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Title: One Blood: The Biblical Answer to Racism by Ken Ham, Carl Wieland, Don Batten ISBN: 0-89051-276-0 Publisher: Master Books Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Not so sound 'Tower of Babel' reasoning...
Comment: First and foremost, I most note that I'm both a Christian and a Creationist. On the same token, I'm not a very big fan of creationist Ken Ham. Too me he sets creationism back, because frankly his books are juvenile, written on an eighth-grade level and not very thorough scholarship. Not surprisingly, he has become the token creationist whipping boy who evolutionists love to beat up on, frankly because his logic isn't always so sound. He does raise important issues for Christians like if they take the Scriptures seriously and believe them to be God-breathed than they must take seriously its teachings on creation. Anyhow, his reasoning and facts are often erroneously. I think other books such as Darwin's Black Box and Tornado in a Junkyard, for example, do a much better job at refuting Darwinism than any of Ham's screeds. Some might not like my brutal honesty, but Creationist apologists need to have higher standards and insist on sound Scriptural reasoning. Ham engages in personal attacks (ad hominem) on those who don't agree pretty much with most everything he espouses hook line and sinker. Ken Ham also has two standards of Bible reading: he condemns those guilty of 'blatant eisegesis, i.e. reading a doctrine into the text rather out of it,' yet he is no less apt to make fanciful conjectures of his own. These errors are quite numerous too. Ham invests a great deal of energy throwing out red herrings to quell dissent in debates; he pits a lot of his arguments against racism by critiquing the claims of an obscure racist sect known as Christian Identity. Thus, he makes his modus operandi for debate readily apparent by stigmatizing everyone who disagrees with him and lumping them in with a pithy number of charlatans. Thus, he distorts and misrepresents those who disagree with him. In his efforts to indict Darwinism as racist, he doesn't really address that most modern evolutionists have their egalitarian camps lead by Stephen Jay Gould and Montagu instead of crude Social Darwinists, because it takes away from the polemic value of his arguments. (Granted, evolutionists are hard pressed to logically explain how we all evolved equally given the logic of evolution.)
Perhaps the biggest problem with Ken Ham's book, which draws its' title from one Bible passage-namely Acts 17:26-is that the author feels a compulsion to quote and exegete the verse only partially. Why is that? It seems that if he quoted it in whole, it might undermine his thesis, his proposed solution to racism, and his claims that race is a totally imaginary construct. The part he misses is that God has determined their [the nations or races] preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings. Hence the fact that God ordained nations and their distinctive cultures. So why must we question God's handiwork and seek dissolution of the nations? Ken Ham's purported solution to racism doesn't stem from rigorous exegetical reading of the Bible nor emphasis that we're all one in the body of Christ, but rather by myth-making and saying that there is really no such thing as race. I had the opportunity to hear him speak at my Christian undergrad institution, Liberty, before graduating. Implicit in his book and perhaps explicit in his speeches is the idea that race-mixing on a grand scale is desirable and the cure-all to end racism. His cohorts and followers preach this message fervently. This is a lot of naive well-wishing.
How can Christians who are cognizant of the nature of humanity's sinful nature seriously expect some universalist utopian scheme will whimsically wipe away hatred from the world simply by melding the races into an amalgam? Avowed Christians need not embrace sort of kooky utopianism reminiscent of the radical egalitarian philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the French Revolution. Ham somehow sees efforts to implement his utopian dissolve the races scheme as somehow hastening the kingdom. I'm not on board for the return to Ken Ham's primordial Eden. Ham focuses too much on the here and now. Ham seems apt to 'immanentize the Christian eschaton,' in the words of political theorist Eric Voegelin, which simply means he seeks the establishment the kingdom of God on earth to be accomplished by future realization of his raceless utopian ideas. Also, this politically correct book tars and feathers whites as if they are the ones culpable for the all the evil racism in the world. Quite frankly, I'm kind of tired of people promoting the dissolution of my Caucasian genotype (or any genotype for that matter) as the cure all to end racism. Racism apparently has many facets, including those that hate the concept of race itself and seek its dissolution. It will not change humanity's sinful nature.
Rating: 4
Summary: Well Packaged
Comment: This book covers all the bases as far as a biblical view of race and creation and its misuse over the years in evolutionary thinking. To sum up there is only one race, the human race, and that is what the bible says and the evidence shows.
The book goes into science and genetics, but not enough for my tastes. Nevertheless, the science that is present does make a strong case. It also reaffirms the scientific nature of creationism and that creationists fully embrace that adaptation occurs within species. Both of these ideas are largely hidden from the general public.
There is an interesting chapter on a pygmy being put on display in the Bronx zoo -- a part of history I was unaware of and am surprised has been so well hidden. It does not get into a history of racism showing how Christianity abolished slavery in the Roman empire or was on the forefront in an almost militant form against slavery in our own nation. There are other books for that. If you want to know what the bible says on race, how the evidence supports the bible, and what has happened since evolution was proposed in the 1800's, then this book will touch on those issues.
Rating: 1
Summary: over-rated
Comment: I bought this book because it was recommended based on other books I had bought. I am interested in how the Christian church responds to issues of slavery and racism. Given the nature of the Gospel, Christians, I believe, are obligated to understand, accept, and heal the injuries in society that have resulted from slavery and the consequent racism.
This book has failed miserably to address any issue relevant to this problem. First, its basic statement is, "we are all one blood from one father, therefore racism is un-Christian." The authors make no effort to state, understand, or defend how the Christian faith has been used to support and maintain slavery and racism. Second, it makes no effort to address how any Christian can go about resolving racial issues, based on Christian faith or practice.
If you want a creationist response to racism with little insight on the depth or breadth of the problems of racism from a biblical perspective, this book is for you. Otherwise, spend your money elsewhere.
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Title: The Lie: Evolution by Ken Ham, Luther Sunderland ISBN: 0890511586 Publisher: Master Books Pub. Date: November, 1989 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Refuting Evolution: A Handbook for Students, Parents, and Teachers Countering the Latest Arguments for Evolution by Jonathan Sarfati, Ken Ham ISBN: 0890512582 Publisher: Master Books Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Answers Book: The 20 Most-Asked Questions About Creation, Evolution, & the Book of Genesis Answered by Don Batten, Ken Ham, Jonathan Sarfati, Carl Wieland ISBN: 0890511616 Publisher: Master Books Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved by Ken Ham, Dan Lietha ISBN: 0890512825 Publisher: Master Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: Refuting Evolution 2 by Jonathan Sarfati, Mike Matthews ISBN: 0890513872 Publisher: Master Books Pub. Date: 18 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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