Join Answers in Genesis president Ken Ham and president of Crossroads Bible College Dr Charles Ware as they examine the racist historical roots of evolutionary thought and what the Bible has to say about this disturbing issue. This fascinating book gives a thorough history of the effect of evolution on the history of the United States, including slavery and the civil rights movement, and goes beyond to show the global harvest of death and tragedy which stems from Darwin's controversial theories. You will also learn what the Christian's view of racism should be and what the Bible has to say about it in a compassionate and uniquely compelling perspective.
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Dr Charles Ware is president of Crossroads Bible College in Indianapolis, and the author of several books. He is a brilliant and passionate speaker. He lives in Indiana. Ken Ham is founder and director of Answers in Genesis, the world's largest creation ministry. The ministry's new Creation Museum will open in 2007. Ken lectures around the world and is the author of many books. He and his wife, Mally, make their home in Kentucky.
Ken Ham is the president/CEO and founder of Answers in Genesis - U.S. and the highly acclaimed Creation Museum. Ken Ham is one of the most in-demand Christian speakers in North America.
Ken's emphasis is on the relevance and authority of the book of Genesis and how compromise on Genesis has opened a dangerous door regarding how the culture and church view biblical authority. His Australian accent, keen sense of humor, captivating stories, and exceptional PowerPoint illustrations have made him one of North America's most effective Christian communicators.
After perusing the eight reviews that are posted for this book as of June 20, 2009 I can honestly say that I may be the only reviewer that has read this book.
Ken Ham's point in the book is this (made in this quote by a quite famous evolutionary scientist):
"Biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1859, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory." - Stephen Jay Gould (Ontogeny and Phylogeny - 1977)(p. 15)
That's what Ham is saying.
At no point does he remotely excuse the "Christian" excuses for racism that were common in the 18th and 19th centuries.
At no point does he claim that Darwin invented racism.
He correctly notes that scientists used any number of ways to measure human racial groupings and rank them (head size, brain weight, etc.) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Hitler used those biological arguments to justify his genocides against the Jews, gypsies and everyone else he hated.
In my master's program that I completed two summers ago I saw similar research done to explain low achievement rates by African-Americans in school. Seriously. I think it's junk but it's out there.
Even the co-discoverer of DNA, Dr. James Watson weighs in with a bit of old-fashioned scientific racism: "There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capicities of peoples geographically seperated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so." (October 2007) (p. 55) Search it - I typed in his name and got lots of articles about it.
Science-based racism does exist because of this old line: "Figures don't lie but liars figure." Science generates lots of facts and figures and they can be twisted to say just about anything.
Does that mean all scientists are racists? Certainly not! Ham never claims it.
So, why only the three stars?
Ken Ham and his co-author A. Charles Ware wrote the book in turns - each wrote different chapters. I give the part that Hame wrote 4 stars. It was interesting and I found it to be quite well-written - a lively style with numerous quotes.
The part written by Ware was tedious to me. It was an important topic but full of cutesy lines like needing to move beyond " 'race' relations to the unity of grace relations". (p. 136) He also has lots of lists and constructions like D.R.E.A.M.S. to help you remember how to build a multicultural church (a laudible goal but the text was ... rather bland). I give Dr. Ware's section 2 stars, which makes an average of 3 stars.
November 24th, 1859 is a day that will live in infamy.
On that day a work of so-called scientific literature hit the stands. It was a treatise that is still considered the foundation of evolutionary biology to too many even today. This monument to the "advancement" of science and civilization was titled: "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" by Charles Darwin.
In a day and age when we are speaking of tolerance and equality, this book is still the foundation of scientific anthropology and carries the same weight as any supposed sacred text on the planet.
The fact that Darwin's theory has racist undertones and overtones has absolutely nothing to do with any supposed religious dogma and everything to do with error passing itself off as science.
Folks like the Pygmies or Aborigines and a host of others are the transitions of the theory. The links that are not missing. The inferior races of common ancestry. That my friend is racist.
Some think it's unfair to paint Darwin with a racist paint brush. I beg to differ.
Racism is not applied to Darwinism until he makes racist statements like - "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla."
Or geneticist James Watson - a Darwin disciple
"There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so"
"Darwin's Plantation" is an excellent book. It breaks Darwin's pseudo-science for what it is: Dogma and conjecture which has very little to do with actual reality, especially in the light of the preponderance of actual scientific evidence opposing it today.
Few people know that Charles Darwin's 1859 book "On the Origin of Species" is subtitled "The Preservation of Favored Races and the Struggle for Life." Darwin's later book, "Descent of Man", "popularized the idea of different races of people - lower races, higher races, primitive races, advanced races, and so on." Ken Ham (white) and A. Charles Ware (black) co-author "Darwin's Plantation." Darwin planted seeds that have done more harm to our culture than about anything else I can think of. If you are unsure of the root cause of racism...you really should read this book. Ham and Ware make the point that recent scientific studies of the Gnome prove we all came from one common set of parents. If so, why are there differences in skin color? Why do many Asians have almond shaped eyes? BTW, there is only one race of humans! This book is an easy read with many fascinating illustrations. It will equip you to defend Truth.
