"Frank Dresser" wrote in message
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"Al Patrick" wrote in message
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Back to the subject: If God created the races, as most of us can
probably agree that He did, what was the purpose? Would this make God
racist? ;-)

Well, I can only repeat what my favorite source of Racial Special
Knowledge,
George W. Gentry, says.

Gentry says all people used to be black. Or, as he puts it, "Charcoal
Black". Other races were created from their progenitator's bad behavior.
Easu was the father of the red races -- "Easu Red". The white race was
created after Gehazi and all his decendents were stricken white with
leprosy -- "Leprosy White".




Think about it. God made the races. He made them different for a
reason.


As I understand, there's a competing theory which essentially says that
the
climate of Africa favors dark skinned people, and the climate of Northern
Europe favors light skinned people. I can't offer much more on this idea,
since such kookthought rarely makes it to shortwave radio.

If I may, I'm pretty sure that I'm familiar with what you're talking about.
In this case, it's not kookthought. Here's a link for you from PBS, with a
few quotes simply because I loathe blind links, and don't want to cut and
paste the entire article:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/li.../l_073_04.html


"Their findings, published in a recent issue of the Journal of Human
Evolution, show a strong, somewhat predictable correlation between skin
color and the strength of sunlight across the globe. But they also show a
deeper, more surprising process at work: Skin color, they say, is largely a
matter of vitamins."

"An hour of intense sunlight, the study showed, is enough to cut folate
levels in half if your skin is light."

"As far back as the 1960s, the biochemist W. Farnsworth Loomis had suggested
that skin color is determined by the body's need for vitamin D. The vitamin
helps the body absorb calcium and deposit it in bones, an essential
function, particularly in fast-growing embryos. (The need for vitamin D
during pregnancy may explain why women around the globe tend to have lighter
skin than men.) Unlike folate, vitamin D depends on ultraviolet light for
its production in the body. Loomis believed that people who live in the
north, where daylight is weakest, evolved fair skin to help absorb more
ultraviolet light and that people in the tropics evolved dark skin to block
the light, keeping the body from overdosing on vitamin D, which can be toxic
at high concentrations."

"Three years ago, Jablonski and Chaplin took the spectrometer's global
ultraviolet measurements and compared them with published data on skin color
in indigenous populations from more than 50 countries. To their delight,
there was an unmistakable correlation: The weaker the ultraviolet light, the
fairer the skin. Jablonski went on to show that people living above 50
degrees latitude have the highest risk of vitamin D deficiency. "This was
one of the last barriers in the history of human settlement," Jablonski
says. "Only after humans learned fishing, and therefore had access to food
rich in vitamin D, could they settle these regions."


There's plenty more on the web about it, for anyone who cares to search and
decide for themselves. I don't want to get too involved in an off-topic
thread, personally. I'm just trying to help fill in some gaps. And of
course, if anyone would rather believe that black skinned people are black
skinned because they're the descendants of Ham and his curse,
well...-that's- kookthought IMNSHO.