Ken Ham: One Race, One Blood

then tomorrow night I'm actually going to give a presentation how to present the gospel in a secular age and it's very different to what a lot of places are doing churches are doing yet I believe it's very biblical that actually I'll give you a little hint we have this radical idea at Answers in Genesis that we present the gospel the way God does it in the Bible by starting at the beginning radical concept which we'll talk about tomorrow night for those that were here this morning I really laid the foundation on why this topic is important that Genesis is foundational to the rest of the Bible foundational all of our doctrines would but even more than that it is the very word of God itself and when you take ideas like millions years evolution and take them to the scripture and reinterpret Genesis or reinterpret the days or fit the millions years in or say God used evolution you're undermining the authority of the word you're making man the authority instead of God and that is what is unfortunately creating a lot of doubt that leads to unbelief in generations young people two-thirds young people leaving the church for the time there is college age that's why I believe the Lord has raised up ministries like Answers in Genesis for an apologetics ministry we equip people to defend the faith and so I sort of laid that foundation this morning and then tonight and tomorrow night and then tomorrow morning with the young people that will be here in the two sessions we're going to teach you all how to defend the Christian faith and answer some of those questions that we have and to show you how we can be equipped using creation and general biblical apologetics answer in Genesis website about 2.2 million users a month encourage you to go there and use it bookmark it it's phenomenal resource though just show you a little video I showed you some photographs this morning about the Creation Museum I'll show you a little video doesn't have everything in it but gives you a bit of an overview and for those that haven't been there you'll realize you just need to get your car tomorrow morning and head north five and a half hours that's all it takes to get there and you spend a couple of days there but we'll just watch this video the acclaimed Creation Museum and out range of Answers in Genesis is a one-of-a-kind museum filled with animatronic characters interactive videos a spectacular planetarium a special effects theater and many other world-class exhibits since its opening in 2007 the Creation Museum has welcomed millions of guests at its 49 acre location in the Greater Cincinnati area the state-of-the-art 70,000 square foot museum brings the pages of the Bible to life helping answer the skeptical questions that cause people to doubt that the Bible is true the dramatic finale of the museum is the last atom film where guests experience the glory of God's redemptive plan and here a clear and powerful presentation of the Gospel message since the museum's opening we have heard countless testimonies from adults and young people whose lives have been changed through museum visit now discover how it might change your own life for Christ plan your visit a Creation Museum org and prepare to believe so now you all want to come right and if you look up our website actually there's a separate creation museum website as you can see creation museum org during December the month of December we have what's called Christmas town every Friday and Saturday night a spectacular light exhibit in the gardens a live nativity we have other things as well as going on there it's a great time we had 25,000 people come last year to that so if you're coming up and December encourage you to come and and come early because parking gets a little difficult at night time for the Friday nights and Saturday nights in December well the creature museum as I said this morning is really a walk through the Bible it's not just about creation evolution it's a whole walk through the Bible creation corruption catastrophe confusion actually that's Genesis 1 to 11 that's the geological history biological history astronomical history anthropological history that God reveals to us that's foundational to the rest of the Bible and then Christ's cross consummation the gospel based on that history and this morning sort of gave you a little overview of this little overview of creation there's a lot more that we could talk about a course and corruption the entrance of sin and death well tonight Brian's going to concentrate on this see if you like catastrophe we're going to about fossils and the flood but I'm doing this one confusion in fact if you look how those seven seas fit together a perfect creation it'll be perfect again in the future new heavens and new earth sin and death ended the world that's why God's son became a man one of us to dine across be raised from the dead offers a free gift of salvation the flood of Noah's day a judgment for the wickedness of man but a message of salvation is known his family had to go through a door to be saved we need to go through a door Jesus Christ said I am door by Me If any man enter in he'll be saved the Tower of Babel reminds us we're all descendants of Adam and Eve there's only one race but different people groups but that's why we're all sinners and that's why the message of the gospel is for every tribe a nation so it's very very important to understand that you know there are many that have said to me over the years that Oh to get all the different races they call them races of people on a show tonight there are no races of people we talked about that at the moment but to get the different races God must have made a race of men in a race of women or for Cain to get his wife God must have made different races of men and races of women and so on bottom line think about this for a moment the Bible says by one man sin entered the world and death by sin 1 Corinthians 15:45 the first man Adam Eve was to you the mother of all the living scripture makes it clear there was only one man one woman because think about it God's son stepped into history to be the guide man to be a member of the human race it's only descendants of Adam that can be saved I actually wrote that in an article a couple of months ago where I was responding to you know NASA going out looking for all these aliens out there and of course it's all evolutionary driven they're trying to prove that life evolved elsewhere and I said you know even from a perspective of the gospel it does not make sense that there's aliens out there because adamson affected the whole universe one day the whole universe is going to be rolled up like a scroll via new heavens and a new earth it wouldn't make sense that there's other beings out there and think about it God's son became a man a member of the human race remains the god man to be our Savior it's only descendants of Adam that can be saved as I said it in the article he didn't become the god Klingon he became the god man right would you believe that the secularists read that article and then the headlines all over all over the Internet Ken Ham believes aliens are going to hell well it's typical of the way the secular say things distort everything that you say but what I want to say to you tonight it's very important to understand that there is only one man there is only one woman to start with we're all descendants of one man one woman if we're all descendants of one man one woman how many races of people are there there's only one one biologically that's in the book one race one button an african-american pastor dr. Charles where wrote this book one race one blood because we see so much racism out there even in the churches in America so much prejudice we see all sorts of issues even on television right now think of what happened in Missouri recently and that's still ongoing by the way and all the racism and the prejudice the interesting thing is some of the very people that are getting on CNN MSNBC and even Fox News and and you know the railing against people saying you know there's racism in America they create racism by their very words because they're not giving the correct account of the human race by what they're saying they even talk about races but there aren't any races if we're all descendants that I believe there's only one race and actually science has confirmed that well of course people who believe in evolution and believe that ape-like creatures turned into people actually based on Darwin's work the descent of man he actually wrote that some of the people like the Australian Aborigines and certain people from Africa were closer to the Apes than others and even though Darwin himself wasn't a racist nonetheless his ideas fueled racist attitudes and Prejudice you know as Christians I want to challenge us tonight that the Bible really is the Word of God it's a