15:22.800 --> 00:15:23.680 the data. 00:15:23.680 --> 00:15:27.840 And that's that's a hard part of this conversation because as I 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:34.480 said, the evolutionary atheists who were crunching the numbers will then reach 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:36.960 evolutionary atheist conclusions. 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:40.720 And for a Christian, when you're looking at it, you're faced with 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:45.520 sorting the true data from the false conclusions and the temptation is 00:15:45.520 --> 00:15:48.000 just to say, ah, this is all crap. 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:51.920 Because what you're looking at is, you know, a scientist who will 00:15:51.920 --> 00:15:54.880 say that the Earth is that the universe is 14 billion years 00:15:54.880 --> 00:15:57.680 old, Earth is four and a half billion years old. 00:15:57.680 --> 00:16:01.920 Life is a couple billion billion years old, and you had proteins 00:16:01.920 --> 00:16:05.600 that somehow became cells, and then a cell became a fish, and 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:08.480 then a fish became a monkey, and a monkey became a man, 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:10.560 and a man became a race of men. 00:16:10.560 --> 00:16:13.360 And as a Christian, you know that almost all of that is 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:17.280 nonsense. The earth is six thousand years old, and all the DNA 00:16:17.280 --> 00:16:20.720 in our bodies comes from Adam and comes from Noah and the 00:16:20.880 --> 00:16:22.720 the wives of Noah's sons. 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:23.120 That's a 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:26.240 scriptural fact. 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:28.240 It's also a scientific fact. 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:32.400 What the scientists get wrong are the time frames that are involved. 00:16:32.400 --> 00:16:35.360 And so when you're looking at the raw data, you're going to 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:38.160 find a bunch of erroneous conclusions. 00:16:38.160 --> 00:16:38.480 And 00:16:39.680 --> 00:16:42.000 I think that for a lot of people, I we're ho we're 00:16:41.920 --> 00:16:44.720 ho we're doing this episode in the hope that you can at 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:49.440 least take a basis for being able to understand these questions in 00:16:49.520 --> 00:16:55.120 in a Christian fashion that is not at odds with the scientific 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:58.080 facts. If at the end of this you just throw up your 00:16:58.080 --> 00:17:00.480 hands and say, I don't I have no idea what's going on. 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:04.000 I can't make heads or tails out of it, honestly, that's okay. 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:07.280 Not everyone is equipped to be able to actually wrap their heads 00:17:07.280 --> 00:17:08.400 around this stuff. 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:10.640 What I what I would say to you is that if you 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:13.520 personally get to the end of what we're saying and say I 00:17:13.520 --> 00:17:17.760 can't make heads or tails of it, that's fine, but you should 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:23.040 in the future, when you hear discussions of race, refrain from participating. 00:17:23.040 --> 00:17:26.320 Because what you're saying is, I don't know enough to be even 00:17:26.320 --> 00:17:27.840 be able to reach a conclusion. 00:17:27.840 --> 00:17:31.200 And what we're trying to say is that there are conclusions that 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:34.560 can be reached that are consistent with scripture that are also consistent 00:17:34.560 --> 00:17:35.440 with the facts. 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:36.320 Because guess what? 00:17:36.320 --> 00:17:38.320 That's what the truth means. 00:17:38.320 --> 00:17:42.000 The truth from God, the truth that is revealed in scripture, and 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:46.240 the truth that is revealed in creation are all of one spirit. 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:47.920 It's all the same thing. 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:50.800 And the fact that there are scientists who are atheists who come 00:17:50.800 --> 00:17:55.680 along and butcher the facts of creation doesn't alter creation. 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:58.240 It just means that they're telling lies about it. 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:01.680 And so as we discuss this, it's important to tease those out. 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:05.680 So as Corey said, everything became with Adam, began with Adam. 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:09.840 All of the genes in every single human being today came from 00:18:09.840 --> 00:18:11.840 within Adam's body. 00:18:11.840 --> 00:18:14.320 Eve was created from Adam. 00:18:14.320 --> 00:18:16.640 We have no reason to believe that there was any portion of 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:19.280 Eve that did not come for directly from him. 00:18:19.280 --> 00:18:22.480 In fact, I would say it's it is arguably a heresy to 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:25.200 say that there is a single cell in her body that was 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:27.120 not derived from Adam. 00:18:27.120 --> 00:18:30.880 Now, it's important to note when as we go down this path 00:18:31.600 --> 00:18:37.520 that when we're talking about inheritance and we're talking about relation, you 00:18:37.520 --> 00:18:40.320 get half of your DNA from your father and half of your 00:18:40.320 --> 00:18:42.000 DNA from your mother. 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:45.920 What that implies is that half of your father's DNA is not 00:18:45.920 --> 00:18:49.120 inside you because the other half came from your mother. 00:18:49.120 --> 00:18:52.800 You have forty six chromosomes, you get twenty three from each of 00:18:52.800 --> 00:18:56.880 them. As you go back generationally, you know, when you go back 00:18:57.200 --> 00:18:58.800 generations are powers of two. 00:18:59.520 --> 00:18:59.840 So 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:04.400 one generation back means that 50-50, that's one half. 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:08.480 Two generations back is one quarter, so 25%. 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:11.760 If you go back seven generations, you're at less than one percent 00:19:12.320 --> 00:19:15.360 because two to the seventh is a hundred and twenty-eight. 00:19:15.360 --> 00:19:19.760 So you're looking at one one hundred and twenty-eighth of the available 00:19:19.760 --> 00:19:23.920 genetic data from your great great great great great grandfather in your 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:24.960 own body. 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:28.800 What that means is that there's a there's a 50-50 chance that 00:19:28.800 --> 00:19:33.680 you'll have a shot at having some of their DNA in you. 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:36.640 Now, this is important for two reasons. 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:40.720 One, it's possible if you go back far enough that you may 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:43.600 not have any of the specific genes from one of your own 00:19:43.600 --> 00:19:46.480 ancestors. This is very common and it's something that shows up when 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:48.400 genetic analysis is being done. 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:51.920 If you go back not too many generations, it's possible simply to 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:54.560 lose the thread of relation. 00:19:54.560 --> 00:19:57.600 Not because you're not related to them, but that just that there 00:19:57.600 --> 00:20:00.720 were no specific genes coming from them. 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:03.200 On the other hand, the second vital point is 00:20:04.080 --> 00:20:11.120 that all humans are approximately something like 99.2, 99.5% the same 00:20:11.120 --> 00:20:14.720 genetically. This is one of the arguments that's made for one race, 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:19.360 the human race, saying all the genetic variation among various human groups 00:20:19.360 --> 00:20:22.160 is in that last per half percent. 00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:26.960 The reason that's misleading is that chimpanzees are about ninety-eight point eight 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:30.960 percent the same as human DNA, which is why the evolutionary scientists 00:20:31.280 --> 00:20:36.080 will say fish, monkey, man, race, because they see the similarity between 00:20:36.080 --> 00:20:38.720 the monkey and the man and say, well, clearly they came from 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:39.680 the same place. 00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:40.720 As Christians, we know 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:41.280 that's not the case. 00:20:41.520 --> 00:20:47.040 And even more ridiculously, dog are ninety-four percent. 00:20:47.040 --> 00:20:50.080 So is is it one is it one race, the mammal race? 00:20:50.080 --> 00:20:52.160 Cats are ninety percent. 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:57.120 And to give people an idea of how little DNA varies even 00:20:57.120 --> 00:21:03.360 across species, fruit flies are 60% the same as human beings. 00:21:03.360 --> 00:21:08.640 So it does not take a huge difference in order to well, 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:11.680 it doesn't take a huge difference genetically in order to have a 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:17.120 significant difference phenotypically, which is the expression of course of the genotype. 00:21:17.120 --> 00:21:20.080 Yeah. In fact in some cases for humans it can be as 00:21:20.080 --> 00:21:21.520 little as one base pair. 00:21:22.320 --> 00:21:23.120 Yes. 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:28.240 What that tells us is that God likes patterns. 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:29.440 He likes repetition. 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:31.200 We see this everywhere in the universe. 00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:33.440 Galaxies all have similar structures. 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:37.840 Galaxies all have different structures too, but they're variations on a theme. 00:21:37.840 --> 00:21:41.680 You know, it's just like Beethoven or Bach when they're writing their 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:46.240 magnificent works, they will begin with a phrase and then they'll build 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:50.640 it and they'll evolve it and they'll grow it into something magnificent 00:21:50.720 --> 00:21:53.680 and then we'll stall start all over again and they'll do the 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:57.040 same sort of process and reach something that begins with the same 00:21:57.040 --> 00:22:00.080 basic theme, the same phrase, but it takes it in a very 00:22:00.080 --> 00:22:01.040 different direction. 00:22:01.280 --> 00:22:05.200 But you'll hear those same echoes throughout the entire piece. 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:07.840 That's a reflection of what God does in creation. 00:22:07.840 --> 00:22:12.640 So the fact that monkeys are 98.8% the same as humans doesn't 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:14.960 mean that we're related in the sense that we have a common 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:18.080 ancestor. It means that we're related by the fact that we have 00:22:18.080 --> 00:22:19.120 the same creator. 00:22:19.120 --> 00:22:22.160 And God created mammals in one sense. 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:26.640 And then he created lobsters and he created all these weird things 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:29.360 that have all these varieties and variations. 00:22:29.360 --> 00:22:32.000 That's according to God's good creation. 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:38.960 And we can say that a chihuahua and a healer are subspecies, 00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:42.160 we're terrified to say that human races are subspecies. 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:47.280 We completely preclude the idea of subspecies when talking about human beings, 00:22:47.280 --> 00:22:50.640 in part because of the implications. 00:22:50.640 --> 00:22:52.400 Does it mean that an African 00:22:54.080 --> 00:22:59.360 somehow has a different degree of value than a European or an 00:22:59.360 --> 00:23:01.760 Asian? That's a moral question. 00:23:01.760 --> 00:23:04.640 And the answer before God is no. 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:07.680 That's never going to be an argument you're going to hear from 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:08.800 either of us. 00:23:08.800 --> 00:23:11.600 Jesus died for all Homo sapiens. 00:23:11.600 --> 00:23:14.640 Jesus died for every descendant of Adam. 00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:17.680 That's all of us, regardless of any of these differences that we're 00:23:17.600 --> 00:23:21.440 talking about in these episodes, we will never make any argument that 00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:25.760 says, well, this man is different than from this man, therefore, God 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:29.040 cares about this man and doesn't care about this man. 00:23:29.040 --> 00:23:32.960 That's absolutely the polar opposite of why we're talking about it in 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:34.320 the first place. 00:23:34.320 --> 00:23:36.160 We're talking about it because 00:23:37.280 --> 00:23:41.680 Satan is using this as a wedge to divide Christ's church and 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:45.440 to divide all of humanity in ways that are unnatural. 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:48.160 Now there are natural divisions, and that is what race is. 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:50.080 Race is a natural division. 00:23:50.080 --> 00:23:53.840 As you look from Babel, what was the story of Babel? 00:23:53.840 --> 00:23:57.040 The people who all shared a common language when they were told 00:23:57.040 --> 00:24:00.880 by God, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:03.120 it. They said, No, we're not going anywhere. 00:24:03.120 --> 00:24:05.200 We're going to build a tower that's going to be a monument 00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:06.320 to our own greatness. 