inhopeofglory
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Actually it is there, just not in the Alexandrian text. It's in the Received Text, from which the KJV/NKJV is translated.
You're basing your reasoning on the assumption that there is more than one human race, rather than basing your view on what Scripture actually says. Because you already believe that there are different races, you don't accept that the translation should be "one man", despite the consensus of centuries of Bible translators. That all are descended from one man, one blood (Adam) - that we are one human race - is the straightforward reading of Scripture.
Have you heard of Sandra Laing? She was a "black" girl born to "white" parents in the 50s, in South Africa. Her parents Abraham and Sannie Laing were white, their parents, grandparents and great grandparents were white, but she was dark-skinned. Just Google "Sandra Laing" and you'll find pictures of her with her parents.
Similarly, there are a number of recent examples of couples whose twins are dark and light-skinned. For example:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,384862,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28471626/
http://fisherwy.blogspot.com/2006/10/tw ... inger.html
I doubt there are many, if any, couples in the world that are "pure Negroid" or "pure Caucasoid" (or whatever). Such categories have little or no meaning. We're all mixed in some way, especially within Europe and the US.
"Skin colour" is one of the obvious ways in which people define "race", but the truth is, we're all just different shades of the same colour. Whether we're "white" or "dark" is dependent on the amount of melanin in the skin. More melanin makes for darker-skinned people, less melanin makes the person lighter-skinned. There's no meaningful genetic difference between them. Between any two people, the genetic difference is around 0.5-0.9%, even if they come from the same people group (so-called race). "Racial" characteristics (shape of the eyes, skin tone, etc) account for just 6% of this variation, making the total "racial" variation between people of different "race", at most, an insignificant 0.054%.
Within the human race there is an abundance of variation in skin tone, hair colour, eye shape, and so on. But after the introduction of different languages at the Tower of Babel, that genetic variation was "divided out" in accordance with the different language groups. Thus, within people of a certain language, certain physical traits became more prominent because the gene pool was restricted to what was inherent within that group. Similarly, a certain degree of variablity was lost, such as that required for lighter-skinned people to produce dark-skinned offspring. Were there to be total intermarriage between the people groups, the "races" would cease to exist - there would simply be a mixture of all physical traits inherent within the gene pool of the (one) human race.
