Reply #67: Yes, we do agree

[Chulanowa]

The point I'm making is that the blunt statement "according to DNA, Race does not exist" is inaccurate, even while being broadly factual.

It's sort of like the statement "Evolution does not explain the origin of life" that the Creationists love to use. Factually, it is correct. Evolution doesn't explain that. But that's because the origin of life simply isn't a question in evolution. To that degree, the statement is factually true, yet still very inaccurate.

Similarly, race is not even a consideration in genetics. The huge variety among human lineages, and frequent interbreeding between all of them, makes the concept of "race" a useless concept genetically. This isn't to say that there is "no such thing" - The social construct of "race" is based off of genes being expressed in physical appearance, and certain lineages tend towards common physical features. However these are trends, not rules, and the "background noise" is at such a high level that the concept becomes meaningless.

A more accurate statement is that "race is meaningless in genetics" rather than "DNA says race doesn't exist"

That's all I'm getting at. We're both basically arguing over semantics, looks like :)