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Entry: Two New Myth-Busting Books Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/two_new_myth_busting_books#5091 Post contents: Intra-specie rivalry is a fact of biological life. Such includes intensive rivalries within the same species from colony to colony. Ant and bees depend on recognizing their "enemy kinsmen" primarily by smell, their primary means of sensing the difference in phenotype. We humans recognize difference primarily though sight, categorizing the otherness within our species and the potential for competitiveness primarily by looks - call it grouping, categorizing, racial profiling or whatever; and the otherness which therefrom ensues is to be labeled something: ethnicity, race, people group. The Christian is to love his enemies, not to deny that he has them. Slave and free, Jew and gentile, Greek and barbarian, are to, through the transforming love of made possible through the Christ, transcend their differences, not to deny them. An attempt to define away differences which are real and often threatening to individuals and groups is an ideological unreality and most likely has at its root the desire to do away with the mediation of the Christ who alone can bring peace between man and God and between man and man. As a related sidebar, at the level of genotype, geneticists have been able to find almost not variation among the different breeds (races) of dogs. Yet, there is a compelling difference between the Catahoula Leopards which I raise and a Toy Manchester - differences which are predictable in individual dogs and from generation to generation. Sent at: 2008 05 16