history book that God has given us that let's take that book as the foundation for our thinking and understand a Christian worldview in regard to this issue of racism and Prejudice and races and so on so first of all from a basis of Scripture if we're all descendants of Adam and Eve there's only one race there was only one man and one woman to start with now as I've traveled around the world over the past 35 years one of the most asked questions I get asked is if you believe in Adam and Eve and the Bible says there was Cain and Abel well where to Cain get his wife I've been asked that question five million four hundred and thirty two thousand three hundred and fifty six point seven times in fact I end up talking more about Cain's wife to my own wife is very embarrassing actually and I tell you what until the creation museum was open that used to be the most asked question then once a creation museum was open we found the most asked question was where are the restrooms but before that it was where to can get his wife so the way I answered is this I have a question for you can you marry your relation yes no probably only after counseling now actually the question and the correct answer is only after counseling because everyone should have counseling before they get married back actually can you marry your relation see a lot of people say well you not had to marry your relative you don't marry your relative I Got News for you if you don't marry a relative you know marry a human then you have a really big problem okay when you get married you do marry a relative if we're all descendants of Adam and Eve aren't we all related to each other yeah aren't we just having a great family get-together here this evening absolutely so you think about what scripture says 1 Corinthians 15:45 the first man Adam there's only one man Adam Eve was given that name in the name in the Hebrew at literally age because she was to be the mother of all the living one man one woman Paul in acts 17 talking to the Greek said God made of one blood from one blood or every nation of men to dwell on the face of the earth so it's very obvious from Scripture one man one woman rule of one blood we're all related people say wait a minute the Bible says God made Adam and Eve and they had Cain and Abel and Seth where he can get his wife I remember I was in a restaurant in London actually in England and the chef found out we were doing a Bible conference nearby creation conference and he came and said you believe the Bible I said yeah said I don't believe the Bible I said why not he said well the Bible says that there was God made Adam and Eve and they had Cain and Abel wedding when Cain get his wife from know said ah I said Genesis 5-4 says Adam had sons and daughters he said ah I didn't read that far well that's a problem with a lot of people they don't read that far they read enough in the scripture so if they had sons and or to get rid of all outside ideas or influencers if Adam and Eve had sons and daughters and marriage as we talked about this morning as Jesus in Matthew 19 quoting from Genesis said marriage is to be one man and and woman therefore originally originally brothers had to marry her sisters people say no way wait a minute women but then you got relatives America that's right we are all related see when you get if any of you are married you married your relative right now that means that close relatives married originally was anything wrong with that actually the Lord gets close into marriage didn't come about until the time of Moses Abraham was married to his half-sister that wasn't the problem was until the law of Moses that God said no longer a close relatives to marry and let me explain why why that is so you see when God made Adam and Eve they were perfect their genes were perfect but Adam sinned and because of sin what's been happening God withdrew some of that sustaining power see all things are held together mine for Jesus Christ he holds everything together by the power of his word the Bible tells us that in Colossians 1 but he doesn't hold everything together perfectly anymore and the older you get the more you understand that and see when Adam sinned he withdrew some of that sustaining power so now the whole of creation groans everything's running down because we have to die because death was a penalty for sin and so our bodies run down dies affected the whole universe and now there are mutations mistakes that occur and you get mutations that are that added into the genes and then they get copied to the next generation then additional mistakes and then the next generation and over time there's an accumulation of mistakes until you get to today and we've got so many mistakes in our genes we've amassed all these mistakes is called the genetic flow that I look around the room and I can see them staring at me actually and see here's the problem the problem is today the more closely related you are the more like you have similar snakes if brother and sister were to marry today here's the problem because brother and sister are very closely related they're more likely to inherited similar mistakes from their parents so when sperm fertilizes egg and those mistakes get together there's an increased likelihood of really bad problems deformities and so on in the offspring that's why it's better today to marry someone further away in relationship from you where it's more likely where one has a badging the other has a good gene so the good gene tends to mask the bad G you get the idea to put it from a sort of big picture layman's perspective and so instead of getting and deformed ears we get crooked ones right and if you if you look around the room actually you can see the the effects of those mistakes you know some of you eyes aren't quite you know opposite each other you nose a little out of whack years a little crooked you change it all out away just imagine what would happen if those mistakes were allowed to express themselves we'd all be a mess now as you go back in history the further you go back in history the less of a problem that would be Adam and Eve had no mistakes their children had very few mistakes so provided was one man for one woman what was there was nothing wrong with brother and sister marrying originally fact it's no different no different than a man and woman getting married today except in the closeness of the relationship that's all because we're all descendants of Adam and Eve were all of one family so that's very easy to understand you know I was on a radio program once and this guy calls up and he says you you believe that brothers and sisters married originally he said and told me he was an atheist he said if you believe that that's immoral I said so you're an atheist you can't call me immoral that was the first thing I said to him right and and then I said and what do you believe you believe man is just an animal right you believe man evolved and so therefore right and wrong marriage whatever you define anything your way you want and from your perspective there's no such thing as marriage anyway and then you could defined it with you do have marriage with anyone any what whatever and you think we got the problem you're one of the problems not us see and then there are people who I'd find them in the church they said well the Bible says Cain went out to the Land of Nod and to get his wife Bible does not say that read it carefully says by it came went out to the Land of Nod and knew his wife very strongly implied that he was married before he went to the Land of Nod and then there are people who say wait a minute but then Cain was frightened of all these people surely there must be in other races I mean I've always who would he being frightened of who'd had been frightened of you know when you look at the scripture the time he killed Abel then almost a hundred years there you know it frightened of all these close family members because within a hundred years you could have a lot of people you know populations grow exponentially and so those questions are very easy to answer now we go and people say okay well then how do you get all the different races of people that are different races we're all one race well wait a minute you've got the Australian Aborigines the American Indians the pigeons and Heinz and Eskimos and so on how do we how do we understand all that well to do that we're going to have to do a little basic course in biology now I want to do it from a big-picture basic principle perspective it's much more complicated much more technical in this but you know I I like what Abraham Lincoln said once he said God must love the ordinary person he made so many of them right because really were all ordinary people and it doesn't matter whether you're a PhD but if your PhD in physics you need this from a big picture big principle perspective and so that's what we do and