re: #598 ggt

My hubby things that the creationism is rooting in racism. They idea that a person could have “ancestors” of any kind in Afrika was/is horrifying to some people.

Yes. And “Adam” and “Eve” ((Hebrew: אָדָם‎, ʼĀḏām, “dust; man; mankind”) and Eve (Hebrew: Ḥawwā, “living one”) were handsome WASPs as shown in the Creation Museum! LOL!

The very names show that the Genesis account is a poetic story explaining the origins of humankind, not a genealogy with literal names at the root of the family tree. And the pun on adam/adom (man/red earth in Hebrew) shoes that the concept of “whiteness” never entered the heads of the Hebrew writers.