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To: SkyPilot
I have not read the book so I have no opinion on its conclusions. I do find it amusing that the same group that treats Darwin as gospel and scoffs at any type of creation or intelligent design somehow thinks that humans evolving in radically different environments from each other would end up mentally identical as if there is some devine force keeping everything “fair”.
46 posted on 12/22/2014 7:00:23 AM PST by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: CrazyIvan
"As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace."

1 Peter 4:10

God gives each of us gifts. There is no "evolution" - although I do firmly believe that human behavior and cultures are influenced by physical geography (i.e. those raised in desert vs. temperate climates), as well as social and religious factors. Those raised in the Judeo-Christian west are vastly different from those raised in Muslim nations (even if the former are largely secular, there is still a bond of the past and the west's religious foundations).

If you read the Old Testament, you see God vividly describe various races and tribes of people ( from Midan, Cush, Assyria, Egypt, Gomer, Canaan, Edom, Ammon, Persia, Scythia, etc).

He also describes differences from one people to the next (some as warriors, others as merchants, others as skilled artisans, others as brutal, etc).

Jesus said that all are welcome at His Father's table, and that He came to save the whole world. He is great equalizer - all are sinners, and all are in need of a Savior.

It is, however, not true that God does not recognize differences between people and nations. He judges both individuals, and He judges nations. He made all races, and they are sacred in that way, but there are different gifts given and there are differences.

What I was taught in public school was that there were NO differences between any peoples. Not in intellect, not in motivation, not in temperament, not in shared values. We were all the same - one big melting pot of humanity.

Then, something changed - there were suddenly differences, and we had to "celebrate" them - "Celebrate Diversity!" The Left began to sense its power, and wanted to marginalize and "fight back against its oppressors!"

What I quickly discovered was that this was code word for "Celebrate Everybody Except Those of European Descent!"

48 posted on 12/22/2014 7:17:34 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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