This is getting unnecessarily confused.
Davidjay isn't describing it correctly for one thing. It isn't because evolution says branches evolve since those would just be cousins, it's because of the idea that one species, or race, evolved FROM another, that people deduced that one race was superior to another. There were ideas in the sixties I think, don't know if they were earlier, that the human race began in Africa, making the darkskinned Africans the "first" human beings, from which all the others evolved. That allowed people of a racist turn of mind to classify them as less evolved or inferior to those who "evolved" later.
As a matter of fact that isn't how it works, all the races DID branch out from earlier ancestors, putting us all in more of a cousin relation to each other, and that doesn't allow for the racist thinking, it's the linear evolution FROM earlier races that allows for that.
I don't know if anyone makes use of any of this any more for racist purposes but when the theory was new a lot of people did, and some races were considered to be inferior because supposedly earlier (closer to the ape-like ancestors) and that sort of thing. Or just because somebody decided they were inferior and made up some half-baked rationalization loosely based on evolution from one race to another. I think the Holocaust is what finally did in that sort of thinking and people just don't go there any more.
Again: The only thing that makes evolution racist is the idea of one race evolving FROM another, as human beings evolved FROM the ape-like ancestor. But again that isn't what happens, it's a branch-like thing that happens.
The fossil record makes the same kind of mistake. It supposedly shows races or varieties in higher layers as having evolved FROM those in lower. But they are probably just cousins, branches of the same species that may or may not have evolved from any particular other variety. It's even quite possible that those in the lower strata evolved from those in the higher. (But then I'm a Floodist so I see all the fossils as creatures that died at the same time anyway.)
There is nothing in the Bible that says anything about dark skin let alone that it was a result of the sin against father Noah. The range of skin colors is best explained as all built into the genomes of Adam and Eve. One set of parents makes us all related and gives no excuse for racism.
Racism is part of fallen nature and finds excuses in various places with or without justification, the Bible, evolution, whatever.
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