00:24:06.320 --> 00:24:09.680 It's going to keep us together in this place, and we will 00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:10.640 be as God. 00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:15.120 We will be magnificent, and everyone will respect us for how unified 00:24:15.120 --> 00:24:16.560 we are. 00:24:16.560 --> 00:24:18.960 That is the spirit of this age. 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:22.720 One race, the human race, is the cry of Babel. 00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:27.280 God was so infuriated at the evil of Babel that he came 00:24:27.280 --> 00:24:30.960 down to earth and he deliberately confused the languages of men so 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:33.920 that they couldn't talk to each other each other anymore. 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:36.720 Suddenly one man could not speak to another at all. 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:37.440 You have one guy speaking 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:41.920 proto-Germanic and another guy speaking proto-Japanese. 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:43.520 They're aliens to each other. 00:24:43.520 --> 00:24:46.160 Even though by blood they're related, God said, You know what? 00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:47.440 You didn't go your separate ways. 00:24:47.440 --> 00:24:50.080 I'm gonna separate you because you're never going to be able to 00:24:50.080 --> 00:24:51.120 communicate again. 00:24:51.120 --> 00:24:51.920 And they did. 00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:55.760 That was what it finally took was the division of language to 00:24:55.760 --> 00:25:01.280 separate groups which were then still fairly closely related because they'd they'd 00:25:01.360 --> 00:25:03.520 only recently come off the arc. 00:25:03.520 --> 00:25:05.600 We I don't know if we know how many generations, but it 00:25:05.600 --> 00:25:07.440 wasn't very long. 00:25:07.440 --> 00:25:11.840 Those people were scattered across the face of the earth by God 00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:15.040 because they were crying one race the human race. 00:25:15.040 --> 00:25:18.000 God said, this is evil, I am stopping it now. 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:19.360 And so what did he do? 00:25:19.360 --> 00:25:24.080 According to Acts 17, 26, he appointed the boundaries of men and 00:25:24.080 --> 00:25:27.360 their dwelling the boundaries of their dwelling places and the numbers of 00:25:27.360 --> 00:25:28.080 their days. 00:25:28.080 --> 00:25:30.160 He said, You're gonna go here and you're gonna go there. 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:34.640 And as I mentioned before, you can look at a topographical map 00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:40.000 of Europe and you can see Norway, Sweden, and Finland from space 00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:41.600 in the topography. 00:25:41.600 --> 00:25:46.000 You can see the mountain range that divide the nor the Norsemen 00:25:46.080 --> 00:25:47.520 from the Swede. 00:25:47.520 --> 00:25:51.120 You can see the mountain range that divides the Portuguese from the 00:25:51.120 --> 00:25:54.720 Spanish. If you just look at a at a political map of 00:25:54.560 --> 00:25:58.400 of Portugal and Spain, you're like, why is that little sliver there 00:25:58.400 --> 00:25:59.120 a separate country? 00:25:59.120 --> 00:26:00.560 It never made any sense to me. 00:26:00.560 --> 00:26:03.280 I was I was many years old when I finally saw this 00:26:03.280 --> 00:26:04.320 topographical map. 00:26:04.320 --> 00:26:06.480 I'm like, holy crap, I see Portugal. 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:08.000 Now God did that. 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:11.520 God made those mountain ranges and he sent men to those places. 00:26:11.520 --> 00:26:14.400 And what happened when they went to those places? 00:26:14.400 --> 00:26:16.080 They became isolated. 00:26:16.080 --> 00:26:20.720 First they were isolated by language, as God ordained, and then through 00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:27.760 the process of interbreeding and intermarrying, the genetic content in their bodies 00:26:27.760 --> 00:26:29.440 became winnowed. 00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:32.800 So the men who were descended from Adam and from Noah who 00:26:32.800 --> 00:26:36.880 went to Norway got more and more pale because the genes for 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:40.640 them to lose the expression of for melanin that would cause them 00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:45.840 to reject most vitamin D in their skins went away. 00:26:45.840 --> 00:26:48.720 Now a Norseman who moves to the equator is not going to 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:50.320 suddenly turn black again. 00:26:50.320 --> 00:26:53.920 It was a one-way trip, just as you cannot take a chihuahua 00:26:54.160 --> 00:26:56.480 and turn him back into a wolf. 00:26:56.480 --> 00:27:00.240 Even though I think that personally, I think it's arguable that if 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:03.760 you look at the species that were on the ark, I don't 00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:07.120 think that you had a wolf and a coyote and a German 00:27:07.120 --> 00:27:09.920 shepherd, even though those all look very similar. 00:27:09.920 --> 00:27:12.080 They all have a same common ancestor. 00:27:12.080 --> 00:27:16.560 And see the the evolutionist will tell you that ancestor is you 00:27:16.560 --> 00:27:19.440 know tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of years in the past. 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:21.600 The Christian will say, well, the earth is about six thousand years 00:27:21.600 --> 00:27:23.040 old, so that doesn't make sense. 00:27:23.040 --> 00:27:26.240 And all the a all the mammals were killed except for those 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:28.640 that were two by two on the ark. 00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:32.080 So forty five hundred years ago we have this choke point where 00:27:32.080 --> 00:27:35.520 all the genes of all the creatures that live on land or 00:27:35.520 --> 00:27:38.080 fly were placed on the ark. 00:27:38.080 --> 00:27:41.520 Personally, I believe that there was a wolf or a proto wolf 00:27:41.520 --> 00:27:45.520 on the arc, and that all of the speciation of the wolf, 00:27:45.520 --> 00:27:51.120 the coyote, the dog, the fox, everything downstream from the wolf classification 00:27:52.080 --> 00:27:55.360 genetically came from that pair. 00:27:55.360 --> 00:27:57.840 And as they went their separate ways and they went to their 00:27:57.840 --> 00:28:01.600 separate areas where God had ordained for the Arctic fox to live 00:28:01.600 --> 00:28:03.440 here and the desert fox to live here. 00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:07.920 They're both foxes, but they're very differently equipped genetically. 00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:10.880 And human beings work the same way. 00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:14.000 Not that we're foxes, not that we're dogs, but that we're creatures, 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:18.160 that we're God's creatures, and in his infinite wisdom, he gave Adam 00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:22.000 the genetic material to fill the entire year Earth. 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:26.960 So when we talk about race, it is not a denial of 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:30.160 creation, it's not a denial of the six-day creation or of the 00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:31.840 six thousand year history of Earth. 00:28:32.560 --> 00:28:36.640 And it's not to say that human beings are just another animal 00:28:36.640 --> 00:28:40.160 like all the rest, but we do behave in similar ways because 00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:42.080 we're all made from the same stuff. 00:28:42.400 --> 00:28:46.160 And the genes that God gave us work in the same ways. 00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:49.520 And one of the values of looking at things like dogs is 00:28:49.520 --> 00:28:54.480 because they have much shorter gestational periods, you can get, you know, 00:28:54.480 --> 00:28:56.880 most of the dog species, subspecies today 00:28:57.840 --> 00:28:59.680 didn't exist 200 years ago. 00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:03.600 They all have a common ancestor that's almost in living memory. 00:29:03.600 --> 00:29:07.360 If you get a really old person who remembers another really old 00:29:07.360 --> 00:29:10.800 person from their family, they can probably that person would be able 00:29:10.800 --> 00:29:14.480 to remember the ancestor of all the dogs today. 00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:16.720 Even though that person 200 years ago, if he looked at a 00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:18.400 chihuahua and looked at a St. 00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:20.560 Bernard, like, what is this stuff? 00:29:20.560 --> 00:29:21.440 I have no idea. 00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:22.880 It looks like nothing I've ever seen. 00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:25.760 Genetically, they all came from the same place. 00:29:25.760 --> 00:29:28.960 We're talking about the same thing with people, and that's not a 00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:32.240 denial of humanity, and it's not a denial of salvation. 00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:35.680 It's saying that this is how God has chosen to work in 00:29:35.680 --> 00:29:40.400 the last forty five hundred years since since the flood in human 00:29:40.400 --> 00:29:44.320 lives. And that's one of the big hurdles because the data sounds 00:29:44.320 --> 00:29:48.400 atheist, but the conclusions are entirely consistent from s with scripture, and 00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:51.760 they're also entirely consistent with observable reality. 00:29:51.760 --> 00:29:54.560 And that's something that I hope people will take away from this 00:29:54.560 --> 00:29:58.560 discussion is that we're not talking about theories, we're not talking about 00:29:58.560 --> 00:30:03.600 hypotheses, we're talking about measurable, discernible facts and ones that actually have 00:30:03.600 --> 00:30:07.280 consequences. And we'll deal with those consequences in future episodes. 00:30:07.280 --> 00:30:10.640 But first we need to establish that this stuff is actually real 00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:13.120 and it's not a threat to your faith to look at it 00:30:13.120 --> 00:30:16.560 as a real thing. 00:30:17.040 --> 00:30:17.200 In 00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:22.560 fact, the real denial of the faith comes from denying these things. 00:30:22.560 --> 00:30:26.160 Because if you deny the reality of human race or or these 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:31.520 distinctions, these differences, what God did in time in the physical world. 00:30:31.520 --> 00:30:34.960 Really that's a form of Gnosticism because you are denying the reality 00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:36.320 of the flesh. 00:30:36.320 --> 00:30:38.960 And so that is a violation of the first article of the 00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:43.200 Creed. But I think possibly this is a good time to do 00:30:43.200 --> 00:30:47.040 a just a quick biology lesson to give those who haven't had 00:30:47.040 --> 00:30:50.880 biology in a while or perhaps never took it, a bit of 00:30:50.880 --> 00:30:55.200 the fundamentals, the mechanics here, how this actually works and plays out 00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:56.560 in reality. 00:30:56.560 --> 00:31:00.320 And so there are some terms it is important to know. 00:31:00.320 --> 00:31:03.360 I would hope people are familiar with a few of the terms 00:31:03.360 --> 00:31:07.840 here, but one in particular that is important is haplogroup. 00:31:07.840 --> 00:31:11.840 And a haplogroup is basically a group of people who share a 00:31:11.840 --> 00:31:13.440 common ancestor. 00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:16.800 It's defined as a certain number of alleles that tend to be 00:31:16.800 --> 00:31:21.520 inherited together of Alleles being a different form of a gene, you 00:31:21.520 --> 00:31:24.560 can have different forms of the same gene if it's a different 00:31:24.560 --> 00:31:26.240 one that's an allele. 00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:29.920 And so you can look at a map of haplogroups and you 00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:32.800 can see race on that map. 00:31:33.520 --> 00:31:38.640 But two of the most important haplo types of haplogroups, and we'll 00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:42.960 put some images of these in the show notes, would be according 00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:47.120 to mitochondrial DNA and according to Y chromosome DNA. 00:31:47.360 --> 00:31:52.320 And the reason that these two are important is because mitochondrial DNA 00:31:52.320 --> 00:31:55.040 is inherited from the mother alone. 00:31:55.040 --> 00:31:58.720 You do not get your mitochondrial DNA from your father. 00:31:58.720 --> 00:32:00.720 You get it from your mother. 00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:04.800 Because the mitochondrial DNA that comes from the sperm is destroyed in 00:32:04.800 --> 00:32:05.520 the ovum. 00:32:05.520 --> 00:32:06.800 It is not passed on. 00:32:06.800 --> 00:32:10.800 Only the mitochondrial DNA from the mother is passed on and so 00:32:10.800 --> 00:32:12.720 we have a mitochondrial Eve. 00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:16.960 There is a woman at some point in history from whom all 00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:20.320 mitochondrial DNA comes. 00:32:20.320 --> 00:32:23.360 And of course, that in the Christian case is Eve, that's why 00:32:23.280 --> 00:32:25.600 she's called mitochondrial Eve. 00:32:25.600 --> 00:32:30.960 Now, mitochondrial DNA can mutate over time, because really any DNA can 00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:31.680 mutate over time. 00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:34.400 Not all mutations are beneficial, most are harmful. 00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:41.040 But But some of the mutations are either neutral or they don't 00:32:41.040 --> 00:32:43.120 harm the organism in such a way that it doesn't carry on. 00:32:43.120 --> 00:32:45.840 And so that will carry on to successive generations. 00:32:45.840 --> 00:32:50.000 That's the sort of mutation that does not terminate a line, it 00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:51.040 will continue. 00:32:51.040 --> 00:32:53.920 Mitochondrial DNA is very stable. 00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:57.440 We aren't certain how stable yet, but there are some studies that 00:32:57.440 --> 00:33:01.200 estimate that it mutates as infrequently as once every eight thousand years. 