Answers in Genesis to relate to everybody so we go to Genesis 1 and we have this biological statement that God made kinds of animals and plants after his kind after their kind that phrase occurs 10 times what is the word kind mean well we believe that the Hebrew word for kind the word then our scientist because of a lot of research that's been done believed when it comes to the classification system you know the classification system that we use kingdom phylum class order family genus species we believe that in the majority of instances the word kind actually first to the family level of classification not the genus not the species in most instances it's really more like the family level of classification so in other words God made different families for instance God made the dog family he made the cat family now there's different general of dogs different general cats and got different species and so on but what we're saying is that there's one dog kind even you've got lots of different species of dogs one cat kind in fact we have researchers been working right now looking at all the land animal kinds because one of the questions we need to answer with the life-sized noah's ark project is how could Noah fit all the animals on the ark and so to give you an idea what they do so with dogs they look at all the documentation from all around the world that this dog was able to breed with this one this species with this one and this one with this one and this one with this one and even though this one here didn't in breed with this one you can still trace them all the way back connect them all the way back and so they're saying that's a kind and so there can be great variation within a kind but one kind doesn't change into another and so I represent the biological statement in the Bible this way that God created an orchard if you like and so it's called the creation orchard I use this in the Bill Nye debate so there's the dog kind now you can have different species within the dog kind but dogs always remain dogs and finches always remain finches and elephants always remain alle facts you get the idea now for those who believe in evolution like Bill Nye believes in evolution he believes his one tree see we believe there's an orchard he believes there's one tree that all life is related goes back to a common ancestor one kind changes into another actually I want to show you tonight observational science confirms the orchard not the tree because the Bible is correct because it is the true history book of the universe and the way I want to do that I want to work with dogs now the dog family is a diverse force of about thirty four species of dogs you've got all sorts of different sorts of dogs dingoes wolves coyotes jackal offended foxes and so on now here's what the secular world says in the secular world we read this based on genetic morphological and behavioral data it's clear that domestic dogs originated from the wolf so your domestic dog species is part of the dog kind and so even the secularists believe there's something like that actually gave rise to these and even to that now of course that's hard to understand that looks like a dog that does not look like a dog now some people think that that's evolution well I Got News for you that's not evolution because when you correctly understand what's going here going on here it's a downhill process okay involving a loss of information that in fact the poodle has less information than the wolf that's true it's really the end of the line in dogs as I explained to you in a moment once you get to a poodle if you lost any more information it'll be gone there'd be no dogs anymore so let's so let's understand what's happening here we don't know how many dogs God made originally it seemed made two dogs and they got married had kids and they got married had kids and they got married had kids and they got married had kids and end up with your average home school families today now so how how did that come about how did you get your different species of dogs if that happened well in genetics we have a convention where your label genes with letters big a big B big C dominant genes little a little B little C obsessive gene it is much more complicated and technical than this but this this is the big picture we have a PhD in genetics on staff and UC uses the same diagrams I do even though we know it's much more complicated in this and there are millions of genes but these just give you the basic ideas so there's a male in female dog and in sexual reproduction you're one set of genes from the male one from the female and there we have an offspring big a big a big B Big B Big C Big C notice something this offspring here inherited the genes from the male and female but it doesn't have any little age little B's little C's actually it's got less variability really it's got less information than the parents see it's lost the little lays little B's will cease do you see that it's lost that variability and then you get the others here the other combinations I like to represent what we call purebred dogs as little A's little B's little C's you know mean by purebred you know your chihuahuas and your poodles and you know your ons and although see how do we get our purebred what we really mean is we're losing information and concentrating information well here's a dog with a short nose and a dog with a short nose let's breed them together and get rid of all the long-nosed for dogs you get the idea and the trouble is because of sin you're concentrating mutations as well that's why when you look at something like a poodle you think what a beautiful little dog it's a it's a degenerate mutant I mean to be aa Leo you have to call something what it is I mean that's that's the way it is and and and we we might think it looks good but the dot you ask the dog it knows it's got problems and and so hey and here's what we need to teach kids correctly too because I had people who get upset when I talk about this and they say well God made the poodle I've made the poodle Waymon when God made everything he said was very good all right so he didn't make a poodle now indirectly well sort of well actually he made the original dog okay so what is a poodle a correct definition of a poodle it's a sin cursed degenerate mutated copy of the original that's what it is so that's why when people say to me it but is my poodle going to be in heaven with me my answer is is that there's no sin in heaven so that answers that question so that should solve that so let's go on here okay now I know the poodle lovers in America will unite against me but anyway so let's bring the diagram back up and have a look up here if we can there we go so we have all these different combinations here now if you look at this look if this is a poodle if you breed a poodle with a poodle all you're going to end up is what with a little pretty side now could you breed poodles and get back the original dogs answer is no because you don't have all that information there but could you theoretically start with the original dogs and end up with poodles and the answer is yes you get the idea again it's just the basic principles to understand this now this is where it gets mind-blowing how much information is really in our genes you know how many atoms there are in the universe well if you go and count them it's estimated that's how many atoms there are in the universe 10 to the 80th powers a lot of atoms that's an incomprehensible number do you know if you took one man and one woman from this audience do you know how many children it's been estimated you could potentially have without having to with the same combination of information it's that number compared to the number of atoms in the universe people do you realize something God put that potential variability in the dogkind the elephant kind the human kind the Finch can't you start and get the idea Darwin sees little differences like in the finches if big beaks and little beaks and oh wow they use that today in the text this is evolution evolution big beaks little bit what were they features the big big small beaks middle sized beaks what are they finches with big big small big spindle size beef what will they be finches with big beaks middle size being small and that's the best example you can give their evolution in fact in Bill Nyes brand-new book he just came out with called undeniable and we call it deniable his book that he just came out with he's one of the examples for evolution are the finches the finches beaks if that's evolution look around this room you got people with big bigs little bigs medium-sized bags sitting right here now that's not evolution look God put incredible potential for variability in the kinds of animals and plants now two of each kind gets on board Noah's Ark seven of some the two of each two dogs were on Noah's Ark they come off the