Dr Ruckman's book is awesome and the best book I've seen on the topic yet.

The following is my understanding of the topic Biblically so far:

If we read Genesis 9, we see that God told Noah’s sons to be fruitful and replenish the earth. God made a distinct separation between Noah’s three sons Shem, Ham and Japheth. He gave different blessings and curses to each son.

Genesis 9 has where Ham committed a homosexual act with his father when his father was drunk. God cursed Ham and his descendants for this. Ham’s descendants were to be servants. Ham is the father of the black races.

We also see in this chapter that Shem (who is the father of the orientals and Jews) was blessed with spiritual discernment. Oriental people are the most spiritually minded people (even though their spirituality is most times wasted on the wrong god).

Japheth was the father of the white races, the Europeans. He was blessed with being the explorer type. It’s been the Europeans that have gone to other lands as explorers even in fairly recent history.

Then comes the tower of Babel, where in judgment of sin, God causes groups of people to speak different languages. The people then went their separate ways.

In Genesis 10 we are told of the dividing of the earth in the days of Peleg. The earth used to be one land mass until the earth was divided into continents.

Acts 17:26 mentions that there are bounds to our habitation.

All throughout the Bible there is warnings not to marry different races.

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation. Acts 17:26.

God has made us all one blood, which simply means that we are all humans. However, it was God that allowed our differences racially. God is a "racist" God to some people...just think of it...His chosen people are the Jews! Not everyone, everywhere, but just the Jews. A lot of people would say this is unfair, but God can do whatever He likes and it is fair. Just because we are all humans does not mean that we are all the same. This verse tells us that God has given us boundaries of where we live. That means that a certain race of people is to live somewhere, and other races somewhere else. If you don't believe me, think about the Tower of Babel. God purposely split different people into different language groups and made it so they had to move somewhere else. Races are a result of SIN!

And the LORD said, behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. God to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Genesis 11:5-9.

The earth used to be one big land mass, until the days of Peleg. So, not only did God choose to confound languages, and to scatter people over the earth, He then chose to divide the land mass into seven smaller land masses (plus islands).

And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan. Genesis 10:25. So, right from the first book of the Bible, we see that God intended, because of sin, that humans be divided. I know that goes against modern-day thinking, but then again, most of the Bible does.

As Christians, we are to obey the Bible, not to be politically correct. The whole "intergration" movement is, in my opinion, part of the politically correct agenda that we as Christians need to stay away from. I will post about why our family believes interracial marriage to be wrong. (As a side note, last time I said anything about this I got a heap of junk from Ken Ham sent to me...I am not interested in what Ken Ham has to say...he doesn't even believe the King James Bible for starters. If you can refute what I say that's fine, I'm just not interested in what he has to say anymore because I think I've been sent it so many times I have almost memorized it haha).

Hope this helps explain my beliefs a little. By the way, I know many black friends who believe it is wrong for them to marry white people or orientals, and nobody calls them racist. It's only racist if a white person says it, as usual in this world.