00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:04.240 Now of course, being Christians, again, we know the earth is about 00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:05.280 six thousand years old. 00:33:05.280 --> 00:33:08.320 This is the year of our Lord six thousand twenty seven, give 00:33:08.320 --> 00:33:10.400 or take two or three years. 00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:13.840 So they're probably off by a little bit on the rate of 00:33:13.840 --> 00:33:16.880 mutation. But the point is that it is very stable. 00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:20.480 There's very little mutation in mitochondrial DNA. 00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:25.360 The other group is Y chromosome DNA. 00:33:25.360 --> 00:33:30.080 Hopefully those who've taken biology remember that women have two X chromosomes 00:33:30.800 --> 00:33:33.760 and men have an X and a Y chromosome, and so obviously 00:33:33.840 --> 00:33:38.320 you have to inherit your Y chromosome from your father. 00:33:38.320 --> 00:33:41.600 Y chromosomes do not really recombine. 00:33:41.600 --> 00:33:43.600 And now what recombining is 00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:48.000 when you get your genetic information, you get half from your mother 00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:50.400 and half from your father. 00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:55.440 The chromosomes that match, so if it's the same chromosome, chromosome five 00:33:55.600 --> 00:33:59.040 from each parent, whatever it happens to be, there can be recombination 00:33:59.040 --> 00:34:02.160 where DNA can get swapped back and forth, and that's some of 00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:06.320 how you get genetic variance in populations over time is recombination. 00:34:07.040 --> 00:34:11.600 The Y chromosome recombines very little. 00:34:11.600 --> 00:34:14.640 It only recombines on a tail where it matches with the X 00:34:14.720 --> 00:34:16.800 chromosome that you receive from the mother. 00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:20.640 95% of the Y chromosome does not recombine. 00:34:21.040 --> 00:34:25.600 And so you wind up having a relative stability in inheritable Y 00:34:25.680 --> 00:34:28.480 chromosome DNA over time. 00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:32.720 And so you can define human groups according to the Y chromosome 00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:36.480 because you can look back to a common male ancestor from whom 00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:39.680 this population inherited that chromosome. 00:34:39.680 --> 00:34:45.920 However, the Y chromosome mutates much more frequently, much more quickly than 00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:51.680 mitochondrial DNA, you get a mutation every generation or so in the 00:34:51.680 --> 00:34:52.640 Y chromosome. 00:34:52.640 --> 00:34:56.320 Now it's a small mutation, but this can be tracked over time. 00:34:56.320 --> 00:35:00.000 What that means is you can tell how groups split from each 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.840 other over time as human beings spread out over the surface of 00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:04.640 the earth. 00:35:04.640 --> 00:35:08.560 And so if you look at these two maps together you can 00:35:08.560 --> 00:35:12.800 pretty much tell exactly where the races are delineated simply on the 00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:19.120 basis of Y chromosome haplogroups and mitochondrial DNA haplogroups. 00:35:19.120 --> 00:35:21.840 And again, we will put the image the images of this in 00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:22.560 the show notes. 00:35:22.560 --> 00:35:26.240 You can literally look at it and go, I can see the 00:35:26.240 --> 00:35:29.200 jaffitites on here, I can see the Hamites on here, I can 00:35:29.200 --> 00:35:33.760 see the Shemites on here, I can see Germanic Europe versus Slavic 00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:36.240 Europe versus Celtic Europe. 00:35:36.240 --> 00:35:39.920 These are real things that can be seen and tested in the 00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:45.360 real world, and they do not disagree with our faith whatsoever, because 00:35:45.600 --> 00:35:49.600 they actually prove, again, it's further proof of the truth of the 00:35:49.600 --> 00:35:53.920 scriptures. Because you can see the groups that spread out from the 00:35:53.920 --> 00:35:58.880 ark. You can actually see a confirmation of what scripture says playing 00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:00.880 out in the real world as God designed 00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:01.520 it. 00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:04.480 We mentioned the show notes a lot, and I I hope that 00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:06.160 you're checking those every week. 00:36:06.160 --> 00:36:09.200 I hope you're clicking through the URL to look. 00:36:09.200 --> 00:36:11.200 This is a podcast that has homework. 00:36:11.200 --> 00:36:14.000 Now you you don't need to go look at the stuff in 00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:16.320 order to like follow up on future episodes. 00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:18.720 So it's not it's not homework that's graded. 00:36:18.720 --> 00:36:22.400 But in some cases, at least half of the episode isn't anything 00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:24.800 that we say, but that's a stuff that we like. 00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:28.640 So if you get value out of what we're saying this episode 00:36:28.720 --> 00:36:32.400 and the next couple episodes in particular, please click through and look 00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:35.200 at this stuff so you can see for yourselves because this is 00:36:35.200 --> 00:36:39.680 an audio presentation and we're this is a superficial look at this 00:36:39.680 --> 00:36:43.360 stuff. We're not going super in depth because frankly, it's not important 00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:45.520 for the purpose of these conversations. 00:36:45.520 --> 00:36:51.840 This conversation, this episode, is specifically making the case that race is 00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:53.040 a real thing. 00:36:53.040 --> 00:36:56.400 So if you have gone around and said one race, the human 00:36:56.400 --> 00:36:57.920 race, which is very common. 00:36:57.920 --> 00:37:00.640 People say it without without a guilty conscience. 00:37:00.640 --> 00:37:02.480 They think that they're being Christian. 00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:05.920 That's part of why we're we're refuting it, is that it's not 00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:09.360 a Christian say thing to say, but it sounds Christian. 00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:12.160 It's important as Christians to tell the truth. 00:37:12.160 --> 00:37:17.440 And the fact that Satan is attacking this specific area of the 00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:21.200 truth should be an indication to every qu Christian that there's something 00:37:21.200 --> 00:37:23.040 going on here that matters. 00:37:23.040 --> 00:37:27.200 Now, in the episode that we did on Christian nationalism and in 00:37:27.200 --> 00:37:30.560 the episode that we did on election, both of those we talked 00:37:30.560 --> 00:37:33.840 at some length um in part, probably about 20 minutes in in 00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:38.000 each ep episode, we talked about some of these things about how 00:37:38.640 --> 00:37:42.240 race and ancestry are concentric circles. 00:37:42.240 --> 00:37:45.200 So the notion and this was this was present I mentioned in 00:37:45.200 --> 00:37:50.080 a previous episode In the Webster 1828 definition of race or of 00:37:50.080 --> 00:37:55.120 nation, it specifically addresses the fact that we're the race of Adam, 00:37:55.120 --> 00:37:59.040 and the you know the Jews are the race of Abraham, that 00:37:59.040 --> 00:38:01.760 we as Europeans are the race of Japheth. 00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:05.920 And then as you go on down, those races get smaller. 00:38:05.920 --> 00:38:10.640 And one of the common false arguments, it's a cheap shot and 00:38:10.640 --> 00:38:16.720 it's dishonest, but it sounds convincing, superficially, is that well, how can 00:38:16.720 --> 00:38:20.160 a German and a Dutchman be a separate race if European and 00:38:20.160 --> 00:38:21.680 African are a separate race? 00:38:21.680 --> 00:38:23.120 None of it makes any sense. 00:38:23.120 --> 00:38:26.160 Like you hear you'll hear people say that, that well, if there's 00:38:26.160 --> 00:38:29.440 this sort of continuum I can't make sense of any of it, 00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:31.760 none of it must exist. 00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:34.240 That's just facially nonsense. 00:38:34.240 --> 00:38:37.520 The fact that you have a mother and a father and that 00:38:37.520 --> 00:38:41.120 your third cousins have a different mother and father, and that the 00:38:41.120 --> 00:38:44.240 yet that you have a common great grandparent, however however far back 00:38:44.240 --> 00:38:46.880 it goes, doesn't mean you're not related. 00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:50.560 It just means that you're related to a different degree than your 00:38:50.560 --> 00:38:54.240 immediate cousin or your brother or sister. 00:38:54.240 --> 00:38:59.680 These degrees of relation are the basis of race. 00:38:59.680 --> 00:39:04.160 Now, there's the discussion of the subject, one of the things that 00:39:04.160 --> 00:39:06.880 will come up is that there are people who say nobody even 00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:09.280 talked about any of this stuff until Jar Darwin. 00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:14.080 Charles Darwin invented the origin of species and invented evolution in 1859, 00:39:14.080 --> 00:39:16.160 and suddenly everyone started talking about race. 00:39:16.240 --> 00:39:18.880 race and it never existed before that. 00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:20.640 That's a bald face lie. 00:39:21.040 --> 00:39:25.680 it's such a laughably retarded lie that it it it's it beggars 00:39:25.680 --> 00:39:26.960 belief that it even exists. 00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:30.640 And yet there's some fairly intelligent people superficially who will say things 00:39:30.640 --> 00:39:31.680 like that? 00:39:31.680 --> 00:39:37.200 Not because it's true, but because it's a it's a conversation-killing lie 00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:39.520 that no one is going to fight him over. 00:39:39.520 --> 00:39:44.080 You can go back to Aristotle and see him discussing ethnicity and 00:39:44.080 --> 00:39:48.320 he broke it down into culture, language, and genetics, which is is 00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:50.240 a good way of breaking it down. 00:39:50.240 --> 00:39:56.080 As Corey mentioned, the Germans and the Dutch are genetically almost indistinguishable. 00:39:56.080 --> 00:39:58.560 On if you looked at genes, you're probably not gonna be able 00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:01.760 to tell someone who's Dutch from someone who's German. 00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:04.720 Yet if you talk to 'em for thirty seconds, you can clearly 00:40:04.720 --> 00:40:05.680 tell the difference. 00:40:05.680 --> 00:40:08.400 And in many cases you might be able to tell just by 00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:12.480 looking, because there are differences that there are a lot of things 00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:15.040 about genetics that we don't understand yet. 00:40:15.040 --> 00:40:16.720 That doesn't mean it's not real. 00:40:16.720 --> 00:40:19.360 It just means we don't know what's going on. 00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:23.440 The fact of ignorance of a man does not disprove the reality 00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:24.480 of a fact. 00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:27.920 It simply means that what we see with our own eyes, we 00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:32.640 don't yet have a downstream explanation for it. 00:40:32.640 --> 00:40:36.000 It's okay not to know, but it's not okay to lie because 00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:37.440 you don't know. 00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:41.360 So it is true that there is no one gene for race. 00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:43.680 And we'll get into this more in a little bit, but the 00:40:43.680 --> 00:40:48.080 reason that there's no one gene is that race is so inextricably 00:40:48.080 --> 00:40:51.520 linked to who you are as a human being, as a man 00:40:51.520 --> 00:40:55.360 or woman that God created in time, from all of those fathers 00:40:55.680 --> 00:40:57.840 and all of those mothers going all the way back to the 00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:03.680 flood and back to Adam There's such an intrinsic part of you 00:41:03.680 --> 00:41:06.640 that is from that winnowing process. 00:41:06.640 --> 00:41:08.960 That's the reason there's no race gene. 00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:12.160 That's the reason there's no skin color gene, which is another lie 00:41:12.160 --> 00:41:13.600 that we'll get to in a minute. 00:41:13.600 --> 00:41:15.440 These are not superficial things. 00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:19.360 These are things that are so deeply embedded in us that we 00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:22.240 don't yet understand how deep they go. 00:41:22.240 --> 00:41:24.160 That doesn't mean that they don't exist at all. 00:41:24.160 --> 00:41:29.520 It just means that as current year science looks at genetic data, 00:41:29.520 --> 00:41:31.040 it doesn't know where to find it. 00:41:31.040 --> 00:41:33.440 It and it doesn't know where to find it because there's so 00:41:33.440 --> 00:41:35.920 much of it that we don't yet understand. 00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:40.160 So looking at these things and saying, well, we don't understand doesn't 00:41:40.160 --> 00:41:42.000 pre-proclude the existence of a thing. 00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:44.800 It just means we don't have an explanation. 00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:46.960 And it's okay as a Christian to leave it at that. 00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:49.680 There are lots of things we don't have explanations for. 00:41:49.680 --> 00:41:51.520 That doesn't mean they're false. 00:41:51.520 --> 00:41:55.680 And the fact that some of these discussions are coming from atheists 00:41:55.680 --> 00:42:00.400 and from evolutionists who have harmful intent in mind when they spread 00:42:00.560 --> 00:42:06.560 their lying conclusions doesn't undermine the reality of the created order that 00:42:06.560 --> 00:42:08.960 God has given for all of us to observe. 