Table of Contents
- Does God exist?
(Chapter 1)
- Did God really take six days?
(Chapter 2)
- What about the ‘gap theory’?
(Chapter 3)
- What about carbon dating?
(Chapter 4)
- How can we see distant stars in a young universe?
(Chapter 5)
- How did bad things come about?
(Chapter 6)
- What about arguments for evolution?
(Chapter 7)
- Who was Cain’s wife?
(Chapter 8)
- Were the Nephilim extraterrestrials?
(Chapter 9)
- Was Noah’s Flood global?
(Chapter 10)
- What about continental drift?
(Chapter 11)
- Noah’s Flood-what about all that water?
(Chapter 12)
- How did the animals fit on Noah’s Ark?
(Chapter 13 &
Chapter 14)
- Where are all the human fossils?
(Chapter 15)
- What about the Ice Age?
(Chapter 16)
- How did animals get to Australia?
(Chapter 17)
- How did all the different ‘races’ arise?
(Chapter 18)
- What happened to the dinosaurs?
(Chapter 19)
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Study guide
Creation Answers Book by Dr Don Batten (editor), Dr David Catchpoole, Dr Jonathan Sarfati, and Dr Carl Wieland
Lesson 17
How did all the different ‘races’ arise?
Supplemental materials
Q&A: Racism
Textbook
The Answers Book, Chapter 18
Discussion questions
- What factors determine skin color?
- What is the function of melanin?
- Explain, in your own words, how the characteristics of various people groups have come about.
- Write an essay on how wrong ideas about the origin of people groups have affected the spread of the Gospel.
- How have evolutionary-based ideas provided support for racism?
- Read Genesis 9:18–27. Who received the curse pronounced by Noah? Why did Noah pronounce this curse? Are black people the result of a curse on Ham?
- Read Genesis 4 and list some accomplishments of our pre-Flood ancestors.
- If your family were suddenly cut off from civilization, what types of skills would already be present within your group? What skills would be there if your extended family were included? What would be missing?
- Research present-day ‘cave people’. (See also The amazing cave people of Malta)
See Interracial marriage: Is it Biblical? for help with the following section on 'interracial' marriage:
- What was God’s purpose in scattering the people who were building the Tower of Babel?
- What was the mechanism God used to disperse the people?
- What is the Biblical basis and purpose for marriage?
- What are the Biblical requirements for a Christian’s potential marriage partner?
- List some Biblical examples of so-called ‘interracial marriages’ and explain the significance of them.
- Explain true ‘interracial marriage’.
Additional Resources
One Blood - The Genesis Answer (Book)
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