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To: odawg
But you are assuming that everyone was non-white.

No, you are assuming that I am assuming that everyone was non-white.

For all I know or care, Abraham, Moses, Esau, King David, Jesus, etc. may have been all blue-eyed blondes; I am no anthropologist or student of Middle Eastern tribal migrations.

So, if I uncover a clay tablet written in cuneiform (or happen upon a passage in the Bible), and it says "He was a big man, with a light complexion," I make no assumptions about the stature or the amount of melanin in that man's skin - excepting that I might guess that the individual in question was taller and lighter than his compatriots.

It has paintings of church fathers and saints on the walls. Guess what? They are all Caucasian.

Might be due to any of a number of other factors: Available pigments, artistic conventions, practical considerations, weathering and erosion over time, etc.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you exhibit "A" - the drawings of the famed 19th-century naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. ALL of the American Indians he portrayed look like Europeans (i.e., European body types and facial features). All he did was to supply them with native garb and nut-brown complexions.

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102 posted on 05/13/2016 10:40:35 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

To borrow a line from Thomas Sowell, you are a classic example of someone who is so open minded your brains have rolled out.

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103 posted on 05/14/2016 5:40:18 AM PDT by odawg
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