ark increase in number but they're not going to stay together they're going to split up and as they move away from each other what's going to happen you can end up with different combinations of genes in different groups you're going to get up with different species forming just to help you understand what is termed natural selection what is termed adaptation resulting in supposedly speciation all the rest of it let me show you what's really going on here I want to show you that what students have been taught in the public schools is evidence for evolution is actually evidence against evolution I mean it's as black and white as that so here the dogs got got off Noah's Ark they have an S gene for short hair alpha long here SNL together give you medium hair length in dogs okay so they have an offspring that gets the 2's tree oh look we've got a dog with something new it's got short hair that's new that it's evolving actually you know what's new the combination actually it has less information than the parents that's the opposite of evolution then you have one that has the same information oh look at this one this one has let me go back to it I lost my dog hmm I hate computers they're evil okay except for max max our Christian ma si and we turned this into a Christian Mac we put our logo over the Apple as you can see right there so notice something about that dog oh it's got something you look long here look students it's got something look the ventures that have the bigger big sets evolution actually when you look at that when you look on the inside not the outside you know what happens in the public school textbooks kids are brainwashed and indoctrinated in evolution because they're looking at the outside not the inside when you look at the inside you realize something it's a new combination of information that was already there but it's got less information than the parents even though it's got longer hair you get the idea now what they call natural selection adaptation here's what happens imagine those dogs move towards a cold climate so in a cold climate those that have short hair and medium hair get cold and they die and now all you're left with had dogs with our genes who are on their own only produced dogs with what our genes exactly now imagine there are those that go towards a hot climate in a hot climate those with long hair and medium hair over here and they die and now you're left with dogs with s genes are on their own only produced dogs with s genes so what's new a new combination of already existing information that's less variability than the parents the opposite of evolution so what they call natural selection which is taught in the public school textbooks as part of the mechanism for evolution is actually a downhill process it's a conserving process involving a loss of information maintaining information new combinations of information an opposite process of molecules two main evolution that requires brand new information that never previously existed added into the genome to get some new feature that never potentially was possible before people evolution is impossible doesn't happen and I'm going to talk more about that with the young people in the morning and to show them that information can't come from matter information can only come from information code systems can only come from an intelligence evolution is impossible life from non-life is impossible the laws of nature say it's impossible and yet kids are taught to believe something that's impossible is true I mean it's so sad well over time what happens you end up forming different species of a dogs actually think about it this has happened since the flood which is why you wouldn't expect to find the species today necessarily in the fossil record because they didn't exist then because the species have been formed but the kind would have existed get the idea oh there's lots of implications when you understand all this even the secular world there's research done in California earlier this year and this is a secular paper those published we provide several lines of evidence supporting a single origin for dogs and it's interesting the diagram they give is very similar to the diagram we use because there's all these different species within a kind to help us understand even further you know you have all this information I've represented as a jar of jellybeans say this genetic variability so over time you can get less and less variability til you get to the stage where there's just not that much information left and as you can see there and I absolutely hate cats the half jelly bean creatures if I'd have been on Noah's Ark there be no cats now this helps us answer something you know you know what our researchers are predicting right now our researchers are predicting there's actually less than 1,000 animal kinds land animal I should say land animal clients to go on the ark means just over 2,000 animals the average size of a land animal is not that big actually there was tons of room on the ark and we'll be able to answer that question when people come to the life-size project and so here's what I'm saying to you I'm saying that actually observational science confirms this the orchard not the tree because the Bible is God's Word it is starting to be a Christian Wow the 22 people here excited that's good okay now what I want to do is this I want to apply this to the human kind when we look around the human kind we see distinct differences the Australian Aborigines the American Indians the Fujian the Hawaiians the Eskimos we see distinct differences how could that be what I want you to think about what we did with the dogs and understand this now all humans I consider one species Homo sapiens sapiens same genus species subspecies and so on but yes is then one kind of humans but here's the thing how do you get distinct differences well imagine like the dogs if you were to split up the human population and isolate groups from each other right you could see some distinctive differences depending on what combinations of genes I end up with well is there anything in the Bible anything at all in the Bible that tells us how a human population could be split up does there any event at all the Tower of Babel God gives different languages Genesis 10 the table of Nations and they move off away from each other indistinct people groups separated from each other people that's what happened it's very simple that's why you have flood legends all over the world that are very similar to the Bible have elements similar to the Bible because they've handed them down and changed them but the real record that hasn't changed is in God's Word it's very simple to understand the evidence is glare at us from all over the world now but still there are people even in the church they think oh you know they're different races but they're not different races it's interesting when Darwin wrote his book On the Origin of Species by means of natural selection and the rest of the title says of the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life now certainly when he was talking about races he's talking about you know variation different variations that you see and so on with with animals and and the book the Origin of Species was about animals but right at the end of the book he said this he actually said in the distant future a light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history and so he intended to use what he was talking about the philosophy is talking about in the Origin of Species with men which he did twelve years later when he published the book The Descent of Man and even though Darwin wasn't the racist Darwinian evolution inherently is a racist philosophy and has fueled racism because Darwin taught that there are different races of people and some were closer to the Apes than others in fact the late Stephen Jay Gould of an evolutionist from Harvard University said this biological four arguments for racism may have been common before 1850 but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory Darwinian evolution even though it's not a racist philosophy per se it fueled racism and you can understand why in fact in 1924 New York Tribune newspaper was published then and it had an article that the missing links were found in Australia that were the Australian Aborigines in fact I come from history Australia and I can tell you that the Australian Aborigines were once considered the missing links in fact there were people from scientists from England from Germany who sent people to Australia to hunt down the aboriginals and had instructions on how to skin them in fact that wood heard them over cliffs to kill them or herd them into swamps and kill them for specimens for museums around the world five to ten thousand Aboriginal graves were desecrated in Australia on the name of evolution very sad part of Australia's