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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Then why are there caucasoids, mongoloids and negroids if humans didn't evolve and don't need to change biologically due to their enviroment?
If we wiped out all the cuacasoids, would they cease to be human?
If not, then how can you not include homo erectus for instance in the group of "image of god"
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Now hang on ... I don't recall putting any of those suggestions to you
If you go for a strictly Biblical Creationist point of view, rather than the more general Intelligent Design approach, then the book of Genesis recalls God's command to creatures to reproduce after their kind. A bird is still a bird, whether it's a finch or a sparrow. A human is a human, whether black, white or whatever. Variations within kind are not excluded by Genesis. "Evolution with a little 'e' " is a familiar concept to Creationists.
As for the nature of Homo Erectus - I am struck by the way visual interpretations of 'early hominids' have changed over the past century or so. We have gone from picturing Neanderthals as stumbling, stooping, low-browed man-apes to believing we would not easily spot one if he passed us in the street wearing a suit. And Homo Erectus is to all intents and purposes an anatomically modern man. The differences are in the archeology associated with him, his material culture, not his physiology.
I believe the fossil and archaeological record gives us a range of extinct human races and a range of extinct ape species with no necessary progression from one to the next.