00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:10.960 And that's the important part of this 00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:15.520 So to expand on you brought up skin color, it's a good 00:42:15.520 --> 00:42:18.960 place to expand on that since we just went over the genetics 00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:19.760 as well. 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:23.520 There are those who will try to argue that because 00:42:25.120 --> 00:42:29.840 you see different skin tones in different parts of the world, despite 00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:33.760 them clearly being different races, which is interesting they're importing that assumption 00:42:33.760 --> 00:42:34.720 in there. 00:42:34.720 --> 00:42:39.520 But for instance, there are fair skinned Japanese. 00:42:39.520 --> 00:42:41.280 There are fair skinned Europeans. 00:42:41.280 --> 00:42:44.320 There are many fair skinned people in the Middle East, even to 00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:44.880 this day. 00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:48.640 Did they Despite the various conquests that have taken place since the 00:42:48.640 --> 00:42:52.560 time of the New Testament. 00:42:52.560 --> 00:42:57.840 But it is not skin color that is the determiner of race. 00:42:57.840 --> 00:43:01.360 It is genetic descent that is the determiner of race, and that's 00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:04.880 why we speak of the race of Japheth, or the race of 00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:07.120 Shem, or the race of Ham. 00:43:07.120 --> 00:43:11.520 It is because a race is founded by a founding stock. 00:43:11.520 --> 00:43:16.960 Now, the genes that express and cause skin color may be shared 00:43:16.960 --> 00:43:18.560 across people groups. 00:43:18.560 --> 00:43:21.920 As mentioned, there are fair skinned peoples in various parts of the 00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:26.320 world. There are dark skinned people in various parts of the world. 00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:31.600 There is some genetic relation between the Aborigines in Australia and sub 00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:37.200 Saharan Africans, but they are distinct people groups despite having the same 00:43:37.200 --> 00:43:38.080 skin tone. 00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:41.040 Because race is not skin tone. 00:43:41.040 --> 00:43:45.760 Skin tone is part of your phenotype, and again, your phenotype is 00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:48.720 the physical expression of your genotype. 00:43:48.720 --> 00:43:50.640 Your genotype is your genetics. 00:43:50.640 --> 00:43:54.000 Now there's more to heritability than genetics, but we won't get into 00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:54.560 that now. 00:43:54.560 --> 00:43:59.280 And quite frankly, even the sciences aren't yet settled on what exactly 00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:01.760 and how exactly that works. 00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:05.760 So genetics, DNA is good enough for our purposes. 00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:07.920 But race is not your skin color. 00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:11.680 Skin color is not your race. 00:44:11.680 --> 00:44:13.760 Because it is more than that. 00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:18.080 You are who and what you are, because of quite a lot 00:44:18.080 --> 00:44:23.920 of things that came together historically to make your people unique. 00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:27.200 You are a member of that group because God saw fit to 00:44:27.200 --> 00:44:28.800 make you a member of that group. 00:44:28.800 --> 00:44:30.080 That was part of his plan. 00:44:30.080 --> 00:44:35.120 All of these genetic differences between the various races of men existed 00:44:35.120 --> 00:44:36.640 in Adam. 00:44:36.640 --> 00:44:39.440 They were part of God's plan from the beginning. 00:44:39.440 --> 00:44:40.480 And so there are those who will tell you 00:44:41.360 --> 00:44:46.160 that race is a punishment from God as part of the Tower 00:44:46.160 --> 00:44:49.520 of Babel, and that is lying about God. 00:44:49.520 --> 00:44:51.760 That is high handed sin. 00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:56.080 Christians should never let those words pass their lips. 00:44:56.080 --> 00:45:00.240 The various races of men are part of God's plan because God 00:45:00.240 --> 00:45:03.520 intended for us to spread over the face of the world, adapt 00:45:03.520 --> 00:45:07.760 to the area in which we lived, to be fruitful and multiply. 00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:11.360 And he built into Adam the ability to do that. 00:45:11.360 --> 00:45:13.520 And that is what has taken place. 00:45:13.520 --> 00:45:17.120 And so part of that, of course, is going to be skin 00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:19.760 tone. And if you want to look at the explanation for skin 00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:22.000 tone, it's very easy. 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:25.120 Pull up a map of human skin tones. 00:45:25.120 --> 00:45:28.000 You'll see that it is simply a matter of how far you 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:31.920 are away from or how close you are to the equator. 00:45:32.160 --> 00:45:35.280 And the reason for that is very simple. 00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:39.680 If you get farther away from the equator, you need to be 00:45:39.680 --> 00:45:44.240 able to absorb more sunlight for various biological processes. 00:45:44.240 --> 00:45:48.080 And so if you have more melanin in your skin, if you 00:45:48.080 --> 00:45:51.600 have darker skin, you are going to have a problem producing certain 00:45:51.600 --> 00:45:54.800 vitamins and other things, and you are going to have health problems 00:45:54.800 --> 00:45:57.360 because of that, so you need fair skin to let the sunlight 00:45:57.360 --> 00:45:58.320 pass through. 00:45:58.320 --> 00:46:01.200 If you are close to the equator, you are going to get 00:46:01.200 --> 00:46:02.480 plenty of sunlight. 00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:06.720 If you are as fair skinned as a Swede or a Norwegian 00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:10.080 and you're living on the equator, you are going to get sunburned. 00:46:10.080 --> 00:46:12.800 That's not advantageous, unless you live there long enough and are able 00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:14.800 to tan, of course. 00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:16.880 And so that's all skin tone is. 00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:20.320 When we speak about race, we're not speaking about skin tone. 00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:23.920 Skin tone is part of the equation. 00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:27.440 It is simply what God built into humanity so that we could 00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:31.120 live anywhere on the planet, instead of just having one skin tone 00:46:31.120 --> 00:46:34.000 and having to live in a narrow latitude. 00:46:34.400 --> 00:46:34.560 And 00:46:34.560 --> 00:46:39.120 the reason that's important to discuss skin color first is because one 00:46:39.120 --> 00:46:43.200 of the most common deceptions and frankly one of the laziest things 00:46:43.200 --> 00:46:46.480 that is said, even among people who know what's going on, is 00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:49.680 to call some people white and other people black. 00:46:49.680 --> 00:46:53.680 You know what someone it means when they say that, but it's 00:46:53.680 --> 00:46:55.840 a dangerous frame because 00:46:56.720 --> 00:47:00.400 it begs the question that that's all race is. 00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:03.280 That if someone were lighter, they wouldn't be black anymore. 00:47:03.280 --> 00:47:07.120 You can Google pictures of albinos of various races. 00:47:07.120 --> 00:47:10.480 You can have albinos where they have identical skin tone. 00:47:10.480 --> 00:47:13.680 You can clearly tell who's white, you can tell who's Asian, and 00:47:13.680 --> 00:47:15.200 you can tell who's African. 00:47:15.200 --> 00:47:16.240 Because you know what? 00:47:16.240 --> 00:47:20.000 There's a lot more going on, and it's not just facial features. 00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:25.280 It's not just distinguishing eye shape or jaw shape or skull shape, 00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:27.440 although the all those things are true. 00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:33.200 There is a tremendous amount going on by virtue of genetic variation 00:47:33.840 --> 00:47:36.720 in each of the distinct races. 00:47:36.720 --> 00:47:37.040 And 00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:43.200 we we begin with the color question because it's such nonsense. 00:47:43.200 --> 00:47:46.320 Because one of the most common arguments against us will be: you 00:47:46.320 --> 00:47:48.960 don't like people who look different, you don't like people with different 00:47:48.960 --> 00:47:50.800 skin color. 00:47:50.800 --> 00:47:52.560 That's just stupid. 00:47:52.560 --> 00:47:54.800 It's just flat out stupid. 00:47:54.800 --> 00:47:59.200 None of the discussion of race from those who say it's real 00:47:59.520 --> 00:48:02.320 has anything to do with skin color. 00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:06.240 Yes, it is a common shorthand because when you say black, everybody 00:48:06.240 --> 00:48:07.520 knows what you mean. 00:48:07.520 --> 00:48:11.600 However, that doesn't mean that because there's a gradient of colors in 00:48:11.680 --> 00:48:13.920 assumption at some point you have a white person at the at 00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:17.360 the opposite point of a black person in their shades in between 00:48:17.600 --> 00:48:20.880 that we can't possibly know what the difference between black and white 00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:24.800 is. That is a flat out logical fallacy. 00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:25.920 It's just nonsense. 00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:28.080 And yet it's very common when someone 00:48:29.360 --> 00:48:30.400 Yeah. Yes. 00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:35.680 It's it it it's deliberate deception in order to just throw chaff 00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:38.160 into the air so no one can have an honest discussion about 00:48:38.160 --> 00:48:40.000 this stuff. 00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:44.800 There are so many aspects of what it means to have a 00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:50.880 particular race that manifest in terms of behavior, in terms of intelligence, 00:48:50.880 --> 00:48:54.000 in terms of disease profile. 00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:57.440 And doctors know all of these things, or at least they did 00:48:57.520 --> 00:48:58.480 20 years ago. 00:48:58.480 --> 00:49:01.600 And this is what's really deadly about this lie, which is I 00:49:01.600 --> 00:49:05.520 said, the atheist evolutionists are now getting on the same page as 00:49:05.520 --> 00:49:09.440 the Christians and denying race exists and they're killing people as a 00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:11.120 result. Because you know what? 00:49:11.120 --> 00:49:16.480 If you are African, of African descent, you have a much higher 00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:19.440 likelihood of having sickle cell anemia. 00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:22.000 It's a blood disorder that everyone's heard about. 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:25.680 Your red blood cells have uh they're shaped wrong. 00:49:25.680 --> 00:49:28.640 It turns out that the sickle cell 00:49:29.600 --> 00:49:35.360 mutation is actually advantageous in terms of fighting malaria. 00:49:35.360 --> 00:49:39.920 It's a mutation that harms your ability to correctly I think deal 00:49:39.920 --> 00:49:41.520 with oxygen uptake in your blood. 00:49:41.520 --> 00:49:43.440 I'm not sure what the effects are. 00:49:43.440 --> 00:49:45.280 But it has a positive effect. 00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:48.880 It has the effect of reducing the ability for malaria to reproduce 00:49:48.880 --> 00:49:49.680 in your body. 00:49:49.680 --> 00:49:53.680 That is only found in Africa because only Africans live near the 00:49:53.680 --> 00:49:56.880 equator where malaria is rampant. 00:49:56.880 --> 00:50:01.200 You can't have malarial swamps in places like Norway. 00:50:01.360 --> 00:50:05.840 There are no mosquitoes carrying malaria in the fjords there are in 00:50:05.840 --> 00:50:12.880 Africa. So these variations that have real-world consequences like sickle cell anemia 00:50:13.120 --> 00:50:15.360 are specifically linked to race. 00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:18.080 Now it's not that being an African causes you to have sickle 00:50:18.080 --> 00:50:22.880 cell anemia, it's that the race of Africans tend to have that 00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:28.800 particular mutation because of where they lived for 4500 years. 00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:31.440 The same is true across numerous other groups. 00:50:31.440 --> 00:50:35.040 If I had a friend who married a Jewish girl, and so 00:50:35.040 --> 00:50:38.960 when they had their first kid, she had to go have specific 00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:44.400 prenatal testing for lots of different uh genetic diseases that are particular 00:50:44.400 --> 00:50:45.120 to Jews. 00:50:45.120 --> 00:50:48.000 If he had married someone who's white, it wouldn't be an issue. 00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:51.360 But Jews are more likely to have tay sacks. 00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:55.040 They're 40% more likely to suffer from schizophrenia. 00:50:55.040 --> 00:50:56.400 And all these things are genetics. 00:50:56.480 --> 00:51:00.240 When I say Jew, I'm not talking about someone who reads the 00:51:00.240 --> 00:51:02.480 Talmud and wears the funny hat. 00:51:02.480 --> 00:51:06.480 I'm talking about someone who's descended from those who identifies the race 00:51:06.480 --> 00:51:07.360 of Jews. 00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:10.160 Now, it's not hateful to say that. 00:51:10.160 --> 00:51:13.280 I'm not saying curse these people because they're Jews and I want 00:51:13.280 --> 00:51:14.880 them to have bad diseases. 00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:19.920 They have bad diseases in their genes that are particular to them. 00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:25.520 These variations are racial and today, as I said, doctors are now 00:51:25.520 --> 00:51:26.400 ignoring this stuff. 00:51:26.400 --> 00:51:28.880 We're saying, Oh, what's it's all one race, the human race. 00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:31.120 You can't possibly have any differences. 