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Race Has No Meaning Genetically, Researchers Say
CNN.com Science/News
| Tuesday, December 17,2002
| staff writer
Posted on 12/17/2002 9:27:02 AM PST by yankeedame
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To: yankeedame
AHA! Now we can get past ethnicity for good, and affirm once and for all that G-d is colorblind. Merry Christmas!
To: yankeedame
Tell it to the Japanese ....BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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posted on
12/17/2002 9:31:25 AM PST
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joesnuffy
To: widowithfoursons
IF GOD is colorblind....then why did HE make different races?
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posted on
12/17/2002 9:32:29 AM PST
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joesnuffy
To: joesnuffy
There are a few groups right here in these (sort of) United States of America who need to hear this message, too. Even some on this forum.
To: yankeedame
Strictly speaking, nothing has any meaning genetically speaking. Genetics just are.
However, it is absurd on its face to say that skin color is not genetic. Otherwise babies would be born with random skin colors, regardless of parental skin color, etc.
Politics and religion should be kept out of science. They just corrupt and debase things.
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posted on
12/17/2002 9:33:39 AM PST
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jlogajan
To: yankeedame
And yet racial characteristics "breed true," in the sense that you don't see to many Nordic blondes being born to members of the Masai, and vice versa -- and also in the sense that the characteristics of the parents show up in their mixed-race kids.
So the title of the story seems wrong to begin with -- and is confirmed to be wrong by the body: They found 10 gene variations that could reliably tell apart, genetically, 20 men from northern Portugal and 20 men from Sao Tome island on the west coast of Africa.
IOW, "skin color" does not define the genetic difference -- something else does.
But racial differences are observably genetic, regardless.
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posted on
12/17/2002 9:33:43 AM PST
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r9etb
To: yankeedame
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Race not reflected in genes, study says"
Tell that to people who suffer from Sickle-Cell Anemia or Tay Sachs....
To: joesnuffy
He also set the borders of the nations. What men want to create is another Tower of Babel. God looks ONLY at the heart, and could care less what color we are.
To: yankeedame
"To their surprise, they found maternal DNA suggested that even the "white" people had, on average, 33 percent of genes that were of Amerindian ancestry and 28 percent African."
So there are no racial genetic differences but there are genetic differences between African and Amerindian ancestry. This is nonsense.
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To: yankeedame
White men can't jump?
To: yankeedame
The Brazilian researchers looked at one of the most racially mixed populations in the world for their study, which found there is no way to look at someone's genes and determine his or her race. Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but if you wanted to look for the genetic markers for race, wouldn't you want to look at and then compare the *least* racially mixed populations? That way the differences would stand out most clearly, and not be muddled by generations of mixing.
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posted on
12/17/2002 9:52:02 AM PST
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Dan Day
To: joesnuffy
"IF GOD is colorblind....then why did HE make different races?"
If God didn't want the races to stay the homogeneous, why did he not give them the ability to interbreed.
Oh, nevermind!
To: yankeedame
DING
To: joesnuffy
IF GOD is colorblind....then why did HE make different races? He didn't. Just pigments which actually the SUN did that.
To: AppyPappy
Can you see where some of these people are coming from?
"Jesus loves the little children, if their mommy and daddy are the same race."
To: moron
Right, and there is also a whole new (?) area of research having to do with non-genetic proteins that pass on characteristics between generations. Or something like that. I am scientifically illiterate but perhaps somebody here remembers reading about this and can elucidate.
To: Stingray51
I am scientifically literate : Mom married dad.
To: yankeedame
Yes, race has no meaning genetically. This is why black people routinely give birth to white people, why white people routinely give birth to yellow people, and why hispanics routinely give birth to blacks. You see, it's true! Race has no meaning genetically!
And, in further news from the Bolshevik Science Academy, green is really blue, 2+2 actually equals seven, and gravity is a reactionary, racist force that only has an effect on those who don't truly believe in the people's revolution.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled brainwashing, already in progress....
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