Biblical View on the "races" of Mankind

"One could say there is really only one race—the human race. 

The Bible teaches us that God has “made from one blood all nations of men” (Acts 17:26). 

Scripture distinguishes people by tribal or national groupings, not by skin color or physical features. 

Clearly, though, there are groups of people who have certain features (e.g. skin color) in common, which distinguish them from other

groups. We prefer to call these ‘people groups’ rather than ‘races’, to avoid the evolutionary and racist connotations that have become associated with the word ‘race’. 

All peoples can intermarry and produce fertile offspring. 

This shows that the biological differences between the ‘races’ are not great. In fact, the DNA differences are trivial. The DNA of any two people in the world would typically differ by just 0.2%. Of this, only 6% can be linked to racial categories; the rest is ‘within race’ variation.
Consider skin color, for instance. It is easy to think that since people can have ‘yellow’ skin, ‘red’ skin, ‘black’ skin, ‘white’ skin, and ‘brown’ skin, there must be many different skin pigments or

colorings. 

And since different pigments would mean a different genetic recipe, or code, in the hereditary blueprint in each people group, it appears to be a problem. How could all those differences develop within a relatively short time? However, we all have the same pigment in our skin, melanin. This is a dark brownish pigment that we all have in special cells in our skin." 

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