“Well, first of all, there are no Black people and there are no white people,” Ham said. “Technically, every human being has the same skin color.” It’s just that our melanin varies depending on our genetics.
Ham attributes “the differences we see in people groups around the world” to what happened with the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11, when God scattered people all over the world, dividing them by language.
“Because those groups were isolated depending on who married who, which combinations of genes survived, etc., how much they did or did not mix with others, you end up with distinct people groups but not races,” said Ham. “That means there’s no such thing as interracial marriage biologically. That means there’s no such thing as biracial children either.”
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Ham said he’s actually had pastors say to him, “What about the fact that God told the Israelites not to marry the Canaanites? Weren’t they keeping the races separate?”
“That had nothing to do with biology,” said Ham. “It had everything to do with the spiritual state of people’s hearts” because the Canaanites worshipped false gods.
He gave as a biblical example the prostitute Rahab, who was a Canaanite who helped the people of God as described in Joshua 2. She was ethnically a Canaanite, yet was included in Jesus’ genealogy and also mentioned in Hebrews 11 as a “great person of faith.”
“Now, there is an interracial marriage the Bible does speak against, but it’s not biological,” Ham said. “It’s spiritual.” He cited 2 Corinthians 6:14, which warns believers against marrying unbelievers.
Black Church Leaders on ‘Colorblind Theology’
While Ken Ham’s views align with the idea of race being a social construct, he also seems to promote the idea of “color-blindness,” a concept that a number of Black Christian leaders oppose. Dr. Eric Mason, pastor of Epiphany Fellowship in Philadelphia, has called it a “false doctrine” that denies “racism and injustice towards African Americans which is not in step with the gospel based on Galatians 2.”
Pastor and author Mika Edmonson has listed numerous Bible passages mentioning the “nations” in support of the idea that “colorblind theology denies” a number of God’s promises and commands involving different people groups.
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