[Junior]

Darwin's work was an advance away from the "science" of the racist creationist anthropologists of his day. That's what all the evidence, including your evidence, shows. Be a man and clean up your mess.

Indeed, racism against blacks was actually Biblically-based:

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid [it] upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces [were] backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed [be] Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. [Gen 9:22-27]

These verses were used to justify enslaving blacks (making servants of the children of Ham).

[js1138]

Aside from the bogus assumption that one of Noah's children was an African-Israelite, the moral lesson here is a bit weird.

[VadeRetro]

Exactly. You have a society which was pretty much top-to-bottom racist. Darwin actually caused a lurch away from the automatic assumption that anyone browner than you was somehow inferior. But creationists call for a rejection of Darwin's valid scientific theory because Darwin wasn't "2005" in every detail of his thought. (As if creationists are.)

[VadeRetro]

As that article by Haller points out, some few of the creationists of the mid-19th century, Louis Aggasiz for one, did not interpret Genesis that way. ("Inferior" races are degenerate sons of Noah.) Aggasiz and the other polygeneticists thought the darker races were separately created "kinds." They have no common ancestry with white humans. Whether or not Aggasiz himself felt that way about it, such a model wonderfully allows such races to be considered lower animals with only a superficial, monkey-like similarity to real humans.

Again, the creationists who are supposedly trying to topple "Darwinism" because "Darwin was a racist" favor a model of the diversity of life on Earth utterly the same as the racist creationists Haller describes at the beginning of that article.