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New Twist On Out-Of-Africa Theory
ABC Science News ^ | 7-14-2004 | Judy Skatssoon

Posted on 07/14/2004 8:53:47 AM PDT by blam

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To: Wonder Warthog
Once again, political correctness corrupts science. Race is unquestionably based on genetics

The differences we create in terms of race are purely man-made. Do we consider brown horses as a different "race" than spotted horses? The horses certainly see no difference.

21 posted on 07/14/2004 9:31:10 AM PDT by Modernman ("I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members" -Groucho Marx)
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To: PatrickHenry

Thanks for the ping!


22 posted on 07/14/2004 9:37:25 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Wonder Warthog
Once again, political correctness corrupts science. Race is unquestionably based on genetics.

Hair color and eye color are also genetic. But we don't separate brunettes, blondes and red-heads into separate "races". But we do separate on the basis of how flat noses are, round eyes are and by skin color.

23 posted on 07/14/2004 9:42:20 AM PDT by megatherium
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To: Conspiracy Guy

AMT,Astra,Browning,Colt........Savage,Tikka, Winchester..I like being literate and collect the "alphabet"...


24 posted on 07/14/2004 9:43:27 AM PDT by litehaus
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To: megatherium

What would a sloth know about race?


25 posted on 07/14/2004 9:44:39 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Kerry has a Carter Plan. Bush has a Reagan Plan. You choose which is your plan.)
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To: litehaus

Browning A-Bolt 270 Composite Stock with Leupold Goldring 3X10 50mm Objective lens scope. Is my favorite hunting rifle. Got a lot of stuff in between the Browning and the Ruger.


26 posted on 07/14/2004 9:50:58 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Kerry has a Carter Plan. Bush has a Reagan Plan. You choose which is your plan.)
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To: NJ_gent

i agree with you, how can race (used scientifically) be disgarded. bone structures are easily identifiable, seems to me to be just more drivel from pseudo-intellectuals.


27 posted on 07/14/2004 10:00:59 AM PDT by Docbarleypop (Navy Doc)
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To: cyborg
Race IS a cultural phenomenon. Race is all about politics.

That is a difficult truth to tell - Post of the Day nominee!

28 posted on 07/14/2004 10:04:29 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: blam

So they moved into another area, and outbred the local population into extinction? Sounds like what Africans, Mexicans, and Muslims are doing today to Europe and America. Interesting.


29 posted on 07/14/2004 10:04:50 AM PDT by Teacher317
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To: blam

Many scholars of the Bible think there are at least two creations of man, the sixth day man, made from gray dust, told to hunt, gather, and have dominion, and the creation of "Adam" sometime after the Sabbath rest, whose name means "red earth", able to blush, whose different command from God was to farm or till the earth.

They feel that in relating the story of Adam and the Garden of Eden, God is not rehashing events from the sixth day, but has moved on to a time past the seventh day. Adam is addressed, by God as an individual, not as "them". When Adams son, Cain, slew his brother, he fled to the surrounding towns inhabited by the sixth day creation of man.

It makes sense and answers questions about how Cain could flee to an inhabited town and marry into that community, when the number of children of Adam and Eve are to that point, only two.

I have noticed that at the end of knowledge, as more is known, the findings always come to conform with the Bible, as with the new knowledge that living things are a result of several spontaneous appearances of several different species, as opposed to all developing from the same single cell organism as was promoted by evolution.

Genesis 6, even relates an attempt by Satan to pollute the human bloodline that Christ would be born in the flesh through, by the marriage of human women to supernatural angels.
Some attempt to say that the "sons of God" were the elite of the community, but that does not jive with all the other references to the "son's of God" in the Old Testament.

So there is still alot to be learned in my opinion.


30 posted on 07/14/2004 10:23:59 AM PDT by MissAmericanPie
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To: Conspiracy Guy

'Fraid not. Total addict to sugar and caffine (best administed using Mountain Dew...).


31 posted on 07/14/2004 10:50:28 AM PDT by Little Ray (John Ffing sKerry: Just a gigolo!)
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To: blam
"We really have to abandon the idea of race. It actually does not reflect the genetic differences we can now measure in an objective fashion."

This guy's out of date. Genes for racial characteristics have already been identified.

32 posted on 07/14/2004 10:58:49 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: blam

I should've said that he was probably quoted out of context.


33 posted on 07/14/2004 11:00:58 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Little Ray

Not a sugar consumer myself. We must be from different caves. Good to know you anyway.


34 posted on 07/14/2004 11:03:02 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Kerry has a Carter Plan. Bush has a Reagan Plan. You choose which is your plan.)
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To: megatherium

That's because skin color breeds true. Eye color doesn't.


35 posted on 07/14/2004 11:03:52 AM PDT by frgoff
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To: Modernman

With horses, dogs, cats, etc. we call them breeds because their offspring maintain those characteristics.

So, we actually do have various "races" of horses, some highly prized, such as the Arabian and Morgan.


36 posted on 07/14/2004 11:05:34 AM PDT by frgoff
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To: headsonpikes

Tell the black man who has sickle cell anemia that the 20 times greater risk he had of getting the disease was just a political construct.

Tell the Jewish couple whose child has Tay-Sacks the fact the disease only occurs in Jews is a political construct.


37 posted on 07/14/2004 11:08:03 AM PDT by frgoff
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To: Docbarleypop
i agree with you, how can race (used scientifically) be disgarded

Race, AFAIK, is not used scientifically, at least not by biologists. Race is only relevant because culture and politics have made it relevant.

bone structures are easily identifiable

Good luck determining someone's race by looking at their skeleton.

38 posted on 07/14/2004 11:08:46 AM PDT by Modernman ("I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members" -Groucho Marx)
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To: MissAmericanPie

What a bizarre interpretation of scripture.


39 posted on 07/14/2004 11:09:18 AM PDT by frgoff
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To: Conspiracy Guy
I am full blooded Neanderthal.

Does a single tear appear on your face when you see a car drive by that was littering?

40 posted on 07/14/2004 11:10:33 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
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