00:51:31.120 --> 00:51:34.000 Well, that's gonna get a lot of people killed who wouldn't have 00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:37.760 died if they had received the appropriate treatment. 00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:38.080 And 00:51:39.200 --> 00:51:42.720 I think as Christians, we need to be really concerned about the 00:51:42.720 --> 00:51:47.360 fact that an unexamined given that we brought forward to say, well, 00:51:47.360 --> 00:51:50.320 we're all descended from Adam, so we're all exactly the same. 00:51:50.320 --> 00:51:52.880 And scientists for a long time were saying, no, that's not true 00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:53.280 at all. 00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:57.040 We have we have all these meaningful differences in our bodies, in 00:51:57.040 --> 00:52:00.400 our genes, they have profound physical consequences. 00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:05.520 Now suddenly the doctors, the the so-called experts are denying those things 00:52:05.600 --> 00:52:09.040 and they're using the same rationale as the Christians. 00:52:09.040 --> 00:52:12.720 As we've said before, that should really concern you because they're going 00:52:12.720 --> 00:52:14.880 to get people killed by lying. 00:52:15.200 --> 00:52:16.960 Lies cause harm. 00:52:16.960 --> 00:52:18.560 They always cause harm. 00:52:18.560 --> 00:52:21.840 And the fact that doctors are now lying about Tay Sachs and 00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:27.040 they're lying about sickle cell anemia is done in the name of 00:52:27.040 --> 00:52:32.000 anti-racism. It's saying, well, we can't possibly dis differentiate or distinguish, so 00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:33.920 we must say we're all the same. 00:52:33.920 --> 00:52:37.680 And then you have people suffering and dying from genetic diseases that 00:52:37.680 --> 00:52:41.200 are derived specifically from their race because a doctor will say, well, 00:52:41.200 --> 00:52:41.760 you're human. 00:52:41.840 --> 00:52:42.800 I I can't tell. 00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:45.280 There's there you have no specific risk profile. 00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:46.960 You're just a human being. 00:52:47.840 --> 00:52:51.360 that's a lie that does harm and it's a moral matter. 00:52:51.680 --> 00:52:53.040 these things are moral matters. 00:52:53.040 --> 00:52:55.440 They're not simply scientific inquiry. 00:52:55.680 --> 00:52:58.880 We've danced a little bit around a point that I should probably 00:52:58.880 --> 00:53:01.600 make more explicit. 00:53:01.600 --> 00:53:05.280 When it comes to the percentage of your DNA that comes from 00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:08.640 certain ancestors ancestors, if you have 00:53:09.520 --> 00:53:12.800 very little DNA from someone who is seven or eight generations back, 00:53:12.800 --> 00:53:16.800 and that could very likely be the case, you are still so 00:53:16.800 --> 00:53:20.640 long as all of those individuals married within your particular ethnic group 00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:24.800 related to the other people in your ethnic group in a web 00:53:24.800 --> 00:53:26.000 of relations. 00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:30.960 Because of course there is a great pool of shared genetic material 00:53:30.960 --> 00:53:33.360 in that particular group. 00:53:33.360 --> 00:53:39.040 And so you will be more related to any randomly chosen member 00:53:39.040 --> 00:53:42.320 of that group than a member of another group somewhere else in 00:53:42.320 --> 00:53:43.200 the world. 00:53:43.200 --> 00:53:44.880 And so, for instance, 00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:47.520 if you are descended from 00:53:48.400 --> 00:53:50.080 the Dutch. 00:53:50.080 --> 00:53:52.240 Living in the US, you're descended from the Dutch. 00:53:52.240 --> 00:53:55.920 If you went to the Netherlands, you would be more related to 00:53:55.920 --> 00:53:59.120 any random Dutchman you found than if you were to go to 00:53:59.120 --> 00:54:03.360 Africa and pick anyone in Africa. 00:54:03.360 --> 00:54:08.000 And this shows up in a couple places in the same sort 00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:10.080 of vein as the medical issues. 00:54:10.080 --> 00:54:13.760 If you are descended from Japheth, which is to say if you 00:54:13.760 --> 00:54:17.200 are white, if you are European, and you marry someone from Africa, 00:54:17.200 --> 00:54:21.200 which is to say someone descended from ham, your children are effectively 00:54:21.200 --> 00:54:23.040 not related to you. 00:54:23.040 --> 00:54:27.040 Because their DNA is so different from yours that you are more 00:54:27.040 --> 00:54:32.800 closely related to any random person from your nation of origin than 00:54:32.800 --> 00:54:34.960 you are to your own child. 00:54:34.960 --> 00:54:38.400 And the reason this starts to cause problems is because if you 00:54:38.400 --> 00:54:42.640 need a bone marrow transplant or an organ transplant or any of 00:54:42.640 --> 00:54:46.240 a number of treatments, you will not be compatible. 00:54:46.240 --> 00:54:49.280 The odds of you being a compatible donor for your child are 00:54:49.280 --> 00:54:50.880 basically zero. 00:54:50.880 --> 00:54:55.520 The odds of you finding a compatible donor are also extremely low. 00:54:55.520 --> 00:54:59.520 So there are very real consequences of this in the real world. 00:54:59.520 --> 00:55:02.720 This is not something you can deny and just ignore it and 00:55:02.720 --> 00:55:03.520 hope for the best. 00:55:03.520 --> 00:55:07.520 Because if you ignore these things, there's a very real chance those 00:55:07.520 --> 00:55:10.160 consequences will occur, and there's nothing you can do about it at 00:55:10.160 --> 00:55:12.640 that point. 00:55:12.640 --> 00:55:19.760 And so another issue for disease frequency is that you do actually 00:55:19.760 --> 00:55:24.480 see more diseases crop up in those who have a mixed lineage 00:55:24.480 --> 00:55:26.400 than those who do not. 00:55:26.400 --> 00:55:32.720 And so that is a consideration for Christians, because what you have 00:55:32.720 --> 00:55:37.120 from your ancestors is what was given to you by God. 00:55:37.120 --> 00:55:41.680 And so you are supposed to pass that on to your children. 00:55:41.680 --> 00:55:47.440 You can, through poor decisions, steal from the next generation through your 00:55:47.440 --> 00:55:49.360 selfish decisions. 00:55:49.360 --> 00:55:51.840 And that is a moral consideration. 00:55:51.840 --> 00:55:54.480 And so these are things that Christians have to take into account. 00:55:54.480 --> 00:55:58.160 We do not simply get to ignore this issue because it makes 00:55:58.160 --> 00:56:01.520 us uncomfortable or because the world tells us that we should ignore 00:56:01.520 --> 00:56:04.960 it. And we have this happening today, as was mentioned, as Wo 00:56:05.200 --> 00:56:10.720 mentioned, we have doctors who will pretend that these problems don't exist, 00:56:10.720 --> 00:56:14.320 that oh, there's no predictive ability of your genetic ancestry, of your 00:56:14.320 --> 00:56:17.600 racial ancestry, and that's just a lie. 00:56:17.600 --> 00:56:19.840 But we've actually moved on from that. 00:56:19.840 --> 00:56:24.400 We're now on the next step, down or up the Marxist ladder, 00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:26.880 whichever way you want to think of it, I guess down given 00:56:26.880 --> 00:56:28.880 the destination. 00:56:28.880 --> 00:56:34.480 We now have doctors and others denying the reality of sex. 00:56:34.720 --> 00:56:37.920 And the reason for that is that, as said, it's just the 00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:39.280 next step on the ladder. 00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:44.320 It makes perfect sense in the Marxist timeline, in their plan, to 00:56:44.320 --> 00:56:47.920 go from denying the reality of human race to denying the reality 00:56:47.920 --> 00:56:48.320 of sex. 00:56:49.520 --> 00:56:53.600 Because if you're not really any particular race, you don't have an 00:56:53.600 --> 00:56:55.920 ethnic origin, that's genetic. 00:56:55.920 --> 00:56:57.280 Well, so is sex. 00:56:57.280 --> 00:57:00.080 Sex is also genetically determined, again. 00:57:00.080 --> 00:57:05.040 Women have two X chromosomes, men have an X and a Y. 00:57:05.040 --> 00:57:08.240 And we see this coming up in the medical field and others 00:57:08.560 --> 00:57:13.120 where there are doctors now who recommend a scan for ovarian cancer 00:57:13.280 --> 00:57:15.680 for a man who's claiming to be a woman 00:57:17.360 --> 00:57:22.320 or they won't do a check for prostate cancer in a man 00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:24.800 who's claiming to be a woman. 00:57:24.800 --> 00:57:27.280 Biology doesn't care what you claim to be. 00:57:27.280 --> 00:57:30.400 If you are a man, if you were born a man, you 00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:34.000 have a prostate, and you can get prostate cancer, and odds are 00:57:34.000 --> 00:57:35.920 you will, if you live long enough. 00:57:35.920 --> 00:57:38.320 So that is something for which you have to screen. 00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:40.960 Because that is a biological reality. 00:57:40.960 --> 00:57:43.040 The same plays out with regard to race. 00:57:43.040 --> 00:57:47.120 There are biological realities that flow from race and have to be 00:57:47.120 --> 00:57:50.240 considered, or real harm is caused. 00:57:50.320 --> 00:57:52.880 As we mentioned earlier, none of this is a denial that we're 00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:54.480 all the same species. 00:57:54.480 --> 00:58:00.000 Uh one of the definitions of a species that's typically accepted taxonomically 00:58:00.080 --> 00:58:03.920 for for any creature is the ability to interbreed. 00:58:03.920 --> 00:58:10.160 If two creatures can reproduce viable offspring that themselves can reproduce. 00:58:10.160 --> 00:58:13.440 They're typically considered that's one of the measures by which you determine 00:58:13.440 --> 00:58:14.880 if it's the same species. 00:58:14.880 --> 00:58:20.000 It is absolutely true that a European and an African can reproduce 00:58:20.080 --> 00:58:24.960 and can reproduce viable offspring, which themselves can reproduce. 00:58:24.960 --> 00:58:30.960 However, when you look at the fertility rates across all the various 00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:31.600 populations 00:58:32.480 --> 00:58:38.160 The peak fertility for how related you are to someone is actually 00:58:38.160 --> 00:58:40.480 in about the fourth cousin. 00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:45.520 So that's not simply talking about another white person, if you're European, 00:58:45.520 --> 00:58:48.240 and it's not simply talking about another German. 00:58:48.240 --> 00:58:51.440 It means, you know, if you're German, it means someone who lives 00:58:51.440 --> 00:58:54.240 in the same town as you, probably, maybe the sex next town 00:58:54.240 --> 00:58:59.120 over, but someone that you potentially would see at a family reunion. 00:58:59.120 --> 00:59:02.800 Now a fourth cousin is a fairly distant cousin, but it's close 00:59:02.800 --> 00:59:06.400 enough that you may well know their name, parti particularly if you're 00:59:06.400 --> 00:59:09.600 blessed to live in a community which really doesn't exist anywhere where 00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:12.320 you would keep in contact. 00:59:12.320 --> 00:59:16.640 There's this theological import to the fact that fourth cousins have the 00:59:16.640 --> 00:59:18.560 highest rate of fecundity. 00:59:18.560 --> 00:59:21.200 That's not trivial. 00:59:21.200 --> 00:59:25.920 Children are a blessing from God, and that which is blessed is 00:59:25.920 --> 00:59:29.680 that which is most desirous from God. 00:59:29.680 --> 00:59:33.280 He doesn't bless things that he finds to be evil, not in 00:59:33.280 --> 00:59:35.760 the same way that he blesses things he finds to be good. 00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:40.000 And so if fourth cousins are the peak fecundity, that what that 00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:43.200 means is that if you marry a first or second cousin, you're 00:59:43.200 --> 00:59:47.520 less likely to reproduce for any given event of marriage. 00:59:47.520 --> 00:59:50.560 If you're looking at a sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth cousin or someone 00:59:50.560 --> 00:59:53.200 who's a complete stranger from the other side of the world, the 00:59:53.200 --> 00:59:56.400 fertility rate falls off significantly. 00:59:56.400 --> 00:59:58.080 That's not random. 00:59:58.080 --> 01:00:01.920 And I think one of the problems that humans have and Christians 01:00:01.920 --> 01:00:08.320 have when dealing with questions of genetics is the question of randomness 01:00:08.560 --> 01:00:10.560 because we can't see the inputs. 01:00:10.560 --> 01:00:11.760 All we can see is behavior. 01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:13.920 We can see a person A, person B, we can see their 01:00:13.920 --> 01:00:17.440 behavior, and then we can see the app outcomes at sort of 01:00:17.440 --> 01:00:18.720 a high level. 01:00:18.720 --> 01:00:25.360 There's so much apparent randomness in what happens with genetic admixture that 01:00:25.840 --> 01:00:29.920 is imperceptible to the human mind and in many cases simply un 01:00:30.080 --> 01:00:35.680 incalculable, that we tend to disregard it as being inconsequential. 01:00:35.680 --> 01:00:39.200 And I think that as Christians, the reality that we should focus 01:00:39.200 --> 01:00:43.840 on is that God knows what's going on at these levels. 01:00:43.840 --> 01:00:50.400 When God gave Adam 46 chromosomes, he knew the contents of every 01:00:50.400 --> 01:00:51.680 single gene in there. 01:00:51.680 --> 01:00:52.880 He knew all of it. 01:00:52.880 --> 01:00:54.480 There are 30,000 odd genes. 01:00:54.480 --> 01:00:56.160 He knew what was in each of them. 01:00:56.640 --> 01:00:59.920 he chose them specifically for specific purposes. 01:00:59.920 --> 01:01:03.840 When he brought Eve from out of Adam's body, Eve was a 01:01:03.840 --> 01:01:05.200 fully formed woman. 01:01:05.200 --> 01:01:07.600 What that meant was that she probably had in the order of 01:01:08.240 --> 01:01:13.120 hundreds of thousands, maybe million or so eggs inside her body. 01:01:13.120 --> 01:01:15.280 One thing that a lot of people don't know is that when 01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:18.480 a little girl is born, she has as many eggs as she's 01:01:18.480 --> 01:01:20.320 ever gonna have in her entire life. 01:01:20.320 --> 01:01:23.680 Eggs are not reproduced during the life of a person. 01:01:23.680 --> 01:01:28.800 They're produced at a a germ level in utero, and then they 01:01:28.800 --> 01:01:32.800 die off throughout the person's life, the girl's life, and they're also 01:01:32.800 --> 01:01:35.440 shed once ovulation begins. 