history fact the reason I even got interest in this particular topic was one of my first science classes in the public school in Australia until back then you know we had the freedom to be able to teach even as Christians about the Bible and so on today it's very much like America unfortunately in the public schools but I was saying to the students that hey we're all descendants of of Noah going back to Adam and we're all one race and so on and some of the Australian Aboriginal kids after the three girls come up to me strongly original girls very dark-skinned and they come up and said Mr ham will you tell us more please and as I spoke to us I realized because they were considered the missing links in history they look down upon by others and they and their I was telling them you're related to all of us we're all equal before God and it meant so much to them I thought I have got to make sure I always tell people about this you know it's interesting that many people don't realize is that at the time of the Scopes trial because many of you know about that happened very close to this area not that far away right there near Bryan College and we have president here this evening - from that area I've got to come and visit there one of these days I want to visit the courthouse saying you have to take me on a tour of that area but that there was our textbook used in the public schools and many people don't realize this one of the main textbooks used in the biology classes in the public school at the very time of the Scopes trial you know was teaching at the present race there exist upon the earth five races Vibe races of humans the highest type of all the Caucasians represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe and America boy that'd be input would not be politically correct to have in the biology textbooks today would it and yet that's what the public school students were taught and you know many of those students most of them probably went to church and is it any wonder we have racism and Prejudice today and particularly in some of the older generations I see in our churches when they were taught that the Caucasians were the highest race based on evolution that's evolution fueling racism it's one of the reasons why I want to challenge people in the church I suggest we don't use the term races see just like I said this morning the term you know when you talk about Bible stories it used to mean history but now the word still remains fable or fiction in most people's minds so I said don't use the word story now talk about the biblical account the record of history the account of history something like that well in a similar way you know at the time of Thomas Jefferson when you talked about races in regard to people you meant the English race or the Irish race you know a different ethnic group but the word races because of the influence of Darwinian evolution has really changed meaning and for many people and they think of races they're thinking of black races white races higher races lower races primitive races advanced race and people because of that influence I suggest let's stop using the term races instead let's talk about people groups you can talk about ethnic groups cultural groups I like the term people groups you know what's interesting here's the thing you still see people getting on Fox News and talking about what's happening in Missouri and so on they're talking about the racism and you know talking about racism present then they're using a term races and the different races and they talk about the black race and the white race they're fueling racism they're the ones that are claiming that they're these races out there and they feel it I think they deliberately know this some of them and they're deliberately feeling racism personally when I hear some of the things they say do you know in the secular world the scientists know there's only one race and have for years in fact it's interesting the journal counseling development 1998 evidence continues to collect the term races meaningless used to point out differences in people that are not definitive in fact when I went to school you know I was taught oh there's the Caucasoid raised the and the negroid race in the australia-wide race and most of us were taught that sort of thing but what have we found out now you know did we ever ask our professors excuse me on what basis did they determine the different races you know in the year 2000 it was announced to the world that the human genome project and by the way the head of one of these projects the main one here dr. van der he was an atheist and they had put together a draft of the entire sequence of the human genome and they are nounce to the world was headlines all over the world is back in the year 2000 here's what they said they unanimously declared there is only one race the human race Wow who would have ever thought of that do you realize they're confirming the Bible confirming the bible using observational science because there you see the headlines in the new york times Bible's history confirmed no but that's what they should have done and you know what's interesting there are many Christians shocked at this really there's only one race if we had of stood on God's Word we would have been out there saying told you instead even many Christians have been influenced by the idea of different races influenced by evolution sad you know there's a lot more that's going on behind the scenes secular journal called Nature Genetics back in 2004 said there's humans very only slightly at the DNA level and only a small proportion of this variation separates continental populations or people groups or this one this is from the American biology teacher 2011 here is the biological problem with race the genetic variation within each of the various ethnic groups of Homo sapiens is greater than that between the various ethnic groups let me explain that using the term races which we not to use and the false idea races but here's the point when they divided humans up into different races they're now finding what they called a race the variation within the supposed race variability within the humans in the suppose a is greater than that between the so called races which is why they said hey you know what this concept of race is meaningless and in fact from France's national center for scientific research again this particular research was published in Nature Genetics but this particular news item said this the genes that explained the phenotypic differences differences like hair color and so on between populations only represent a tiny part of our genome confirming once again that the concept of race from a genetic standpoint has been abolished American biology teacher 2011 all humans are one race Homo sapiens there is absolutely no genetic or evolutionary justification for racial categories of humans that's the secular world saying that based on observational science hasn't got to fox news yet hasn't got to CNN or MSNBC yet now it hasn't got to these people involved in politics yet and they don't want to they don't know about this anyway many of them because they want to create racism is what I see hey people you know what the New York Times in the year 2000 in regard to the human genome project you know they said the criteria that people use for race was quoting professor of molecular genetics in Atlanta actually a criteria that people use for race are based solely on external features we are programmed to recognize I want to suggest you in America people are programmed to look at skin color man is that emphasized even on the TV news black people white people I want to deal with that issue to help us understand something do you know there are no black people and no white people there are no different colors of people actually everyone has the same basic color there's a number of pigments in Bowl but the main pigment is a pigment called melanin actually as a couple of different forms of melanin probably about 50 genes are more involved from what we've been able to ascertain but again let me give you the big picture this pigment melanin is a brown pigment it'd be like going to Lowe's or Home Depot and saying I want to paint my house Brown show me the really dark brown show me the really light brown and show me everywhere in between that's really what it's like and so big a big B mean a lot of melanin little a little B a little bit of melanin and so therefore if you have all big eyes Big B is very dark-skinned what we what people call black but it's not black it's dark brown and then if you have all little A's little B's light-skinned what people call white but it's not white it's like brown look let me say this there are no white people there are no black people now people say to me wait a minute you're a white person oh no I'm not a white person I do want to be a white person