ABO Blood and Human Origins<\/a>.<\/p>\nPeople who have different blood types are able to marry and have children, just as people of different skin colors are able to marry and have children. These traits do not make people a different race (or “kind” in biblical language) from each other.<\/p>\n
Over time, God’s creation has been wearing down because of mankind’s sins from the beginning. Mutations (bad sequences of genetic code) have crept into the population. These have caused various genetic diseases but they do not cause people to cease being people.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: I have a question sir. According to Acts 17:26, He has made us from one blood. But nowadays why are there changes in our blood groups and genotypes? Answer: Each individual has two sets of genes. Depending on the combination of those genes, we have different features, such as the color tone of our…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[768,216],"class_list":["post-59896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-blood","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17753,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-did-the-different-races-come-about\/","url_meta":{"origin":59896,"position":0},"title":"How did the different races come about?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I've read over some of\u00a0your answers on race. 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I was told by someone that genetics may explain this.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":67778,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/why-do-genes-care\/","url_meta":{"origin":59896,"position":2},"title":"Why Do Genes Care?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"by Perry Hall I'm currently reading The Moral Animal by Robert Wright on New Darwinism. I just started, and there seem to be so many built-in assumptions. One is under \"sexual selection,\" which strives to explain the attraction between males and females, mainly by males, to perpetuate their species. What\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Article"","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19314,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/remember-to-magnify-his-work\/","url_meta":{"origin":59896,"position":3},"title":"Remember to Magnify His Work","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 30, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Text: Job 36:24-33 \u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In outlining the sins of the people of the world, Paul noted that the Gentiles could be justly charged with sin - Romans 1:18-23 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0No one has the excuse of not knowing that God exists. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0B.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He and even His nature can be seen in the things\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sermon"","block_context":{"text":"Sermon","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/sermon\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/GastricBroodingFrogWithYoung.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":26401,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/study-of-identical-twins-show-homosexuality-is-not-genetic\/","url_meta":{"origin":59896,"position":4},"title":"Study of Identical Twins Show Homosexuality Is Not Genetic","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"May 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Source: Holland Davis, \"Identical twin studies prove homosexuality is not genetic.\" 13 May 2013. 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