ussion by claiming to seek “neutrality” and religious plurality. But, as is seen in the comments of BBC executives, often the humanist ideas of “political correctness” really mean the promotion of anti-Western, anti-Christian views.
Geologist Bradley Cramer of [The] Ohio State University has used new techniques to determine that rocks from the Niagara Gorge (in Ontario and New York) formed five times more quickly than previously thought—supposedly two million years instead of ten. Of course, this finding doesn’t directly support Genesis, since creationist models of sedimentary rock formation are based on catastrophic principles and differ substantially from uniformitarian ideas. What’s most interesting is the fact that scientists can so suddenly discover their numbers to be so significantly in error. Just last week, ten million years was the “right” number. This week, two million years is the “right” number. Scientists could “discover” tomorrow that they need to change their estimates of the age of the earth by a factor of five (or more!), as well.
This week, Australia’s Courier-Mail reports on “black and white” twin sisters, born in May near Brisbane. One of the girls has dark brown skin and hair, while the other has very light skin and blonde hair. Because of the stark difference in skin and hair color, most would never think of the two as siblings. The twins’ mother is of Jamaican-English heritage, and the father is from Germany. The article also points out that light/dark twins were born last year in Britain as well (it is unclear if a similar story from the AP, released yesterday, refers to the same British twins), though neither represents the first time this has happened.
What does this interesting rarity have to do with the Bible? Sadly, racism has plagued humankind since just after the Tower of Babel. For the same reason that people ostracize those with other so-called abnormalities, human societies have often relegated minorities to second-class individuals, even considering them less than human. The theory of evolution did much to increase this bigotry.
The Bible clearly teaches that we are all of one blood, having all descended from Adam and Eve. Understanding this gives humans a basis for dismantling racism, as does recognizing that “racial” differences represent only 0.012% of the human genome, whereas other types of differences (e.g., height) account for 0.2%. Stories of “mixed twins” remind us of our universal heritage.
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