01:01:35.440 --> 01:01:39.040 And so a girl is born, she's conceived initially as something like 01:01:39.040 --> 01:01:43.200 six or seven million of what could potentially become ova. 01:01:43.200 --> 01:01:47.360 By the time of birth, there's about 300,000, give or take. 01:01:47.360 --> 01:01:48.480 By the time 01:01:49.440 --> 01:01:55.040 she begins to reach sexual maturity, she's lost about 10,000 of those 01:01:55.040 --> 01:01:55.840 every month. 01:01:55.840 --> 01:01:59.120 And then a one or two are shed every month through ovulation. 01:01:59.120 --> 01:02:02.320 And then at menopause basically the system shuts down because the eggs 01:02:02.320 --> 01:02:03.920 are based basically exhausted. 01:02:03.920 --> 01:02:07.520 So there's a finite amount of them that God creates when he 01:02:07.520 --> 01:02:09.760 creates life and then they're depleted. 01:02:09.760 --> 01:02:12.800 And that's the end of a girl's reproductive life. 01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:14.880 It's not the end of her life, but it's the end of 01:02:14.880 --> 01:02:18.640 her life as someone who can potentially reproduce. 01:02:18.640 --> 01:02:20.960 Men sort of work in the opposite direction. 01:02:20.960 --> 01:02:25.200 We don't really begin producing sperm until puberty And then we produce 01:02:25.200 --> 01:02:29.920 millions a day until long after we're likely to ever be reproducing. 01:02:29.920 --> 01:02:35.360 And so God has architected our bodies in different ways to achieve 01:02:35.360 --> 01:02:36.880 his ends. 01:02:36.880 --> 01:02:39.280 But it seems random to us. 01:02:39.280 --> 01:02:41.040 It's not random to God. 01:02:41.040 --> 01:02:45.120 And so the fact that fourth cousins are the most likely to 01:02:45.120 --> 01:02:51.440 be blessed by reproducing successfully is itself, I believe, in a theological 01:02:52.160 --> 01:02:56.560 conclusion. It points to the fact that marrying not only within your 01:02:56.560 --> 01:03:00.240 own race, like we're not just talking about white people marry white 01:03:00.240 --> 01:03:02.560 people, Asians marry Asians. 01:03:02.560 --> 01:03:07.680 It's a question of as Corey said, how closely related are you 01:03:07.680 --> 01:03:08.320 to someone? 01:03:08.320 --> 01:03:11.360 Because when you're looking, if you need a bone marrow match or 01:03:11.360 --> 01:03:15.520 a you know a kidney donor or something, it's not simply another 01:03:15.520 --> 01:03:16.800 European that's going to do the job. 01:03:17.040 --> 01:03:19.120 They're not closely related enough. 01:03:19.120 --> 01:03:21.760 Because we said these are concentric circles. 01:03:21.760 --> 01:03:26.160 You need someone who's has very similar ancestry to your own to 01:03:26.160 --> 01:03:29.200 have the chance, you know, the random chance from a from a 01:03:29.200 --> 01:03:32.160 human perspective, but it's not random, it's up to God. 01:03:32.160 --> 01:03:35.200 All of these things are passed down through time and God acts 01:03:35.200 --> 01:03:38.560 in time to produce each of us in a particular way. 01:03:38.560 --> 01:03:41.680 You know, I'm about seventy five percent English, give or take, and 01:03:41.680 --> 01:03:43.760 about 20% German. 01:03:43.760 --> 01:03:48.080 So someone else with a similar ancestry is my relative. 01:03:48.080 --> 01:03:50.560 If you know if they came from Kent and they came from 01:03:50.560 --> 01:03:56.720 Saxony, we're closely related, more so than someone, you know, even someone 01:03:56.720 --> 01:03:58.240 who might be Spanish. 01:03:58.240 --> 01:04:01.360 I would be more closely to related to a random Englishman who 01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:05.040 was twenty percent Dutch than to a Spaniard, by virtue of the 01:04:05.040 --> 01:04:08.960 fact that these things group over time and tend to cluster. 01:04:08.960 --> 01:04:09.280 And 01:04:10.240 --> 01:04:13.200 again, if if you've listened to us thus far, at no point 01:04:13.200 --> 01:04:16.720 have we said anything hateful other than saying that human beings are 01:04:16.720 --> 01:04:18.560 created by God differently. 01:04:18.560 --> 01:04:21.280 And the fact that the world is now saying that that itself 01:04:21.280 --> 01:04:25.600 is hateful should be a cause for great concern for Christians because 01:04:25.920 --> 01:04:28.560 it flies in the face of scripture. 01:04:28.560 --> 01:04:31.360 It flies flies in the face of the truth of what we 01:04:31.360 --> 01:04:35.120 discover when we look at these facts Why is that lie so 01:04:35.120 --> 01:04:39.280 important? Because when Satan authored it, he had something in mind. 01:04:39.280 --> 01:04:44.640 And when Christians are parroting that lie, we need to be more 01:04:44.640 --> 01:04:48.880 wily and more concerned about what the final goal of such a 01:04:48.880 --> 01:04:49.760 lie is. 01:04:49.760 --> 01:04:53.120 And when we repeat them, when we say it's just skin color, 01:04:53.120 --> 01:04:56.240 skins is it's only skin deep, one race the human race, these 01:04:56.320 --> 01:04:59.520 these bumper sticker tropes that make people feel better. 01:04:59.520 --> 01:05:02.000 And maybe it's a good way to tamp down some disagreement that 01:05:02.000 --> 01:05:03.280 people two people have in the moment. 01:05:03.280 --> 01:05:05.840 And you say, look, it you know, this is a Noah family 01:05:05.840 --> 01:05:08.880 reunion, you guys need just get along. 01:05:08.880 --> 01:05:10.240 People should get along. 01:05:10.240 --> 01:05:13.920 They should get along peacefully, but it shouldn't be done in terms 01:05:13.920 --> 01:05:16.160 that cause us to have to lie to get there. 01:05:16.160 --> 01:05:17.680 That's not what God desires. 01:05:17.680 --> 01:05:21.440 He desires us to be peaceful, even in the face of things 01:05:21.440 --> 01:05:25.200 that are maybe not desirable, but we don't lie to get there. 01:05:25.920 --> 01:05:29.200 And when we lie about race, as Corey said, it's an attack 01:05:29.200 --> 01:05:30.160 on the creator. 01:05:30.160 --> 01:05:33.840 If you lie about how you were created, you were lying about 01:05:33.840 --> 01:05:35.360 he who created you. 01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:38.400 And he who created you is he who redeemed you. 01:05:38.400 --> 01:05:41.040 And we'll talk a lot more about that in the second episode. 01:05:41.040 --> 01:05:46.320 But again, these are these are theological questions that manifest in space 01:05:46.320 --> 01:05:47.120 and time. 01:05:47.120 --> 01:05:51.200 And the fact that they're all seen, particularly lately, through this Marxist 01:05:51.200 --> 01:05:54.000 lens, where again they don't want to talk about what race is. 01:05:54.000 --> 01:05:56.960 They just want to talk about it as a weapon. 01:05:56.960 --> 01:06:01.600 We as Christians must get away from accepting their frame and looking 01:06:01.600 --> 01:06:04.880 at the actual ground truth of these matters because fear failure to 01:06:04.880 --> 01:06:07.120 do that is set setting us up for failure. 01:06:07.120 --> 01:06:10.880 Because whatever lie you want to adopt, Satan has a step two 01:06:10.960 --> 01:06:12.720 or a step three for that lie. 01:06:12.720 --> 01:06:15.360 He knows what the next move is, even if we don't. 01:06:15.360 --> 01:06:18.400 And that's why it's so important to guard ourselves up front against 01:06:18.960 --> 01:06:21.440 not repeating some of these deceptions. 01:06:21.840 --> 01:06:26.000 To go back for a second to something we said earlier, to 01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:29.440 give people a a hard number since some will not be familiar 01:06:29.440 --> 01:06:33.520 with this When we say that human beings, one human being to 01:06:33.520 --> 01:06:38.400 another is going to be somewhere between ninety-eight and ninety-nine point nine 01:06:38.400 --> 01:06:45.760 percent the same genetically, human beings have three billion base pairs, roughly, 01:06:45.760 --> 01:06:47.200 in our genomes. 01:06:47.200 --> 01:06:52.000 So a difference of one tenth of one percent is three million 01:06:52.000 --> 01:06:53.200 base pairs. 01:06:53.200 --> 01:06:55.120 This is not a trivial difference. 01:06:55.120 --> 01:06:58.960 It sounds like a small difference until you realize the scale of 01:06:58.960 --> 01:07:01.200 the thing about which we are talking. 01:07:01.200 --> 01:07:04.880 And so when you're dealing with three billion base pairs, that one 01:07:04.960 --> 01:07:09.680 tenth of one percent difference is significant, particularly given the rate of 01:07:10.160 --> 01:07:12.160 mutations that occur over time. 01:07:12.640 --> 01:07:17.120 When we talked about race being skin deep, there was a a 01:07:17.120 --> 01:07:20.240 scientific scud study that was done about a year and a half 01:07:20.240 --> 01:07:25.040 ago. It was uh done by someone, a doctor who was basically 01:07:25.040 --> 01:07:32.400 employing what is called artificial intelligence uh to x-rays to make conclusions 01:07:32.400 --> 01:07:36.640 related to healthcare outcomes, basically trying to determine with with a a 01:07:36.640 --> 01:07:40.080 whole bunch of s of x-rays of people's chests and various other 01:07:40.080 --> 01:07:43.920 body parts to make sure that as it was going through their 01:07:43.920 --> 01:07:48.560 machinery that it would be giving them the desired outputs and not 01:07:48.560 --> 01:07:50.160 undesirable ones. 01:07:50.160 --> 01:07:55.600 And this person is diametrically opposed to us in terms of politics. 01:07:55.600 --> 01:07:59.120 There in fact I I actually had trouble finding the thread earlier 01:07:59.120 --> 01:08:01.840 today because the screenshot that I had of the thread was from 01:08:01.840 --> 01:08:02.640 a Dr. 01:08:02.640 --> 01:08:04.560 Luke, and now he's I think Dr. 01:08:04.720 --> 01:08:08.000 Laura. This the guy who did this is now pretending to be 01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:08.880 a woman. 01:08:08.880 --> 01:08:11.360 So that gives you some idea where he is on the political 01:08:11.360 --> 01:08:16.320 spectrum. And yet what he found in the paper that he and 01:08:16.320 --> 01:08:20.640 some other authors did was that when they fed these x-rays into 01:08:20.640 --> 01:08:25.920 their artificial intelligence algorithm, it was able to determine the race of 01:08:25.920 --> 01:08:29.120 the patient, even when that was never the question asked. 01:08:29.120 --> 01:08:33.120 Now the race that they were using wasn't anything based on genetics. 01:08:33.120 --> 01:08:34.720 It was simply self-identified. 01:08:34.720 --> 01:08:37.920 If the patient said on the form I'm white, I'm black, whatever, 01:08:37.920 --> 01:08:42.080 that was what they correlated back to the images. 01:08:42.080 --> 01:08:45.760 Now the important thing is that they never told the computer anything 01:08:45.760 --> 01:08:47.280 about any of the racial data. 01:08:47.280 --> 01:08:50.720 They just said, here are bunch of checks, chest x-rays, can you 01:08:50.720 --> 01:08:51.680 divide them up? 01:08:51.680 --> 01:08:56.320 What they found was that with a clear chest x-ray, the machinery, 01:08:56.320 --> 01:09:02.000 the computer algorithm, with ninety-nine percent accuracy was able to determine if 01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:05.040 someone was European, African, or Asian. 01:09:05.280 --> 01:09:06.640 I'm gonna say that again. 01:09:06.640 --> 01:09:10.400 Looking at a chest x-ray, the computer could tell if you were 01:09:10.400 --> 01:09:12.560 European, African, or Asian. 01:09:12.560 --> 01:09:14.080 No other information. 01:09:14.080 --> 01:09:17.200 Now the authors completely freaked out because they're like, oh my god, 01:09:17.200 --> 01:09:18.160 the computer's racist. 01:09:18.160 --> 01:09:18.800 What do we do? 01:09:18.800 --> 01:09:20.800 Because Because they were thinking the same thing a lot of you 01:09:20.800 --> 01:09:22.080 were thinking, the race isn't real. 01:09:22.080 --> 01:09:24.240 We're all one race, the human race. 01:09:24.240 --> 01:09:28.480 And if these computers are finding this race stuff in these images, 01:09:28.480 --> 01:09:30.320 we're in real trouble. 01:09:30.320 --> 01:09:33.200 Now I said artificial intelligence, because that's the term that's used, but 01:09:33.200 --> 01:09:35.680 it's really a nonsense term. 01:09:35.680 --> 01:09:40.400 What these specific computer algorithms do is simply pattern matching. 01:09:40.400 --> 01:09:45.040 They look at a collection of data, whether it's images or sounds 01:09:45.120 --> 01:09:50.480 or whatever, and they measure the probability with which one thing is 01:09:50.480 --> 01:09:54.240 likely to be similar to another. 01:09:54.240 --> 01:09:57.360 So when I say pattern matching, when you match a pattern as 01:09:57.360 --> 01:10:00.000 a person, maybe I show you a red ball and I show 01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:02.800 you a blue ball and ask you are they the same? 01:10:02.800 --> 01:10:05.600 And you would say, well, they're the same shape, but they're not 01:10:05.600 --> 01:10:06.240 the same color. 01:10:06.240 --> 01:10:07.520 What do you mean by same? 01:10:07.520 --> 01:10:09.440 If I showed you a red ball and a red ball and 01:10:09.440 --> 01:10:11.600 asked you are the same, the pattern would be, yeah, they're the 01:10:11.600 --> 01:10:14.880 same. Maybe the size varies, but the shape and the color are 01:10:14.880 --> 01:10:15.920 the same. 01:10:15.920 --> 01:10:19.760 So when a human pattern matches, it's based on particularity. 01:10:19.760 --> 01:10:22.160 Now we might generalize and just sort of a glance say, yeah, 01:10:22.160 --> 01:10:24.240 those two things are similar. 01:10:24.240 --> 01:10:26.640 The computers have no notion of ball. 01:10:26.880 --> 01:10:30.720 They have no concept of ballness or colorness or any of the 01:10:30.720 --> 01:10:34.240 other aptitudes, the other qualities of the thing. 01:10:34.240 --> 01:10:39.760 All they're doing is saying image one is 83% consistent with image 01:10:39.760 --> 01:10:41.360 two. And that's literally it. 01:10:41.920 --> 01:10:46.080 So when they fed these chest x-rays and all the other x-rays 01:10:46.320 --> 01:10:49.440 into the hopper, it didn't know what an x-ray was, it didn't 01:10:49.440 --> 01:10:51.840 know what a skeleton was, it didn't know what a human was. 01:10:51.840 --> 01:10:55.440 All it knew was that some bones and some other bones. 01:10:55.440 --> 01:11:00.080 And it was still able to divide them with 99% accuracy into 01:11:00.080 --> 01:11:03.840 the bucket of European, African, and Asian. 01:11:03.840 --> 01:11:08.320 Now if you individually have ever said race is only skin deep, 01:11:08.320 --> 01:11:12.800 race is a social construct, how do you process that? 01:11:12.800 --> 01:11:16.400 How do you deal with the fact that an X-ray can show 01:11:16.560 --> 01:11:19.200 and it wasn't a full body x-ray, it wasn't a skeleton. 01:11:19.200 --> 01:11:20.960 We'll get to skeletons in a moment. 01:11:20.960 --> 01:11:26.080 But when you just show a portion of a individual's skeleton to 01:11:26.080 --> 01:11:29.440 a machine, it's able to tell what race they were. 01:11:29.440 --> 01:11:31.840 Part of the reason it was so shocking to the scientists was 01:11:31.840 --> 01:11:33.120 they didn't know it was possible. 01:11:33.120 --> 01:11:38.560 It was a completely shocking revelation because no X-ray tech has ever 01:11:38.560 --> 01:11:42.080 been able to look at someone's chest x-ray, and I'd say, Yeah, 01:11:42.080 --> 01:11:43.680 that's a black guy, that's a white guy. 01:11:44.000 --> 01:11:44.960 it doesn't happen. 