here is white I do not want to look like that right now if I look like that you'd be calling 9-1-1 you know if I've got somebody up here that you call black and you put black beside them pure black beside them you realize hmm they're not really they're not black they're actually dark brown you see when you think about it then it's not what color you are it's what shade you are so what shade not color was Adam and Eve skin what shade see I'm challenging us as Christians we need to be the ones leading the way out there and using different terminology to get away from the influences of the past for instance we should talk about shade not color people groups not races you know people often say there's a group of colored people I got news for you everyone in this room is a colored person if you are not you have a problem oh yeah it's true you need the color and everyone's related to everyone else you know we often think they say to people I'm praying for my relatives that's seven billion people that's good I'm glad you're praying for them I mean it makes a big difference when you you know you see somebody you don't like in church and you think to yourself they're my relative it doesn't make a difference or you see someone doing a drug deal on the street and you say they're my relatives and have a burden for them just so I was at a church in Florida it was interesting there was a man came up on stage during the break and why did I finish this so you don't think I'm not getting political this has really happened is but to give a good example come up on stage had very dark skin he come at me looked at me he said so there's no black and there's no white said that's right there's no black people I'm not a black person I said that's right we're all the same color said yet huh I voted for President Obama cuz he was black now you're telling me that was a stupid reason to vote for somebody yep and and I said to the I said to the congregation I talking about what happened in the break and I said you know what you should not boat for somebody quit as Christians we shouldn't vote for somebody because they're Republican or because they're Democrat because they're independent or black or why whoever they are we need to be judging what they believe and teach against the absolute authority of the word of God and then vote accordingly by the way that would change things wouldn't it when that change thing is that you just see we talked about Cain's wife and now under politics see what happens when you take God at His Word in the history here so and then there was another church I was at and there was a man sitting over in the front seat with the pastor and he had and the man and his wife were sitting there and the man had very dark skin and the wife had very light skin you know what people would call that an interracial marriage but wait a minute if there's only one race right there's no end no such thing as interracial marriage biologically no such thing it was really funny because the pastor came to me in the break and he said I was sitting beside this couple said they're very dear couple in the church and he said the man with the dark skin and his wife light-skinned as I said the man turns to the pastor and said this is great I'm just so thrilled to know I'm not married to a white woman so you see there's there's all sorts of things here do you remember when we went to Sunday school and we were taught that course Jesus loves the little children all the children of the world red and yellow black and white all are precious in His sight it's teaching incorrect information to kids you have to change the words in fact I was at one conference and a young girl come up to me she was a homeschool and she said Mr ham I've got some new words for you and I said are okay because I said I got some words for this too and I said let me hear your words first she said Jesus loves the little children all children of the world shades a brown from dark to light all are precious in His sight I thought that is really great shades of brown from dark to light that's really I like that she said what were your words I said well I'm an Australian we didn't have quite the finesse that you know that you do in your voice I said Mike I was trying to make a point so mine would Jesus loves little children all children of the world brown and brown and brown and brown and duck round a middle brown and light brown and all shades of brown and lots of brown anyway I was making the point so I think thinkers flows a little easier so think about this if Adam and Eve had all little A's little B's more light-skinned you realize the whole world would be if Adam and Eve had big eyes and big beasts I see in the whole world would be like that the battle-ax the genetic variability that we see it lacks that genetic variability so it makes much more sense that Adam and Eve were middle brown in the middle you know when we said with the wolf see when God made the dog kind elephant kind et cetera it would make sense that he put maximum variability all this information in the genes that Darwin later on thinks I sees a few little changes and thinks ice evolution which is just representing a tiny little bit of the variability that's possible he did the same with the humankind and so Adam and Eve could have had children who are dark through the light in one generation it's very easy to understand people like their their family like that in this room even today it's very easy to understand and so Adam and Eve's children some of them could have been lighted in the parents some darker than the parents actually back in 2002 National Geographic ardent evolutionist magazine actually had an article a secular article to tell people we're all the same skin color just different shades and they lined up all these children from Washington International primary school from light through to dark and talking about the fact that they're just tremendous variation in skin tone or skin shade that we can see here see this person is more like all the little lays and little bees if she married someone like that all their children would look like that this one's more like all the big eyes and big bees they marry someone like that their children would look like that but in the middle here if these these are more like a mixture of big A's and little A's and B's Big B's and little B's if they married someone like that then the children could look like that all the way through to that you get the idea now it's much more complicated than this because there are genes that are sex linked and so on it depends on who married who and who dies our population and but it gives you the basic principle to understand which is why there are many examples in the world like these are twins from Australia these are twins from England these are from England and they've grown up a bit and there's the latest picture of them or these from over there as well lots of examples of these very easy to understand you know but the kids often with these it's it's one parent who has very dark skin one light skin and so one of the twins gets the genes for not as much melanin as the other one it's very simple to understand and the time of the Tower of Babel God gave different languages so what happens eventually you end up like this some groups will only end up with the big A's and Big B's on their own they'll only produce dark skin people some end up with only the little a's and little bees on their own they're only going to produce the light skin people she wasn't a radio program once and this atheist called up and he says if we're all one race eye he said I want to see two white people having a black baby and I said wait a minute two poodles can't have a wolf you understand what I'm saying right it's the same sort of thing so you're going to understand the genetics of what's going on here see even with eye shape a lot of the differences in eye shape due to the amount of fat in your eyelid that's all it is they're just minor differences which is why in 1998 even on the ABC News reporting on some genetic information they said what the fact shows there are differences among us but they stem from culture not race by the way this is very important for the Christian to understand the major differences are cultural not racial they're cultural and I want to show you that as we think about God's Word here because what a difference it makes when you understand the true history you know what the answer to racism and prejudices in America let's go out there and teach people there's only one race we're all related we're all one family we all go back to Adam and Eve doesn't matter who we are we need to judge what we think and believe against the absolute authority of the world of God that's why we're all sinners and that's why we're all in need of the gospel and there can be some practical applications to imagine when