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When science goes racist

I have so far already seen the wildest of speculations by those who'd wish that white people had been "the first humans to arrive in America", a variety of those who it was solutrians (stone age Europeans) who made the great crossing westward somewhere in some distant ice age, to those who believe that the Romans had been in America and that some Roman galleys had been found. That the Romans had tought the Mayans, Inca's and Aztecs how to build all these magnificent temples, pyramids etc. But surely, the Romans, if they had really been there, must have left some of their amphitheatres, circusses, thermen (bathing houses) and aquaducts like they had done in North Africa. It's just that some europeans, in their arrogance, cannot believe or comprehend that Indians can actually be clever enough to excell in mathematics, engineering, design pipe systems and aquaducts, but they did anyway, and yes, that is racist. Because intelligence has nothing to do with race.

In every human race there are the brilliant, the dumb and all different varieties of inbetweens as intelligence was never handed out equally to us. And even then it's way more important to have a good heart in terms of value than it is to have clever brains that could be used for wicked things, depending on what our heart is like. But what ever we want to believe, be it evolution or creation, let us in this modern day and age, that is supposed to be more enlightening than any of the past ones, never use either to try and justify racism, because we actually should have grown out of that infancy a very long time ago.

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