01:11:44.960 --> 01:11:47.920 And yet the computer, because it was able to see things the 01:11:47.920 --> 01:11:52.800 humans can't see, just in terms of statistical comparison, it said, yeah, 01:11:52.800 --> 01:11:54.800 these three buckets exist. 01:11:54.640 --> 01:11:58.320 and these three buckets have names the humans have given them, which 01:11:58.320 --> 01:12:01.440 are races, major mate racial groups. 01:12:01.440 --> 01:12:05.760 And the wildest part of this thing was that with perfectly clear 01:12:05.760 --> 01:12:09.520 x-rays, they were able to do with 99% accuracy. 01:12:09.520 --> 01:12:13.760 They also used degraded x-rays where they deleted more and more information, 01:12:13.760 --> 01:12:15.120 basically down resing it. 01:12:15.120 --> 01:12:17.920 So you're like if you have a 4K picture and you take 01:12:17.920 --> 01:12:20.480 it down to HD and then you take it bound to like, 01:12:20.480 --> 01:12:23.200 you know, imagine the original iPhone with like a three twenty by 01:12:23.200 --> 01:12:24.320 two forty screen. 01:12:24.320 --> 01:12:26.320 And you take it even smaller than that. 01:12:26.320 --> 01:12:29.520 They found that the computer was still able to tell what the 01:12:29.520 --> 01:12:33.600 race was, even with radically reduced resolution, which really blew their minds. 01:12:33.680 --> 01:12:35.680 Because like, where is it getting the information? 01:12:35.680 --> 01:12:39.920 And yet the consistent results were still over 90% accuracy. 01:12:39.920 --> 01:12:41.680 So they took it a step further. 01:12:41.680 --> 01:12:45.360 They took the original image that was high definition, but they began 01:12:45.360 --> 01:12:47.920 to apply a random noise filter to it. 01:12:47.920 --> 01:12:51.760 Now what that means is that they would randomly flip pixels, black 01:12:51.760 --> 01:12:52.240 or white. 01:12:52.240 --> 01:12:55.280 And so you what you got was just a gray fuzz. 01:12:55.280 --> 01:12:58.080 They were able to fuzz it to the point that the images 01:12:58.080 --> 01:13:00.160 themselves just look like gray squares. 01:13:00.160 --> 01:13:03.200 So as a human being looking at it, not only we you 01:13:03.200 --> 01:13:05.840 would know as an x-ray, you wouldn't be able to tell one 01:13:05.840 --> 01:13:10.080 image from apart from the other apart, and yet the the algorithm 01:13:10.080 --> 01:13:14.400 was still able to tell with ninety percent 90% accuracy that one 01:13:14.400 --> 01:13:18.400 image came from an African, another came from a European, and a 01:13:18.400 --> 01:13:20.240 third came from an Asian. 01:13:20.240 --> 01:13:23.520 Now all this is to say is that race is so deeply 01:13:23.520 --> 01:13:28.160 and inextricably linked inside our bodies that it manifests in ways that 01:13:28.160 --> 01:13:30.160 we had no idea even even existed. 01:13:30.160 --> 01:13:33.680 It wasn't until they fed all these images into the computer that 01:13:33.680 --> 01:13:36.800 anyone had any idea you could tell from a chest x-ray or 01:13:36.800 --> 01:13:39.360 a wrist x-ray what race someone was. 01:13:39.360 --> 01:13:42.800 There there's never been any study that showed that before, which doesn't 01:13:42.720 --> 01:13:43.680 say it's false. 01:13:43.680 --> 01:13:48.400 It was an absolutely true discovery, but it was completely unexpected. 01:13:48.400 --> 01:13:50.880 And was unexpected by people who were terrified. 01:13:50.880 --> 01:13:54.000 The paper that they wrote was basically, oh my god, the computer's 01:13:54.000 --> 01:13:56.320 racist. How do we lobotomize it? 01:13:56.320 --> 01:14:00.000 Because again, if if there's one race, the human race, and yet 01:14:00.000 --> 01:14:02.960 the computer is saying this guy is white, this guy is Asian, 01:14:03.520 --> 01:14:07.360 If you deny race, you're going to be terrified of the fact 01:14:07.360 --> 01:14:11.120 that the computer is reaching impermissible outcomes. 01:14:11.120 --> 01:14:13.360 And so it was a cause for hysteria. 01:14:13.360 --> 01:14:16.560 But I look at it and say, well, on one hand, it's 01:14:16.480 --> 01:14:19.440 kind of surprising how much it was intrinsic, but on the other 01:14:19.440 --> 01:14:20.960 hand, it's not surprising at all. 01:14:20.960 --> 01:14:24.880 It's because we know, as we m as we pointed back in 01:14:24.880 --> 01:14:31.600 the albino example, facial structure, skull structure is radically different There's there 01:14:31.760 --> 01:14:36.400 are intrinsic aspects of human beings that are distinctly categorized by race 01:14:36.720 --> 01:14:39.360 that have nothing to do with skin color, they have nothing to 01:14:39.360 --> 01:14:43.600 do with anything except for after thousands of years of of variation, 01:14:43.600 --> 01:14:46.880 of genetic variation, we've come out differently. 01:14:46.880 --> 01:14:48.880 Which again is not a value judgment. 01:14:48.880 --> 01:14:52.240 It's just saying that we're different in observable ways. 01:14:52.240 --> 01:14:55.440 And as Christians, we should be able to say, yes, we're observed, 01:14:55.440 --> 01:15:00.160 we're different in observable ways, without feeling that that threatens anyone's salvation 01:15:00.320 --> 01:15:03.520 or that it threatens the gospel, because it absolutely doesn't. 01:15:03.520 --> 01:15:07.280 What does threaten the gospel is lying about these things, and that 01:15:07.280 --> 01:15:09.280 should be our chief concern. 01:15:09.200 --> 01:15:09.360 So 01:15:09.520 --> 01:15:14.000 it's interesting that a machine would be able to pick out race 01:15:14.160 --> 01:15:17.920 from something that for a human being looking at it, it would 01:15:17.920 --> 01:15:20.160 be effectively noise. 01:15:20.160 --> 01:15:24.160 There would be essentially no signal there that would be discernible by 01:15:24.160 --> 01:15:28.000 us, and that was just with chest x-rays. 01:15:28.000 --> 01:15:33.680 Human beings can actually tell, trained human beings, obviously, can tell from 01:15:33.680 --> 01:15:34.080 skeletons 01:15:35.040 --> 01:15:38.960 the race and the the sex of someone. 01:15:38.960 --> 01:15:44.320 Because there are very distinct formations, the way the skeleton is shaped, 01:15:44.320 --> 01:15:47.600 different densities, all sorts of things that you can tell. 01:15:47.600 --> 01:15:52.320 So you can tell the race and the sex of someone from 01:15:52.320 --> 01:15:53.680 a skeleton alone. 01:15:53.680 --> 01:15:55.120 And we see this all the time. 01:15:55.120 --> 01:15:59.360 This is done all the time by anthropologists, by archaeologists, by those 01:15:59.360 --> 01:16:03.920 who are studying ancient civilizations, if you dig up a skeleton and 01:16:03.920 --> 01:16:09.040 you have the training, you can definitively say that was a European 01:16:09.040 --> 01:16:12.160 male between these ages. 01:16:12.160 --> 01:16:12.560 And so 01:16:13.440 --> 01:16:16.320 obviously yes, a computer can do this as well, because a computer 01:16:16.320 --> 01:16:18.960 can do it from an x-ray that's downgraded to the point of 01:16:18.960 --> 01:16:23.680 being noise, but it's just further refutation of those who would try 01:16:23.680 --> 01:16:27.440 to say that skin color is race or that race is skin 01:16:27.440 --> 01:16:29.280 color, that it's skin deep. 01:16:29.280 --> 01:16:30.880 It's not. 01:16:30.880 --> 01:16:32.880 There are fundamental differences. 01:16:32.880 --> 01:16:35.840 And you can see that in the skeletal structure, you can see 01:16:35.840 --> 01:16:39.040 that in the biology, you can see that in we'll get into 01:16:39.040 --> 01:16:42.800 in later episodes, behavior and other things. 01:16:42.800 --> 01:16:47.360 Race is a fundamental part of human nature, and that is by 01:16:47.360 --> 01:16:48.720 God's design. 01:16:48.720 --> 01:16:52.000 Because of course human nature is God's design. 01:16:52.240 --> 01:16:56.080 And in the case of skeletons being dug up, this is actually 01:16:56.080 --> 01:16:58.960 an important part of forensics for police. 01:16:58.960 --> 01:17:03.360 If they discover a skeleton in a field or something for a 01:17:03.360 --> 01:17:06.240 person who's been dead for some time and there's no no longer 01:17:06.240 --> 01:17:10.960 any distinguishing physical characteristics, they will call it call in these experts 01:17:11.120 --> 01:17:15.520 who can clearly determine the race, the the sex. 01:17:15.520 --> 01:17:18.080 And in case in some cases, you know, even the age and 01:17:18.080 --> 01:17:21.440 perhaps the the sort of life that the person led. 01:17:21.520 --> 01:17:24.560 One of the interesting things from anthropology when uh digging up older 01:17:24.560 --> 01:17:27.120 skeletons is that they can tell, for example 01:17:28.080 --> 01:17:31.680 or any any skeleton really, they can tell what sort of childhood 01:17:31.680 --> 01:17:33.200 and upbringing you had. 01:17:33.200 --> 01:17:36.320 They can determine the rate of your uh your nutrition. 01:17:36.640 --> 01:17:37.760 Were you being fed well? 01:17:37.760 --> 01:17:39.360 Were you being underfed? 01:17:39.360 --> 01:17:43.040 They can tell if you led an active physical lifestyle. 01:17:43.040 --> 01:17:48.880 So if someone was engaged in strenuous physical activity, particularly as they 01:17:48.880 --> 01:17:53.760 are going through puberty, that actually affects your glow growth plates. 01:17:53.760 --> 01:17:56.800 So your bones will look different than someone who led a more 01:17:56.800 --> 01:17:57.840 sedentary life. 01:17:58.320 --> 01:18:03.040 Which in the case of history will tend to indicate what cast 01:18:03.040 --> 01:18:04.800 someone fell into, what class. 01:18:04.800 --> 01:18:06.080 You know, were they a laborer? 01:18:06.080 --> 01:18:07.200 Were they a warrior? 01:18:07.200 --> 01:18:10.240 Were they, you know, someone who lived in a castle and maybe 01:18:10.240 --> 01:18:14.080 they they did those things for fun or for training, but not 01:18:14.080 --> 01:18:15.920 because it was life and death. 01:18:15.920 --> 01:18:20.240 So all of these things are manifest in our physical bodies and 01:18:20.240 --> 01:18:23.520 they're left long after our skin is gone. 01:18:23.520 --> 01:18:27.120 And this too has been become controversial recently. 01:18:27.120 --> 01:18:30.640 I was reading an account earlier today from a girl who was 01:18:30.720 --> 01:18:36.400 I believe she was teaching a class related to the study of 01:18:36.800 --> 01:18:40.720 bones dug up by police to identify victims. 01:18:40.720 --> 01:18:45.360 And the professor who was supervising the class and the students lost 01:18:45.360 --> 01:18:47.920 their minds when she did when she said that you can tell 01:18:47.920 --> 01:18:50.800 the race of someone by their skeleton. 01:18:51.200 --> 01:18:53.120 they went into a frenzy. 01:18:53.120 --> 01:18:57.040 They were so upset at the idea that you could tell the 01:18:57.040 --> 01:18:59.920 race of a person without looking at their skin color. 01:18:59.920 --> 01:19:04.720 Now that's not the response of someone pursuing an academic truth. 01:19:04.720 --> 01:19:07.040 That's not the response of someone who 01:19:08.000 --> 01:19:11.520 has in their mind, I want to learn what is real. 01:19:11.680 --> 01:19:13.760 That's a religious response. 01:19:13.760 --> 01:19:18.000 When you say something and people weep and they gnash their teeth 01:19:18.160 --> 01:19:22.960 and they tear their clothes and they howl, that is religious. 01:19:22.960 --> 01:19:26.160 That is a religious response to hearing blasphemy. 01:19:26.160 --> 01:19:31.120 And we're doing this episode because it's blasphemous, not against God, but 01:19:31.120 --> 01:19:37.360 discussing race in these realistic terms is absolutely blasphemous to the spirit 01:19:37.360 --> 01:19:41.600 of this modern age, which for a while again said yes race 01:19:41.600 --> 01:19:45.200 was real when they were talking about evolution, but now that they're 01:19:45.200 --> 01:19:49.600 trying to collapse all of humanity back before the power tower of 01:19:49.600 --> 01:19:55.840 Babel into a s single seething mass of ind undifferentiated humanity with 01:19:55.840 --> 01:20:01.040 neither sex nor race nor any distinguishing characteristics apart from being a 01:20:01.040 --> 01:20:06.320 consumer. The spirit of this age is in opposition to telling the 01:20:06.320 --> 01:20:08.480 truth about the truth about these things now. 01:20:08.480 --> 01:20:13.520 And unfortunately, most Christians are behind the eight-ball because we have not 01:20:13.520 --> 01:20:17.280 seriously engaged in the question because of the origins of some of 01:20:17.280 --> 01:20:17.600 the things. 01:20:17.600 --> 01:20:22.160 Yeah, we've we've talked many times about the genealogy of ideas, and 01:20:22.160 --> 01:20:25.840 I've tried to focus when we when we discuss that on the 01:20:25.840 --> 01:20:30.160 genealogy is not simply from whence it came, but what was the 01:20:30.160 --> 01:20:33.040 original motivation of whoever was coming up with it. 01:20:33.440 --> 01:20:37.680 Now, race has always been understood by human beings. 01:20:37.680 --> 01:20:39.280 It's found throughout scripture. 01:20:39.280 --> 01:20:42.720 We've talked about that in the two previous episodes I mentioned. 01:20:42.720 --> 01:20:46.960 The differentiation between the races has become greater and greater over time 01:20:47.040 --> 01:20:50.640 as we as we left Mount Anarat and finally filled the earth 01:20:50.720 --> 01:20:52.240 as God commanded. 01:20:52.240 --> 01:20:57.200 There's far more diversity genetically today than there was five hundred years 01:20:57.200 --> 01:21:02.480 after Mount Ararat, because as Corey's mentioning, that's simply how mutation works. 01:21:02.480 --> 01:21:05.360 And that is how the migration of these genes back and forth 01:21:05.360 --> 01:21:07.920 among people as they reproduce works. 01:21:07.920 --> 01:21:10.800 That's not contrary to God's plan. 01:21:10.800 --> 01:21:14.880 And you can see in Revelation 7:9 that all the nations are 01:21:14.880 --> 01:21:16.400 gathered around the throne. 01:21:16.400 --> 01:21:20.240 And when John was looking at them, he could tell what race 01:21:20.240 --> 01:21:20.720 they were. 01:21:20.720 --> 01:21:23.360 He could tell that they were from the various nations. 01:21:23.360 --> 01:21:27.200 So that that goes back to the the Gnostic element of this 01:21:27.200 --> 01:21:28.960 denial of the flesh. 01:21:28.960 --> 01:21:32.960 It is fundamentally Gnostic for us to say, oh, we're all just 01:21:32.960 --> 01:21:35.920 spirits. Well we'll get a new body that won't be anything like 01:21:35.920 --> 01:21:37.440 this body we have now. 01:21:37.440 --> 01:21:39.360 That's utterly blasphemous. 01:21:39.360 --> 01:21:44.640 God created you personally exactly as He intended you to be. 01:21:44.640 --> 01:21:49.360 Now, what came out of your mother's womb is indeed injured by 01:21:49.360 --> 01:21:51.760 sin and by degradation. 01:21:51.760 --> 01:21:55.280 When God raises us from the dead, all of those degradations, all 01:21:55.280 --> 01:21:59.680 of the genetic deformities, all the defects will be washed away. 01:21:59.680 --> 01:22:02.000 Nothing will be present that isn't perfect. 