you're at the doctor's office and you have those stupid forms that you fill out that nobody reads and that you have to you have to put it what race are you okay witnessing opportunity you write down Adams someone's going to say to you what's this Adams race oh let me tell you and once you start sharing the gospel with and that's what you do or you know for the census for the federal government you need to for the federal government you need make it a bit more plain and simple just right human but but why shouldn't we do that sort of thing well cause we are there's only one race now if they want it or you cross out the word race and put ethnic group you could do that you see what I mean let's make the point out there let's lead the why is not the church leading the way in regard to this race issue you know why because so many as have been so influenced by the world by evolution by millions of years and races and we don't know what to believe and many pastors have never taught the book of Genesis and people don't understand their history we don't know what to say and so many people out there we don't do anything people we've got the true history book of the universe if we really believe it let's stand on it and lead the way it's my challenge to us now one last thing one one last thing to sum up here and let's be comfortable sometimes I think a lot of Christians would like to say it but like one pastor once said to me yet what you're saying sounds true and makes sense but but what if something comes along in science to show it's not right I said pastor water what a high view of Scripture you hold that's when I just say to myself man I'd like to punch that guy in the nose but I'm not going to do it I I think a lot of things sometimes when people talk to me no okay so now I want to deal with one last issue and make a practical application here and this one see because after I speak on this topic there are people that come up to me and you already know the position here but I want to enhance this a bit more I want elaborate on people come up to me and say so what do you believe about interracial marriage well there's no such thing biologically because according to God's Word there's only one biological race but now I'm going to confuse you're in Tennessee there are two races that's right now are you confused but you said there's only one race that's correct but in Tennessee there's two actually got news for you in Kentucky this to you know hi oh this to act in the whole world there's two races did you know there's two races so you need to ask me what I mean there's only one race biologically do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what Fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness what kind of communities like with darkness which is not talking about light and dark skin but spiritual light and spiritual darkness so people there's two races spiritually see it is a cultural issue a biblical cultural issue if you like Sohni one race biologically two races spirity he asked a question which impending marriage here does God's Word clearly counsel against does he clearly counsel against a to non-christians does he clearly counsel against B or does he clearly counsel against see which one does God's work clearly counsel against see you know that okay see biological fact all humans belong to one race spiritual fact all humans are divided into two races what is the difference between the two spiritual races the direction in which they are racing there's the broad way and there's a narrow way by the way sometimes we think the broad ways here and the narrow ways here that's not correct the Broadway is the world the narrow ways within the world and we're going in the opposite direction the point that I want to make is that the interracial marriage that God's Word speaks against is the marriage between the spiritual races you know what I found there are families in America where the parents are more concerned that their son or daughter does not marry someone from a different biological race when there's no such thing instead of where they are the same spiritual race which is what the issue of marriage is all about what the doctrine of marriage is all about give you a practical example think of rehab rehab the harlot and Jericho a Canaanite presumably a descendant of ham Rahab actually seems to be the Rahab in the lineage leading to Jesus Christ and yet the Israelites were told clearly not to marry the Canaanites how could that be because it would seem from Scripture knowing that Rahab was one who hid the spies and so on she stopped being a Canaanite spiritually and became an Israelite spiritually believing in the true God it wasn't the biological issues as to why they were his rights weren't to marry the Canaanites it was the spiritual issues because there were pagans that's the interracial marriage God speaks against and that's what gets me when I find families who let their son or daughter go with anyone as someone they think is from a different biological race or something instead of saying wait a minute what does the Bible say about this in fact look and I'm not going to do this tonight because I really have time but I've had people come up to me and say but wait a minute don't duck it doesn't don't they say they say this to me this way don't like people come from the cursor:hand put your hand up if you've heard that before by the way there's a number of us and by the way I'm very sensitive that because my name is ham I want you to understand it do you know the first thing I say to people in fact I've had people come call me up on radio and say what about the curse of ham show me in the Bible where it says ham was cursed you know it's not there you know there is no cursor:hand it was canaan who was cursed noah's grandson at him in fact when you look at the descendants of Canaan the people of sodom and gomorrah are some of those wicked people and that would judge because of their sexual immorality and so on it seems it's all to do with the fact that God through Noah and Noah prophesized knew the state of Kanaan's heart that he was in rebellion against God and what would become of his descendants you know what the curse of Canaan is all about fathers don't raise up a Canaan raise your children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord we've got to get rid of these false ideas that permeate the church this idea of the courser ham I can't believe it's so ripe in the church when there's no such thing in the Bible well I'm telling you us when we look at people we tend to look on the outside that's the problem and we tend to think outside differences a major in fact even kids are taught outside difference as a major as a part of their indoctrination and brainwashing into evolution but it's the inside we should be looking at not the outside you know who gives us the example God does remember when he sent Samuel to anoint the king and Samuel didn't know it was going to be David and and you could imagine when Samuel says David's brother oh you know put it in a modern but I kill he's tall handsome he's the football star obviously he's going to be the king then what happened the Lord said to Samuel do not consider his appearance or his height don't consider the outside for I've rejected him the Lord does not look at the things people look at people look at the outward appearance but the Lord looks at the heart in a couple of ways of understanding that think about it the next time you see you could drive down inner city street and Cincinnati close to where we live you could see a drug deal on the street might not be the right time to stop go witness to them he might not have wheels when you come back but you know it doesn't make a difference when you say you know they're my relatives they're probably lost going to a Chrysler's eternity maybe there's an inner city mission I can support help to reach them with the gospel shouldn't we be burden for our relatives someone comes into your church they have a different skin shade not color start getting the terminology right different skin shade you or different different eye shape or whatever imagine imagine the difference when you say how can I help that they're my relative look past the outside I start looking the inside do they need the Lord do I need my help in some way and then think of the practical application in regard to young people you know imagine a young girl a teenage girl and she's a Christian she looks at her and she she looks at a guy and says oh he's tall and he's handsome and he's strong and he's the star at school I'd like to go out with him does she love the Lord does he love the Lord with all his heart and all his sold all his mind that's the most important thing young lady not the outside it's the inside or imagine a guy a Christian guy looking at a girl and he says oh she's so pretty and tall and