The founding fathers planted the seeds that would end slavery by declaring that all men are created equal. Darwin’s theory planted the seeds of Social Darwinism, decaring that men are not created, but are at different stages of evolution, and are therefore not equal. Big difference.
According to historic religious theology about race, dark skin was almost universally taken as a mark of sin and as a convenient excuse for enslavement and servitude (Children of Ham, Mark of Cain, Mormonism, etc).
According to scientific reasoning about race, dark skin is an adaptation for equatorial sunlight, and is has no relevance to that persons superiority or inferiority in anything but melanin content.
Moreover, if we are going to go with the ‘there is only genomic degeneration, no gain of information’ paradigm you promote; the original pristine state of humanity would be with the full gamut of working skin pigmentation genes of a BLACK BLACK BLACK person. Any deviation from a fully pigmented skin would be from degeneration of those perfect and pristine pigmentation genes, thus making light skin an example of the degeneration of the perfect genetic state that God intended for humanity.
Care to address this?
Do you think the original humans were black?
Is the prevalence of non working copies of skin pigmentation genes in light skinned people an example of the “genomic degeneration” you like to talk about?