Interracial dating & marriage

[redwing]

Shalom David,

Well, if it makes your clock tick to call yourself "pure-blooded", then have at it. If that is important to your sense of well-being you can tell yourself anything you choose. Your last comment was way off the map, but whatever.

Believe what you like, I was just interjecting the truth, I have no horse in this race and don't really care to argue with you about it.

Shalom David,

Madam, I am confused.

Yes, I see that. Which is why I tried to help you.

If you don't care what I think and no stake in the matter why did you get involved at all?

I responded with all sincerity and care. I thought I was helping you by showing you the truth that you cannot claim that you are 100% "pure-blooded" and why.

However, your reply was such that I know that believing you are a "pure-blood" is somehow very important to you, so I'm not going to bother arguing with you. If that what makes you happy, then whatever. Some people believe what they want to, regardless of the truth stating otherwise. I just wasn't going to continue down that trail and argue it out is all.

And, in fact, this sounds so much like the rhetoric of Nazi Germany, who wanted a "pure-blood" race of people. I find this elitist way of thinking dangerous and detestable personally. But that's my opinion.

I also don't understand what you mean by saying my last comment was way off the map. Please explain.

Your comments about Neanderthals and such are not consistent with Bible thinking, but rather evolutionist thinking which is not consistent with sound Bible doctrine.

[MorningGlory]

eve was from africa?

According to DNA studies, yes. According to the Bible, the Garden was somewhere in modern day Iraq (I believe). But...science and the Bible are getting closer.

[MorningGlory]

Cro Magnons interbred with Neanderthals???????????? OH...I'm...just...going...to....not... Anyway, we are all linked by mitochondrial DNA to one female ancestor in Africa so who are any of us to point at another??

That's the current thinking, yes. It was previously thought that the two sub-species warred and the neanderthals were slaughtered to extinction, but they're thinking now that it's more likely they eventually interbred. Paleontologists go so far as to suggest that ginger haired people exhibit genetic traits from the neanderthals.

See link. It's pretty much accepted now that we, and neanderthalensis, are two distinct species and probably did not interbreed. Well, didn't we already know this?

http://www.americanscientist.org/template/...mp;issueid=7301

[redwing]

Cro Magnons interbred with Neanderthals???????????? OH...I'm...just...going...to....not... Anyway, we are all linked by mitochondrial DNA to one female ancestor in Africa so who are any of us to point at another??

That's the current thinking, yes. It was previously thought that the two sub-species warred and the neanderthals were slaughtered to extinction, but they're thinking now that it's more likely they eventually interbred. Paleontologists go so far as to suggest that ginger haired people exhibit genetic traits from the neanderthals.

See link. It's pretty much accepted now that we, and neanderthalensis, are two distinct species and probably did not interbreed. Well, didn't we already know this?

http://www.americanscientist.org/template/...mp;issueid=7301

[Guest Biblicist]

Cro Magnons interbred with Neanderthals???????????? OH...I'm...just...going...to....not... Anyway, we are all linked by mitochondrial DNA to one female ancestor in Africa so who are any of us to point at another??

That's the current thinking, yes. It was previously thought that the two sub-species warred and the neanderthals were slaughtered to extinction, but they're thinking now that it's more likely they eventually interbred. Paleontologists go so far as to suggest that ginger haired people exhibit genetic traits from the neanderthals.

See link. It's pretty much accepted now that we, and neanderthalensis, are two distinct species and probably did not interbreed. Well, didn't we already know this?

http://www.americanscientist.org/template/...mp;issueid=7301

Where does it cover this information in the Bible?

[David of Derby]

See link. It's pretty much accepted now that we, and neanderthalensis, are two distinct species and probably did not interbreed. Well, didn't we already know this?

http://www.americanscientist.org/template/...mp;issueid=7301

Not very much information there, and I don't see anything that flatly disproves any hybridization between the neanderthals and cro magnon. Still, you'll all just wave Genesis at me and quietly suggest I repent of my heresy, so I'll leave you with the words of Galileo...

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended

us to forgo their use.

[Guest Biblicist]

Anymore, I'm beginning to believe that racism has infiltrated the male/female relationship. Not just different groups of people. Has anyone else noticed that? It's "marrying outside your race" if you marry someone of the opposite gender.

Men are from Mars....Women are from Venus.

[MorningGlory]

Cro Magnons interbred with Neanderthals???????????? OH...I'm...just...going...to....not... Anyway, we are all linked by mitochondrial DNA to one female ancestor in Africa so who are any of us to point at another??

That's the current thinking, yes. It was previously thought that the two sub-species warred and the neanderthals were slaughtered to extinction, but they're thinking now that it's more likely they eventually interbred. Paleontologists go so far as to suggest that ginger haired people exhibit genetic traits from the neanderthals.

See link. It's pretty much accepted now that we, and neanderthalensis, are two distinct species and probably did not interbreed. Well, didn't we already know this?

http://www.americanscientist.org/template/...mp;issueid=7301

Where does it cover this information in the Bible?

Nowhere. I'm merely pointing out that we, created in His image, are not cousins of Neanderthals.

[Guest Biblicist]

Where does it cover this information in the Bible?

Nowhere. I'm merely pointing out that we, created in His image, are not cousins of Neanderthals.

So.....where did the neanderthals come from? Are they another "race" that God created besides Adam and Eve? Either they are human, or animal. There is no in-between. If they are animal. Then marrying them would definately be marrying outside your race!

[MorningGlory]

Where does it cover this information in the Bible?

Nowhere. I'm merely pointing out that we, created in His image, are not cousins of Neanderthals.

So.....where did the neanderthals come from? Are they another "race" that God created besides Adam and Eve? Either they are human, or animal. There is no in-between. If they are animal. Then marrying them would definately be marrying outside your race!

It's my own opinion, and ONLY mine, that Neanderthals and other homanids were here before we were created. Like other primates they were somewhat similiar to modern day humans but they were animals. I believe they were not what the Lord wanted exactly so he tried one more time. We are the result.