she's got just the right of melanin and wow I'd like to go out with her does she love the Lord with all our heart and all the so on all our mine that's the most important thing it's not the outside it's the inside you know I when my wife is with me allaha right you know she'll sit there on the front seat and I'll say you know I remember when my wife was 17 and and beautiful and gorgeous and now 40 odd years later she's more beautiful than ever I know the right thing to say you see there's something important here I got a message for the guys the outside changes with time look at the mother and you'll understand what I mean now I'm really in trouble - yeah if you fall in love with the outside you can fall out of love but if you choose to love the inside the person what a difference that makes and I know my wife has changed over time as I have changed over time and we all do and a hair goes gray some of you have falls out and all the rest of it but you know what it's the inside that matters that's the message that's the important message in an interesting we start we talked about poodle genetics Keynes wife get on to talking about politics and marriage and dating see what happens when you take god is word and build a worldview based on real history wow what a difference Ted of having the Bible is some guidebook to life out here and trying to figure out how to understand things what a difference when you understand it's the foundation for our whole worldview well we're going to in a moment not just yet but in a moment we're going to break but before we do let me tell you about some of our resources that we have as I mentioned to our Answers in Genesis website Answers in Genesis org one race one blood deals with I did tonight in much more detail and then we have a series of animated videos actually on this DVD is about six six of them I think and one of them there's one of them on here it's like four minutes long and it does what I did tonight and four minutes in regard to skin shade and and that sort of thing my son-in-law Bodie wrote this book recently tower Babel to show when you look at the names of all the different people groups and you trace them back they will go back to the sons of Noah ham Shem and Japheth the history is all that's very easy to see encourage you to follow us on Facebook and Twitter and so on and then we have here the cream of the crop of our politics resources we have a you choose program and so in the break you'll be able to go into the lobby area here we have their materials and you can put together all sorts of different combinations and at discounted prices my book the lie I mentioned this morning is really a text book of this ministry why it matters why it's important that's what I did this morning and then already gone why young people leaving the church we just did brand new research with America's research group will will publish a part two of already gone next year and it's just mind-boggling to see the state of the church it's just it's so sad to see the state of the church and what's going on and that's going to be very revealing next year but anyway I encourage you to get that and six-day issue the age of the earth issue is one of the major areas of compromise that exists in the church we found and that's why I wrote that book those three is sort of like the three basic text books of our ministry the answers books for the most 130 of the most asked we've been asked over the past 30 odd years and we have detailed answers every teenager through adult even if you're a good reader 10 year old upwards you can understand a lot of that we've had we are critics write to us almost every day and what we have done over the years is on our website we'll take certain of the letters that are written to us criticizing us and then we'll use it to instruct people on how to point out logical fallacies and how to answer people and what they say and how to answer these atheists and others and so my son-in-law Bodhi put together the best of these into a book called confound the critics to teach you how to answer these people we just came out with a new book that I on son-in-law Bodie wrote as well inside the ham note about all the information behind deny ham debate that occurred in February this year 15 million people he has to mate now I've seen that debate at least 15 million people and a lot of personal information a lot of information why I did what I did and every topic that Bill Nye brought up or I mentioned we've actually dealt in detail in the book and we actually have a package where we have the confound the critics book the Bill Nye Ken Ham debate it's four DVDs actually two and a quarter hours long and then the inside the Nye ham debate book and we put them together a special package for you this is the first conference we've actually offered this act because only came in just about a week ago into office we have answers books for kids so that we can train kids with answers these are real questions kids asked and then we answered them there in those books I walk through the Bible for middle school upwards I'm doing this tomorrow with the kids dinosaurs for kids is really for middle school uploads this book as it's even good for younger kids just to teach them from the pictures books for little kids these rhyme book saves for Adam Diaz for dinosaur n is for Noah the rhyme books have all sorts of teacher notes if you want to use them as a curriculum you can beautifully illustrated connect the Bible to the real world very evangelistic and apologetic in nature teaching apologetics even to kindergarten and preschool how do we know the Bible is true we have volumes 1 & 2 teaching you how to answer questions the one race book as I mentioned book on dragons dragon legend just like we have flood legends all over the world there are dragon legends we believe they have a basis in dinosaurs fact Brian will be talking about those tomorrow night in the session and then this new one on the front of NOAA for the whole family could sit down with that as a devotion book and use it for the younger kids but everyone will enjoy it it's a very big illustrator book and then we have a chart of history showing how nations all fit together from going from Adam and Eve to the flood and then all the nations and so on that's 15 foot long and then we have one that's 25 foot long it's much more detail as well and it's amazing to go through that and see how it all fits together in the timeline of Scripture a brand new DVD that just came out is the Bible true how do we know bode is also very Hajj my son was also a speaker with Answers in Genesis he's sort of the same generation as Bryan you know this young these younger generation that are taking our place I guess as we get old and decrepit and we're out which is why I love to see young people here remind and sometimes kids seven and eight year old come up to me and say mr. ham I want to be a speaker like you I want to be a creation scientist that's great because we get old we need the new generation being raised up then we have lots of DVDs out there as well and our answers Bible curriculum you find out information about that you use as a home curriculum a Bible curriculum for church Sunday School Christian school home school it's a whole three-year curriculum through the whole Bible teaching apologetics biblical Authority evangelistic our BBS program for this coming year is on proverbs a book of Proverbs and they become PBS is so popular last year it sold out but thousands of churches are now using Arg BBS because it teaches doctrines Vangelis t'k and teaches apologetics for kids and then the talks that I'm giving here this weekend plus more the basic presentations in this video set 12 30-minute programs with a curriculum that goes with them and the highly discount is normally nearly a hundred dollars back at the office but out here in 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each year subscribe we have a lot of speakers you can invite to your churches your area to speak and also I wanted to show you we have a lot of programs that go on at Answers in Genesis hang on let me get over here this one I want to show you down the bottom of our website you'll see a session that says Danny help and it says careers and if you go to that you'll see where our career opportunities and Answers in Genesis are and be a lot more coming up particularly as the Ark comes online as well and so you never know who the Lord could be leading to be a part of the Answers in Genesis ministry well I'm going to hand over to a pastor Robby we're going to break for 20 minutes in a moment then Brian will come up and at 7:30 and talk on the front and fossils I know the room out there with the books are a small please don't make it an evolutionary sort of survival of the fittest out come out there so

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