re: How do you explain the origin of the various human races scientifically?

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science and religion have been battling each other for centuries

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Science and religion do not battle each other, each have completely separate objectives. Anyone who thinks that science precludes faith is just as foolish as someone who thinks that faith precludes science.

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God could've created more people, or people period after the split.

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Oh good god

You do realize that the closest thing to a human was a 3 lb vole when pangea split. don't you?

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I don't believe the earth is millions of years old, but thousands. Call me ignorant if you want, but that's what I believe.

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oh good grief.

This is as willfully ignorant as I can imagine. This is the kind of abysmal ignorance that gives Islamists their confidence in lopping off the heads of infidels.

There is no reason at all to pit the Bible against scientific discovery. The Bible was written by men who were as skilled as anyone in their era but were understandably ignorant of the great geologic and environmental cataclysms the earth has experienced.

You do not have that 'understandable' ignorance - you are being willfully ignorant of absolute facts.

The Bible was/is a fantastic history written by extremely intelligent and dedicated men who were more interested in the moral evolution of mankind than they were the factual geologic and genetic movements about which no knowledge existed then, or for the next 6000 years.

We are only now beginning to glimpse into the complexities of those movements. The Bible is remarkably accurate in terms of places and events - but again that was not the purpose of the men who wrote the passages. They were relating events to their belief in how their God interacted with the morals of the population - and much of it was written with an allegorical methodology rather than a scientific methodology.

You can believe in the moral aspects of the Bible and be comfortable with the advance of scientific discovery at the same time - they are NOT at war with one another.

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cience and religion do not battle each other, each have completely separate objectives. Anyone who thinks that science precludes faith is just as foolish as someone who thinks that faith precludes science.

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How true - almost every rational human believes this.

it is only the idiots and fanatics from the opposing sides who keep the 'conflict' alive. Those who continually poke fun of the Bible are as arrogantly, and pathetically, ignorant as those who claim the 6000 year old earth.

I enter these threads to make exactly the same point you have stated so eloquently.

and now I bow out.

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The Bible was/is a fantastic history written by extremely intelligent and dedicated men who were more interested in the moral evolution of mankind than they were the factual geologic and genetic movements about which no knowledge existed then, or for the next 6000 years.

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The Bible doesn't say that the Earth is 6,000 years old. Some people have inferred it be that age by calculating the ages of Adam's decedents. The vast majority of Christians do not believe this to be the case, but those zealots and atheists go at each other over it. Neither side see the ridiculousness of the debate.

My theory:

Homo sapiens started in Africa and began migrating out to different environments. Natural selection began to take place over many years, leading to different expression of traits that were most likely to succeed.

In colder environments, humans had to find shelter and form larger social networks different from clans. This led to skill differentiation and primitive agriculture.

So my theory is that migration and the encountering of different environments forced natural selection in humans...

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This thread is great. I love how humans try to explain God and other things that humans are not meant to understand. We are an obsessed species at trying to "factualize" information.

(if we can't prove it, it must not be real)

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Well, Newton also had this line of thought about certain scientific principles that we now know of today. When he couldn't figure it out, he just said it had to be divine in origin. Turns out he was wrong about many of those, so why shouldn't we assume that everything will eventually be scientifically explainable? Should we just denounce everything that we don't understand as divine and really just march straight back into the cave? Seems with your line of thought, we never would have left the cave and challenged ourselves as a species.

Young earth creationists LOL.

If only they realized that the earth is such a small part of the universe that it could be approximated as not even existing. The intelligence of humans makes them come up with some crazy shite.

so much of that post is confusing

race =/= species...same species with different physical characteristics that is a byproduct of natural selection.

evolution doesn't attempt to do anything...adapt to survive, it's that simple. More often than not species die...is evolution attempting to exterminate species? no.