Daniel A Ashlock
Jun-24-93 08:46AM
 Henry Morris, racist? -some data

Organization: Iowa State University
From: danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock)
Message-ID: <1993Jun24.114617@iastate.edu>
Reply-To: danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock)
Newsgroups: talk.origins

   Apparently Iowa State goes out of it's way to
collect Creation/Evolution books and we have a
"special collection" devoted to the subject.  Books
in a "special collection" cannot be checked out so
I sat and read chapters 10 and 11 of "The Beginning
of the World" by Henry Morris and found the quote
Richard  Trott was trying to track down on page 148.

   I will limit myself to posting the correct quote,
with some additional context, in this article, but
expect me to follow myself up.  I typed this by hand
and did one proofing sweep so look out (I'm a terrible
typist).  Anyone who follows up and yells at me for the
Morris material will get a visit from my cousin Guido,
a Japhthite with an attitude and a really big baseball
bat :-}  You have been warned.

Dan
Danwell@IASTATE.EDU
------------------------inclusion---------------------
From:
   _The Beginning of the World_
   Henry Morris, 1991
   PP 147-148

     The descendants of Ham were marked especially for secular
  service to mankind.  Indeed they were to be "servants of
  servants" that is "servants _extrodinary_!"  Although only
  Canaan is mentioned specifically (possibly because the branch
  of Ham's family through Canaan would later come into most
  direct contact with Israel), the whole family of Ham is in view.
  The prophecy is worldwide in scope and, since Shem and
  Japeth are covered, all Ham's descendants must be also.
  These include all nations which are neither Semetic nor
  Japhetic.  Thus, all of the earth's "colored" races, -yellow, red,
  brown, and black - essentially the Afro-Asian group of peo-
  ples, including the American Indians - are possibly Hamatic
  in origin and included within the scope of the Canaanitic
  prophesy, as well as the Egyptians, Sumerians, Hittites, and
  Phoenicians of antiquity.

     The Hamites have been the great "servants" of mankind in
  the following ways, among many others: (1) they were the
  original explorers and settlers of practically all parts of the
  world, following the dispersion at Babel; (2) they were the
  first cultivators of most of the basic food staples of the world,
  such as potatoes, corn, beans, cereals, and others, as well as
  the first ones to domesticate most animals; (3) they developed
  most of the basic types of structural forms and building tools
  and materials; (4) they were the first to develop fabrics for
  clothing and various sewing and weaving devices; (5) they
  were the discoverers and inventors of an amazingly wide
  variety of medicines and surgical practices and instruments;
  (6) most of the concepts of basic mathematics, including
  algebra, geometry, and trigonometry were developed by
  Hamites; (7) the machinery of commerce and trade - money,
  banks, postal systems, etc. - were invented by them; (8) they
  developed paper, ink, block printing, moveable type, and other
  accoutrements of writing and communication.  It seems that
  almost no matter what the particular device or principle or
  system may be, if one traces back far enough, he will find that
  it originated with the Sumerians or Egyptians or early Chinese
  or some other Hamatic people.  Truy they have been the "ser-
  vants" of mankind in a most amazing way.

     Yet the prophecy again has its obverse side.  Somehow they
  have only gone so far and no farther.  The Japethites and
  Semites have, sooner or later, taken over their territories, and
  their inventions, and then developed them and utilized them
  for their own enlargement.  Often the Hamites, especially the
  Negros, have become actual personal servants or even slaves
  to the others.  Posessed of a genetic character concerned
  mainly with mundane matters, they have eventually been dis-
  placed by the intellectual and philosophical acumen of the
  Japethites and the religious zeal of the Semites.