“I’d say this research confirms what the plain reading of scripture says. There was one man in the beginning. There was an ancient judgment that wiped out the globe, except for Noah, his wife, his sons and their wives. We all go back to those people. They sinned again and God has to confuse the languages,” he said. “All of this points to the global need for a Savior.”
The book purports a complex history that discredits the notion of race and with it, racial superiority or inferiority.
“This book has a dramatic impact on the discussion of race and ethnicity. What this book shows is what we’re calling races have actually changed multiple times in human history,” Jeanson said. “One example, there’s a low percentage of light-skinned Scandinavians who, you can look at their Y chromosome, and say you actually came from Arab Muslims who entered Europe in the Middle Ages. These Arab Muslims themselves, if you trace their ancestry back, go to northeastern Africa, likely to the ancient Nubians. And of course, the 25th dynasty of Egypt was ruled by the ancient Nubians.
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“Imagine the school child who grows up learning what you call white and black and Asian and African, all these sorts of things, have changed multiple times, how can anyone make any argument for the supremacy of any race?”
Pre-Columbia America was ethnically dynamic, Jeanson said, as was all of creation since the flood.
“This was a big mystery to me growing up, just because we learned next-to-nothing about it. What we found is that, just like everywhere else in the world, that pre-Colombian Americas was a tremendously dynamic place,” he said. “There have been multiple settlings of multiple people groups in the Americas. One of the most dominant ones came around the Behring Strait several hundred years after Christ. This was a dynamic history and it’s organically connected to Old World events we all learned in school.”
The scientifically heady book includes summaries of key findings at the end of each chapter and is supported with 235 color plates. The Y chromosomal connection to Noah’s sons, dynamic ethnic changes, and confirmation of the timeframe of creation spanning 6,000 years are among the book’s key findings.
“Most people of western European descent are not indigenous European but arose from Central Asian migrants about the Middle Ages, and these people themselves are descended from a specific son of Joktan, a descendent of Shem in Genesis 10,” Jeanson said. “There’s no other history of peoples, that I know of, in print that does this. In part because most of what’s out there, mainstream science, uses a much longer timescale and in a sense, they’re not even looking for this sort of thing.”
Jeanson encourages Christians not to be embarrassed to believe that mankind was created 6,000 years ago, although scripture does not include detailed historical accounts of all mankind.
