Is evolution racist? because I was reading about it and I think it is.?
Because you know what isn't racist, Creationism.
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"Is evolution racist?"
Is gravity?
People can be racist, scientific theories cannot. Doesn't work that way.
"because I was reading about it and I think it is.?"
Is this a statement of fact or a question? Don't you know if you think it is or is not? You seem quite confused both about your opinion and basic mechanics of the English language.
"Because according to evolution the different races are different forms of natural selection and some races are superior and more "fit" than others."
It says nothing of the kind. It says that some people are more well adapted to their environment. It says nothing about them being "superior" or "more fit" in the context that you're implying it does. There is no universal gold standard of humanity and anything that doesn't measure up to it is "inferior".
"Because you know what isn't racist, Creationism."
Creationism is bullshit; just like racism.
Actually, slavery in antiquity was *not* a racially-motivated institution. Moreover, slaves could eventually make their way into full citizenship, at least in Greece and Rome. Modern slavery was very different - a value judgment on skin color instead of a solution to various socioeconomic problems (however repugnant said solution may be to us today).
Does it matter to whether or not it's true? because I was reading about it and I don't think it does.
Far too many people think the pick-and-choose approach they apply to their Bible can be carried on to science. It can't. It doesn't matter if something's racist, tragic, offensive, unjust or brutal. If it's true, it's true.
I found the tsunami deeply tragic - it still happened.
See how it works?
Ever heard of a charming book called "The Negro: A Beast", by Charles Carroll? Puts forward the argument that, since black people can't be descended from Adam and Eve, then they must have been amongst the beasts of Eden. The author claims that anyone who believes that black people are even human must be a goshdurned liberal atheist.
The same reasoning was used during the segegation era to denounce interacial marriage on religious grounds (as the Bible condemns bestiality).
So, there's ya non-racist creationism. Any comments, Dillan?
[Is evolution racist? because I was reading about it and I think it is.?]
Well, then you'd be wrong. This argument has long since been debunked.
What exactly were you reading?
[Because according to evolution the different races are different forms of natural selection...]
Where does the ToE say this?
[...and some races are superior and more "fit" than others.]
Different races tend to be better adapted to their particular environments. What's so hard to understand about that?
[Because you know what isn't racist, Creationism.]
Wanna know what else it isn't?
It is irrelevant whether the ToE is socially unpleasant or not. I don't believe it is racist, however, that being how some perceive it, doesn't change it's truth.
Adapted to the enviornment they live in. A tiger is adapted to live in a jungle, but a snow leopard is adapted to live in the snow. Put the snow leopard in the jungle and the tiger in the snow...well then they won't hunt as well. Does not make one inferior to the other, just different. In the end, they are still cats.
Put a white man in the middle of the Sahara and a black man in the middle of the Antarctic and we'll see which is the 'superior' race according to evolution.
If creationism isn't racist why did god only create black people as a curse against white people?
It means that some races are better suited to live in their enviroment than others. Like the far north of Alaska, or deep in the rainforest.
[Because you know what isn't racist, Creationism. ]
When the Lord has pity on Jacob and again chooses Israel and settles them on their own soil, the aliens will join them and be counted with the house of Jacob. The house of Israel will take them and bring them along to its place, and possess them as male and female slaves on the Lord's soil, making captives of its captors and ruling over its oppressors. (Isaiah 14:1-2 NAB)
Last time I checked, slavery was racist.
"Is evolution racist? because I was reading about it and I think it is.?"
"Because according to evolution the different races are different forms of natural selection and some races are superior and more "fit" than others."
"Because you know what isn't racist, Creationism."
There is an arguement that rascism was 'invented' in order to justify the slavery that created the wealth of the U.S.A.
What about Ham and his children. I thought they were cursed by god hence the extra melanin.
Also whatever your race, everyone is the same species - Homo Sapiens Sapiens
Evolution doesn't work that way. Fitness is not an indicator of which species is better, but only which is best adapted to its current niche. For example, is a golden eagle better than a tiger shark? The question doesn't even make sense.
Regardless, since people of all different races are the same species, human, it doesn't make sense to discriminate against them.
And even if evolutionary theory was inherently racist, it wouldn't mean it was incorrect as an explanation for the origin of life's diversity, just unpleasant.
Well, white Americans are more likely than anyone else to be heavy so I guess gravity must be racist too.
Here's a question for you: were Adam & Eve black or white?
Depends on where you live fuckstick.
Black people are better suited to a hotter climate. They have many adaptations that radiate heat and keep them cooler and their dark skin is less susceptible to severe sun burns.
Likewise, in a cold climate, their heat radiating adaptations are a liability and their darker skin is unnecessary.
Many other differences just happened to be the preference of mates in those areas.
Some races are more adapted to one environment, other races are more adapted to another environment. We pale-skinned people are adapted to live in the northern and southern areas of the Earth, where there is little sun exposure. More dark-skinned people are adapted to live near the equator, where there is lots and lots and lots of sun.
See, we are all superior in our own environment. Nowadays, when we move around so much, we will probably all be more and more medium-skinned over the centuries.
Oh no, Creationism isn't racist, not at all!!! None of you profess or believe that Jesus was a tall, blond, blue-eyed Nordic-type fella. You are all perfectly aware that he was Jewish, that Adam and Eve and Moses and Saul and Abraham and all the other guys from the Bible were Jewish, and you have absolutely no problem with that, as Jews are just like you, right? Right?
You lot are continually trying to blame secularism, man-based laws, cultures, Darwin or Atheists for racism. But the facts are in, the dictates of Christianity (many religions) are what's created the great divide over history and still promotes this hatred today. I'm not even saying all Christians are racist, the moderates promote all men as equal, but you fundies, you literalists are hate filled racists.
What did Adam and Eve look like according to you lot. White folk, and when one of their sons killed the other you people called Cain black forevermore.
Don't pretend a lot of you don't hate other races due to your religion, you-tubes full of preachers pushing this hate to this day. The KKKs a Christian organization as are a lot a racist militias and communes, locking their people and children away in remote gaurded areas preparing for the final conflict. Afraid of everything that's a little different.
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