Ham seems to think that “race” is used to mean an uncrossable genetic divide.
“As we’ve pointed out before, there are other examples of families having twins with different skin shades. These families illustrate that we really are only one race. Now, evolutionary ideas about the past predicted that there would be different races as different groups evolved at different times. Evolution is inherently a racist philosophy.”
This couldn’t be further from the truth. Instead, the Smithsonian Institution’s explanation of skin tone variations starts right off by pointing to a single shared human ancestor — not different groups of humans that evolved at different times. Variations in skin color across populations are based on three factors, the Smithsonian explains, the primary one being the way that melanin levels affect sun absorption, thus affecting the intake of Vitamin D, and the risk of burns. Evolution would have favored those with darker skin in lands where the sun burned hotter and lighter skin in areas where the sunlight was more limited.
Ham traces the genetic differences in populations across the globe instead to the Tower of Babel.
I don't get why creationists are so opposed to science. Even the Bible says it needs to be interpreted. It's not a literal truth hence we have biblical hermeneutics. And most in Academy of Sciences say evolution is compatible with religion, and most religions accept evolution. There is no conflict between science and religion. The conflict thesis is rather a modern phenomenon started only by religious and atheist fundamentalists in the 19th century.