Darwinism (or Evolution Theory) is the religion of Racism.
Introduction
A. Racism is based on the imagined sin of inter-racial marriage... or marriage with someone of an inferior race.
1. Before Darwin published "On the origin of species b means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life."
2. Previously, "races" was used of peoples of different nations or cultures. The English race or the Irish race...
I. Darwinism is inherently racist.
A. False Science
1. Stephen Jay Gould, "Biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1859, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory."
2. Australian Aborigines were considered the ape-like ancestors of the rest of mankind.
3. African pygmy was displayed, along with an orangutan, in a cage in the Bronx Zoo. His name was Ota Benga. That was in New York City, USA!
4. Congo pygmies once thought to be small ape-like, elfish creatures that exhibit many ape-like features in their bodies. (Many Dutch and English settlers married pygmies and had children who in turn were not infertile.)
5. Modern science now recognizes that there is biologically only ONE RACE of humans.
6. Most hideous example of contrived racism was the Nazism of WWII.
a. Six million Jews were murdered, men, women, children, aged and infirm, starved, gassed, burned, and buried in mass graves of tens of thousands.
b. Tyranny spread out over groups of political dissidents, groups of gypsies, groups of physically handicapped, any and every group that did not conform to the so-called features of the Aryan Race. It was a contrived justification for ethnic cleansing, racial rehabilitation, social reformation.
7. The same false science gave us the governments of the Marxism and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat which led to the deaths of no less than 100 million men, women, and children of the 20th Century. They died again of starvation, in the Gulag Archipelago, the KGB or Gestapo or whatever term was used in the Communist-type totalitarian governments.
8. Mapping the human genome, genetic material, there is only one race.
The Word "race" should be abandoned.
B. Bible teaching about the races.
1. Acts 17:26 One blood, all human beings.
2. 1 Cor 15:45 All descendants are of one man, Adam, who was created in the image of God, Genesis 1:26-27.
3. Policy on slavery
a. Old Testament moderated a current practice. Slavery had developed out of the borrowing of money and the dilemma of what to do with the prisoners of war.
-- Job 31:13-15 illustrates the OT attitude of a righteous man toward his servants.
b. New Testament did not demand liberation of slaves, but the teachings of Philemon and Colossians caused many to free their slaves beginning in the second century.
c. Most ardent abolitionists of the 1800's were Bible believing. The pulpits rang out condemnation of the evils of slavery. Major cause of the Civil War of the mid 1800's.
-- Remember John Newton's Amazing Grace. And Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
C. "Racial" differences
1. Skin tones and eye/nose patterns are arbitrarily chosen as criteria.
2. There is more variation WITHIN races than BETWEEN races.
a. So-called racial differences are trivial, shallow excuses to build walls between groups.
b. Tissue and blood type matches cross racial lines.
D. Origins of People Groups
1. Human population was reduced 8 with Noah.
2. Genesis 11, the Tower of Babel: languages dispersed men into groups according to their languages, in order to scatter men on the face of the earth.
3. Language and Geography caused unique cultures and isolated gene pools, certain features became dominant in each group.
E. Issue of Marriage
1. The purpose of the Bible prohibition against marriage to the Gentiles as repeated in Malachi 2:15: God seeks godly offspring!
a. Deut 7:3-4 because they will turn your hearts after their gods.
b. Joshua 23:6-13 don't mix with them in their idolatry
2. The issue was always spiritual. Genealogies were kept to fulfill the prophesies and laws concerning the priesthood and the royal seed of David, ancestor of the Messiah-Christ. Purpose was not primarily carnal or anti-group. God was more concerned about them marrying someone who is a faithful servant of God than what skin shade or cultural background.
a. The choice has always been between choosing a virtuous mate as opposed to choosing a fornicator. Moral depravity is a greater threat to marriage and the future offspring than the social status of the prospective mate.
b. Marriage to a profane person or an apostate has far greater consequences to the future peace and stability of a Christian that the supposed genetic purity or pedigree of the bloodline or the proposed companion.
3. Raising of children in the Lord requires parents who will both follow the Bible mandates.
-- Isa 38:19 make known God's Truth to the children
-- Eph 6:4 raise them up in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord
-- Gen 18:19 Abraham will command his children that they keep the way of the Lord.
4. Among the ancestors in the genealogies of Jesus are the names of three Gentile women: Tamar, Rahab and Ruth.
a. Rahab and Tamar were actually of the Canaanite race of the "cursed" Ham. (which of course never was a reference to skin color.
-- Judah said of Tamar, "She is more righteous than I..." Genesis 38:26
-- Boaz said to Ruth, "May you be blessed by the Lord, my daughter, You have made this last kindness greater than the first..." Ruth 3:10
-- Rahab is honored as a woman of faith, justified by works in James 2:25
b. All three marriages were approved by God and specially honored in the genealogies of Jesus of Matthew 1.