What’s YEC explanation for the emergence of races?

The only people making this claim are those who have no knowledge of linguistics. A good dictionary will usually have a language tree somewhere in the beginning; if you grab yours and look you'll discover that neither Latin nor Greek are anywhere close to the bottom. Sanskrit (for instance) is much closer to the bottom. Of course, no one knows what the "first" language was - if such a thing exists - but it's obvious that both Greek and Latin developed from earlier languages.Certainly these two languages form the roots of a number of European languages, including English. But compare latin or greek to any asian or arab language and you'll see they share almost no similarities. Either you're reading too much science-fiction (is that possible?) or else you're imposing a goal on evolution where none exists. The purpose of evolution is not to build a better human. The purpose of evolution is that it has no real purpose, it only has results. And the results are organisms that are adapted to their environments.As far as specific, deliberate alteration of human gene sequences, we've only taken the first baby-steps on that path. Many people oppose it and the ethics of doing that kind of experimentation on humans are dubious as best. We're a long, long way from designer babies. For a 16-year old you appear to have an inquisitive mind. Keep it up and welcome to the board. Don't take my comments personally (or anyone else's). Keep learning and stay in school. Ok, time for me to stop before I sound more like one of those NBC ads. Ok, my thoughts on race - it doesn't exist. As it turns out there's no reliable genetic markers that correspond with what most people think of as race. Race is something we invented in our minds to explain why people from far-off places look so much different than the people who live near us. it's all just adaptation. As travel technologies make our world smaller I predict that ultimately race will disappear, or at least be made much less prominent. In the future it will be impossible to determine what "races" someone belongs to at a glance.[This message has been edited by crashfrog, 04-25-2003]