01:22:02.000 --> 01:22:05.600 But the imperfections that are washed away will not include the race 01:22:05.600 --> 01:22:09.280 that we are, because that is absolutely a part of God's perfect 01:22:09.280 --> 01:22:13.040 plan. It's part of the plan in Acts seventeen twenty six, when 01:22:13.040 --> 01:22:16.160 he describes the nations being given the boundaries of their dwelling places, 01:22:16.160 --> 01:22:20.320 and it's present in Revelation seven nine before the throne of God, 01:22:20.320 --> 01:22:24.400 when all the nations of the world, of every color, of every 01:22:24.400 --> 01:22:28.640 appearance, of every language, gather before the throne of God, which means 01:22:28.640 --> 01:22:33.600 that they are perfected in the languages and the physical bodies that 01:22:33.600 --> 01:22:36.480 they were given in this life. 01:22:36.480 --> 01:22:39.920 The race that you're given is the race that you will always 01:22:39.920 --> 01:22:42.160 be. And if you despise that 01:22:43.200 --> 01:22:47.200 you need to be seriously concerned because if you're despising how God 01:22:47.200 --> 01:22:50.880 created you, the damned are resurrected too. 01:22:51.360 --> 01:22:54.480 there's no annihilationism in scripture. 01:22:54.480 --> 01:22:57.440 Every dead man will be raised on the last day. 01:22:57.680 --> 01:23:00.800 And the sheep are then separated from the goats. 01:23:00.800 --> 01:23:04.880 So those who deny their race and deny their creator as a 01:23:04.880 --> 01:23:09.440 result of it and deny the resurrection of the body by saying, 01:23:09.440 --> 01:23:11.520 Well, I'm not going to be raised as a white man or 01:23:11.520 --> 01:23:14.560 as a a Japanese man or as a Ugandan. 01:23:14.560 --> 01:23:18.480 I'm just going to be raised as as something new. 01:23:18.480 --> 01:23:20.080 You're flirting with damnation. 01:23:20.080 --> 01:23:21.440 And God will sort that out. 01:23:21.440 --> 01:23:24.000 I'm not I'm not saying that you're not saved if you say 01:23:24.000 --> 01:23:28.000 those things, but I am saying that you are saying to God, 01:23:28.000 --> 01:23:31.440 I hate what you made, I want to be something different. 01:23:31.440 --> 01:23:34.880 That is not a confession that any of us should seek to 01:23:34.880 --> 01:23:36.800 take before the throne of God. 01:23:36.800 --> 01:23:40.320 When Christ died for each of us and his blood covers our 01:23:40.320 --> 01:23:45.360 sins and washes our robes white in his blood, that is for 01:23:45.360 --> 01:23:48.880 every man who has ever descended from Adam, but only the robes 01:23:48.880 --> 01:23:51.920 of those who confess Christ will receive that. 01:23:51.920 --> 01:23:56.480 And confessing Christ means confessing how He created us. 01:23:56.480 --> 01:23:59.440 We were created through Him, we were redeemed through Him, we will 01:23:59.440 --> 01:24:01.440 be resurrected with him. 01:24:01.440 --> 01:24:04.720 And if we take a hatred of self and a hatred of 01:24:04.720 --> 01:24:09.840 creation to judgment day, that's a sin that we need to repent 01:24:09.840 --> 01:24:10.800 for as well. 01:24:10.800 --> 01:24:15.680 And denial of race and denial of these truths is a sin, 01:24:15.680 --> 01:24:20.000 even though there are some who use these truths for evil ends, 01:24:20.000 --> 01:24:23.600 that does not make the truths themselves evil, that makes the truths 01:24:23.600 --> 01:24:25.520 themselves truth. 01:24:25.360 --> 01:24:26.800 truth can be a weapon. 01:24:26.800 --> 01:24:29.440 Truth can do harm or it can do good. 01:24:29.440 --> 01:24:32.080 But you do not solve the harm that can be done by 01:24:32.080 --> 01:24:34.720 a truth by denying that it's true. 01:24:34.720 --> 01:24:37.920 And as Christians, we have no choice but to engage first in 01:24:37.920 --> 01:24:42.080 truth and then to approach and love all that which is true. 01:24:42.080 --> 01:24:45.520 So as the future episodes come and we go into more detail 01:24:45.520 --> 01:24:50.640 on the spiritual aspects of this, I want everyone to keep in 01:24:50.640 --> 01:24:55.040 mind that this is not some sideshow. 01:24:55.040 --> 01:24:58.880 We can see in the world how much race matters to Satan. 01:24:58.880 --> 01:25:02.320 And if it matters to Satan, it must matter to Christians. 01:25:02.320 --> 01:25:07.760 And until we've done this episode, I'm not aware of any serious 01:25:07.760 --> 01:25:13.760 discussion among Christians that had any depth or clarity that would address 01:25:13.760 --> 01:25:16.480 these issues in a way that's going to be blasphemous to the 01:25:16.480 --> 01:25:19.280 world, but yet consistent with scripture. 01:25:19.280 --> 01:25:22.080 And I hope that there will be more Christians who will begin 01:25:22.080 --> 01:25:25.600 to study and think and engage in this way, because 01:25:26.880 --> 01:25:29.600 I think that the time is growing short for the church. 01:25:29.600 --> 01:25:31.680 And I think that we should be prepared to give a defense 01:25:32.000 --> 01:25:34.240 for everything, including creation itself. 01:25:34.240 --> 01:25:37.040 Uh so I'd encourage everyone to please look at the show notes, 01:25:37.040 --> 01:25:39.440 look at the uh all the different links we'll have there. 01:25:39.440 --> 01:25:41.120 This is probably gonna have more than most. 01:25:41.120 --> 01:25:43.360 Uh I would like to mention one of the s websites that 01:25:43.360 --> 01:25:46.480 we're gonna link to is from uh an old friend from Twitter, 01:25:46.480 --> 01:25:49.440 Thultide. He's not a Christian. 01:25:49.440 --> 01:25:53.200 He is an old earth evolutionist, so many of the things that 01:25:53.200 --> 01:25:58.320 he says you will find offensive for some of the conclusions. 01:25:58.320 --> 01:26:01.840 The reason that we're going to link to him is that he's 01:26:01.840 --> 01:26:04.960 honest. There are some things that are said within the right wing 01:26:04.960 --> 01:26:08.480 sphere on Twitter that are based on race that he will also 01:26:08.480 --> 01:26:12.400 refute to the right when it doesn't agree with the facts. 01:26:12.400 --> 01:26:14.720 I don't know his background, but I can tell from reading him 01:26:14.720 --> 01:26:15.600 for many years. 01:26:15.600 --> 01:26:18.640 He's a very smart guy and he really knows his stuff. 01:26:18.640 --> 01:26:21.360 And so we're going to link to him because he has a 01:26:21.360 --> 01:26:25.440 number of one oh one articles that go down some of the 01:26:25.440 --> 01:26:27.680 fallacies are involved in this subject. 01:26:27.680 --> 01:26:29.600 Many things you you may well believe now. 01:26:29.600 --> 01:26:32.320 We've refuted a few of them, but there are plenty of others. 01:26:32.320 --> 01:26:34.960 So as you look at that again, I would encourage you to 01:26:34.960 --> 01:26:37.280 try to separate the wheat from the traff. 01:26:37.920 --> 01:26:40.880 There will be things on the webpage that I will I will 01:26:40.880 --> 01:26:44.960 tell you right now, some of the conclusions, particularly around the timelines, 01:26:44.960 --> 01:26:48.080 saying that these things took hundreds of thousands of years. 01:26:48.080 --> 01:26:49.280 Those are false. 01:26:49.280 --> 01:26:52.000 That does not mean that the data itself is false. 01:26:52.320 --> 01:26:54.560 And so as you look through it, I hope that you'll find 01:26:54.560 --> 01:26:58.880 some value as a Christian in synthesizing what you know from scripture 01:26:59.040 --> 01:27:02.080 from the facts that are found within your own body. 01:27:02.080 --> 01:27:03.680 Because those pages are about you too. 01:27:03.680 --> 01:27:05.760 They're about the stuff that's inside you. 01:27:05.760 --> 01:27:06.960 They're how God made you. 01:27:06.960 --> 01:27:08.480 They're how God made each of us. 01:27:08.480 --> 01:27:10.880 And that's something that we should know about and we should give 01:27:10.880 --> 01:27:11.680 thanks for. 01:27:11.680 --> 01:27:13.440 And we cannot deny. 01:27:13.440 --> 01:27:16.720 And so it is because of our love and our thanks for 01:27:16.720 --> 01:27:19.760 God and how He's done these things in our lives, that we're 01:27:19.680 --> 01:27:22.480 doing these episodes because it's a challenging subject. 01:27:22.480 --> 01:27:26.080 And frankly, just discussing race is enough for people to try to 01:27:26.080 --> 01:27:27.360 dox and destroy you. 01:27:27.360 --> 01:27:31.120 As recording this right now there's a massive campaign to dox us 01:27:31.120 --> 01:27:34.240 and to get us expelled from our churches for saying these things, 01:27:34.240 --> 01:27:36.880 which are not hateful, they're simply truthful. 01:27:36.880 --> 01:27:40.560 But the fact that that elicits so much hate, I think, is 01:27:40.560 --> 01:27:43.600 itself that this is a really big deal for Satan. 01:27:43.600 --> 01:27:46.160 And as Christians, it needs to be a something that we at 01:27:46.160 --> 01:27:49.920 least give due consideration as well, because souls are on the line. 01:27:50.240 --> 01:27:52.960 Yes, as we record, I know there are people who are attempting 01:27:52.960 --> 01:27:56.240 to harass my pastor. 01:27:56.240 --> 01:27:59.280 But at any rate, to address an issue that I know will 01:27:59.280 --> 01:28:04.480 come up for some people, there's the question of how Marxism plays 01:28:04.480 --> 01:28:05.040 into this. 01:28:05.040 --> 01:28:09.840 Because I know some will think well Marxists deny that race is 01:28:09.840 --> 01:28:12.560 real, and that's true, they do that today. 01:28:12.560 --> 01:28:16.240 But you have to realize, as we mentioned in previous episodes, you 01:28:16.240 --> 01:28:20.800 can go back to the immediately previous episode, Marxism is a mercenary 01:28:20.800 --> 01:28:23.840 ideology. It is ends seeking. 01:28:23.840 --> 01:28:29.920 It has no actual core when it comes to principles or anything 01:28:29.920 --> 01:28:30.720 like that. 01:28:30.720 --> 01:28:35.360 And so there is no standard to which you can hold it. 01:28:35.360 --> 01:28:38.240 It has a goal in mind, and it will do whatever it 01:28:38.240 --> 01:28:39.440 takes to reach that goal. 01:28:39.440 --> 01:28:40.960 Of course, the goal is unobtainable. 01:28:40.960 --> 01:28:43.600 It's a utopia, which for those who know a little bit of 01:28:43.600 --> 01:28:47.120 Greek know that utopia means not a place. 01:28:47.120 --> 01:28:49.520 That's why it's a joke. 01:28:49.520 --> 01:28:54.960 But the early Marxist theorists, including Marx, were all very firmly in 01:28:54.960 --> 01:28:57.920 the race realist camp. 01:28:57.920 --> 01:29:01.440 I have a number of quotes here I'm looking at from Marx, 01:29:01.440 --> 01:29:05.200 and he at the very least addresses the German, the Jewish, and 01:29:05.280 --> 01:29:08.000 I will say the African, because I am not going to use 01:29:08.000 --> 01:29:09.920 the word that he did races. 01:29:11.760 --> 01:29:15.760 And so you have race realism from them in the beginning, and 01:29:15.760 --> 01:29:20.960 you have an explicit argument from the Marxist theorists that you have 01:29:20.960 --> 01:29:23.280 to destroy these distinctions. 01:29:23.280 --> 01:29:29.600 Because the goal is a creation of an undifferentiated global humanity without 01:29:29.600 --> 01:29:34.800 borders, without differences, all of one class, of course, this is all 01:29:34.800 --> 01:29:39.520 impossible to achieve, but that's the goal, and because it's what we 01:29:39.520 --> 01:29:43.120 said earlier in the episode, in this episode, it's Babel. 01:29:43.120 --> 01:29:46.320 They want to remake Babel. 01:29:46.320 --> 01:29:49.440 Their goals are wicked and they will do whatever it takes to 01:29:49.440 --> 01:29:50.160 get there. 01:29:50.160 --> 01:29:53.280 Early on they affirm the races because they won't have to affirm 01:29:53.280 --> 01:29:56.880 the reality in order to argue that they need to be destroyed. 01:29:56.880 --> 01:30:00.640 Now that they have made some progress toward the ends of destruction, 01:30:00.640 --> 01:30:04.720 they argue they don't exist, and so you shouldn't do anything. 01:30:04.800 --> 01:30:09.280 that recognizes that you have a racial identity, that you're a member 01:30:09.280 --> 01:30:13.200 of a nation, because they want to deny the reality of God's 01:30:13.200 --> 01:30:19.600 good creation and restore the wickedness of Babel. 01:30:19.600 --> 01:30:20.960 That is the end goal. 01:30:20.960 --> 01:30:24.880 The end goal is rebellion against God and subversion. 01:30:24.880 --> 01:30:26.800 That is what all of this is, and that is why we 01:30:26.800 --> 01:30:28.320 are discussing the issue. 01:30:28.320 --> 01:30:33.520 We discuss these issues because Christians have to know where the battlefield 01:30:33.520 --> 01:30:37.520 is and what is being fought, the issues over which we are 01:30:37.520 --> 01:30:38.800 actually fighting. 01:30:38.800 --> 01:30:42.320 Because if you're standing on a different battlefield where the enemy isn't 01:30:42.240 --> 01:30:44.560 there, it doesn't matter what you do. 01:30:44.560 --> 01:30:45.920 You've lost. 01:30:45.920 --> 01:30:48.880 Because the enemy is attacking the other side of the city. 01:30:48.880 --> 01:30:52.400 And that is why we will keep harping on issues like this. 01:30:52.400 --> 01:30:55.760 We will keep addressing these issues because these are the things that 01:30:55.760 --> 01:30:57.040 are important. 01:30:57.040 --> 01:31:00.320 If they do not get addressed, if Christians do not realize the 01:31:00.320 --> 01:31:04.800 reality of what is happening, of what the enemy is doing, then 01:31:04.800 --> 01:31:08.640 it doesn't matter how true you believe you are being, to scripture, 01:31:08.640 --> 01:31:13.520 to the faith, to God, because you are not opposing the things 01:31:13.520 --> 01:31:18.080 that Satan is attacking, you are not defending where Satan is attacking 01:31:18.080 --> 01:31:21.440 you. And that is what we want Christians to do. 01:31:21.440 --> 01:31:23.200 The church has to be defended. 01:31:23.200 --> 01:31:25.440 That is one of the duties of a Christian man is to 01:31:25.440 --> 01:31:28.800 defend the church, to defend his family. 01:31:28.800 --> 01:31:32.160 And you cannot do that if you do not understand the enemy, 01:31:32.160 --> 01:31:34.480 if you do not know when the enemy is going to attack 01:31:34.480 --> 01:31:36.480 and where he is attacking. 01:31:36.480 --> 01:31:38.720 That is why we address these issues. 01:31:38.720 --> 01:31:41.680 We don't address the issue because we're obsessed with it, because we 01:31:41.680 --> 01:31:45.360 find it particularly interesting or anything like that. 01:31:45.360 --> 01:31:48.720 If not for the fact that the enemy is attacking here, we 01:31:48.720 --> 01:31:52.160 probably wouldn't dedicate any time to this stuff. 01:31:52.160 --> 01:31:56.880 But because the enemy is attacking it, because Christians are caught unaware, 01:31:56.880 --> 01:32:00.080 that is why we are addressing these issues. 01:32:00.320 --> 01:32:03.840 And so we need you to listen carefully to what it is 01:32:03.840 --> 01:32:07.600 we're saying and what it is we are not saying, to read 01:32:07.600 --> 01:32:10.880 through the materials in the show notes if you need the additional 01:32:10.880 --> 01:32:15.120 context. And yes, if you still have questions, please do send those. 01:32:15.120 --> 01:32:16.240 We are reading them. 01:32:16.240 --> 01:32:18.480 We do, we know we have a backlog of them. 01:32:18.480 --> 01:32:21.280 We will address them as we have time and as they come 01:32:21.280 --> 01:32:26.160 up. But it is important for Christians to understand 01:32:27.120 --> 01:32:29.120 what is going on in the world. 01:32:29.120 --> 01:32:32.240 You are not called simply to be as harmless as a dove, 01:32:32.240 --> 01:32:34.960 but also to be as wise as a serpent. 01:32:34.960 --> 01:32:36.960 And this is part of that. 01:32:36.960 --> 01:32:48.320 So pay careful attention, do your homework, and ask questions.