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The secular view of the origin of the ‘races’

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According to the secular view of origins, humans came from apelike creatures many millions of years ago. Somewhere along the way, the line of hominids branched out into four main racial groups:

Negroid (dark skinned people originating from Africa)
Caucasoid (light skinned people from Europe)
Mongoloid (Yellowish skinned people from Asia)
Australoid (the dark skinned Aboriginal from Australia).

The relationship between the ‘races’ was considered, in the past, to be quite distant since it was believed that the common ancestor of all the ‘races’ lived hundreds of thousands of years ago.

This evolution-based idea has been used to justify racist attitudes and actions. History has been witness to wars, murders and acts of slavery carried out under the evolutionary-based auspices of cleansing the gene pool, eliminating the ‘unfit’ from society, hastening natural selection in selecting against those less evolved, etc.
The late Stephen Jay Gould, who was an ardent evolutionist from Harvard University, admitted, ‘Biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1859, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory.’

The secular view of the origins of the so-called ‘races’ is quite contrary to that of the Biblical view and any attempt to combine the two views does severe damage to Scripture.