# Do we know how Bob Jones University defined race?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 23, 2015, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-know-how-bob-jones-university-defined-race/715788 "2015-03-23T16:31:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-know-how-bob-jones-university-defined-race/715788/41 "2015-03-30T22:08:10Z")

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> > According to the interpretation espoused by Goldsboro, race is determined by descendance from one of Noah’s three sons - Ham, Shem, and Japheth. Based on this interpretation, Orientals and Negroes are Hamitic, Hebrews are Shemitic, and Caucasians are Japhethitic.
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> 😕This place hands out degrees in biology or other sciences?!

They kinda have to. They’re clearly not qualified to discern whether someone has _earned_ one…

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