"Almighty God created the races -- white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix."
Here's another question: Do things change?
The concept of "race" is tightly bound with the concept of divine creation without evolution or change, i.e. God created the world in six days, just as it is now. Of course, this isn't true, but some people like to believe that it is.
Humans originated in Eastern Africa but migrated all over the world and as time passed, they evolved and adapted to live in different climates. Try being a collie in a tropical climate or a sphynx cat in the Arctic and you'll get the picture. There were no "white" people on Earth until after the ending of the Ice Age and the beginning of agriculture in Europe around six thousand years ago.
Are redheads a race? Are left-handed people a "race?" There are blondes in Europe and also aboriginal Australia, New Guinea, and Melanesia. All of Boris Becker's kids look just like him no matter what "race" they are.
"Races" are just human traits, and in some parts of the world, enough people have lived there long enough and bred with each other in isolation to all acquire the same traits. That's all.
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I see race like I see breeds of dogs. We're all dogs (HSS). Some of us, like you said are collies, some are grey hounds, some are mixed. In the end, we all started from the primeval dog, whatever that was. There's really no difference, except in superficial things like coloring, hair etc. We're all just dogs.
Who cares. Humans always have found and always will find ways to discriminate, and, any difference will do.
Once it's hands off one group, the looking around for the next victim begins--with the search party often including the group who just got forcibly accepted.
Neanderthals were white, big nosed, blue eyed and fair haired. They lived in Europe and Western Asia. They had body hair and were often sturdily built. Europeans and West Asians have these features today.
You believe this is just a coincidence, because it doesn't fit in with your worldview.
In the first place Neanderthals came in both light- and dark-skinned versions. There was likewise one mutation in Neanderthals that produced blue eyes but haven been several mutations with that effect in HSS. And assuming any human you meet today likely has 3% Neanderthal DNA, the odds that skin color and eye color originated in Neanderthal genetics are low.