Race and Ancestry — Revision history

Changelog for the Race and Ancestry draft.

2026-07-11 — Rewritten, Sources, Copyedit — Lineage, PCA, density, IQ tails, pastoral fitness, interracial marriage

  • Part I — Theological grounding / lineage: Expanded the pre-Babel unity and Shem–Ham–Japheth intermarriage case; added a patrilineal-descent critique (unidentifiable race, Carter on Y-chromosome haplogroups, footnote on sons vs daughters and “mixed” marriage).
  • Part I — Nested subsets / Templeton: Added the Templeton 2013 trellis figure (gene flow and range expansions vs a clean branching tree).
  • Part I — PCA and STRUCTURE: New explanatory prose on what PCA shows and does not show; added PCA process illustrations and Gusev sampling / sibling-distortion figures.
  • Part I — Number density on PCA: Reworked the reply—census size vs mode-existence dilemma; nested / meta-race rescue reframed as conceding rather than saving the hereditarian position.
  • Part II — High-IQ tails: Reframes tail ratios as the mean gap re-expressed; clarifies absolute supply vs Murray’s East Asian–White cushion; defers the civilizational-density claim to Flynn and African history.
  • Part II — Implications for Pastoral Fitness: Strengthens average ≠ minimum; degree-proxy cognitive floor and exam vs MDiv; related compression and claim-wording polish.
  • Appendix A — Interracial marriage: Reworked the dilemma horns and admixture-math exposure (including one-drop classification); closing section reframed as reductio rather than positive pastoral counsel.
  • Throughout — Genetics 101 / early definitions: Minor factual corrections (synonymous vs nonsynonymous; genotype vs genome wording). No argument changes.
  • Throughout: Spelling and terminology fixes (Principal Components, etc.).

2026-07-06 — Figures, HTML formatting, and section titles

  • Throughout: Converted figure widths from absolute sizes to relative percentages.
  • Throughout: Shortened subsection titles by dropping repeated parent-section prefixes (e.g. Genetic Variation 101: … → …). Notable renames:
    • Human Genetic Variation – PCA and STRUCTURE → PCA and STRUCTURE
    • Human Genetic Variation – Hereditarian Claims (Verify) → Hereditarian PCA and STRUCTURE Claims (Verify)
    • Race and Ancestry: Distinctions → Race and Ancestry Distinguished
    • Genetics 102: GWAS → Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS)
  • HTML/PDF build: Table captions below tables; appendix subsections numbered A.1, B.1, etc.; styling (figure, etc., numbering, margin-sidebar TOC).

2026-07-04 — Draft update under review

  • Part II IQ/psychometrics — Does IQ matter?: Added new argument about IQ’s effect largely mediated by education.

2026-07-04 — Initial draft release

  • Full manuscript posted for review (HTML, PDF, Markdown download).
  • Known gaps and open items are marked in the text (e.g. verification flags, - AI gen section labels, [FLAG: ...] notes).