Do you believe Adam (the first man) was a black man?

Question

Medically, scientifically and above all spiritually it can be proven. But it is interesting to hear your responses. You know that would mean that ALL men came from a Black man.

I don't want people to get the impression that I am some militant. I am just asking the questions that people are afraid to ask.

Answer 1

Actually he wasnt black or white, and neitehr was jesus.

The first Human did NOT emerge from africa, Our ancestors did.

Homosapien Sapien emerged simultaniously in several areas.

But, it doesnt matter where, because you know what? He was covered in more hair than we are!

The means that he did not have or erquire the levels of melatonin that are erquired to survive in subsahara africa.

Black skin (high levels of melatonin) emerged later as an adaptation to the hot, sunbacked climate of Africa.

Also, Not all africans are black, and not all african 2000 years ago were black.

Norther Africans, the mediteranian coast, were almost certainly never black as it was NOT a trait required to live there.

Lastly, who cares? Does it really matter? Does that stop you from being black and me from being white?

What our ancestors looked like 100,000 years ago has no bearing on anything.

So honestly, who cares?

Answer 2

Well, a "theory" is not based on proofs. A "law" is. Furthermore, I believe you are believing that the "theory" of evolution is a fact. There is a significant scientific group that has proven that while mutation (evolution) may account for some small changes in living organisms, it is impossible to get a human (or any other complex organism) through mutation. Cells have built in correction and destruction devises to prevent it. Also, physically, there is no proof that Adam WAS the first man. Many theologists suggest that the Bible is simply the story of the first man of a particular blood line, not the first man of all humans. Personally, I think God created our forefathers and mothers at His own time and He created us just the way we are. There are too many genetic variables to say we all came from one man. I also think Jesus tried to tell us that and he got killed for it. But then, I am a Historian/Christian. Odd, but true.

Answer 3

Yes the first man appears to have been from Africa. But he wasn't created AS man, he evolved from something else; a type of ape. If all the other races evolved from "Adam" how can we be sure that he was black as we know it? Are you saying that other races have evolved from black but the black race remained the same?

If we are to believe the bible then we are all descended from whatever race Noah and his children were. Because all other men were killed in the flood. He was Jewish. So are we descended from the Jews then? I don't believe that either. The bible is a book. So we should stick to the science.

The science looks good that he WAS african. I don't think you can prove anything "spiritually". I don't believe you are a militant but if you are going to use the bible to prove your point don't you have to deal with Noah?

Answer 4

Adam could have been a black man, provided we see the genesis story-really a sumerian original- as occuring in Africa. see the problem is this, according to the judeo-christian worldview and origin of man,humanity began in the garden of eden. The other view we must consider is the scientific anthropological point of view, we know that all humans are descendants of africans. which view do you want? If it is the biological view than Adam was a black man-but that will remove adam as well becuase it precludes myth. If you accept the garden of eden as reality, than adam could have been any shade, including pink-but that would not be scientific and so on. All i can tell you is that the first man was certainly black(according to all scientific studies)-fair breeds are recent in origin, We are all africans!

Answer 5

Modern man did, in fact, originate in Africa approximately 150,000 years ago. He went on to populate the world about 100,000 years ago. The reason man today comes in all looks and colors is because of evolutionary enviornmental pressures. If the book of genesis can be reconciled with the science of man's origins, Adam might very have well been a black man.

Answer 6

Based on DNA analysis as of 2002, both Y-chromosomal Adam and mitochondrial Eve are believed to have lived in Africa, though approximately 85,000 years apart. This is part of the Out-of-Africa theory of human evolution.

African=black

Not that it matters except academically.

I don't care what my Great Great Grandfathers did or who they were. I am not responsible for their screw ups nor am I inheriting anything except genes from them.

Who the first people were is similarly unimportant. It is fascinating on a certain level, but otherwise irrelevant.

Answer 7

I think what you are saying is debatable. I am from South AFrica, where an Afrikaans (white old professor) did research and a scientific study and guess what he came up with, that Adam was indeed a bushman, or traceable to the Khoi San people (bushmen native to AFrica)
Bushmen were not black, they were mid-tone brown in general, they were a peaceful people who still have tribes who do not wish to be westernized. I am of mixed origin and my dad says (probably for a joke) that my granny's features resemble the bushmen of the kalahari. In Cape Town where i am from (south africa's mother city) bushmen used to live along the coasts, blacks inhabited parts of s.africa which were further inland. They waged wars with the dutch/germans/english and other colonists, not the bushmen. i have no problem with adam being black, because i am a christian i know we are all related anyway, in some way or another, i think we should all accept each other and not try to single out differences, it only serves to set us apart and perpetuate a negative pattern of prejudice and intolerance. ...its love, its love, its love that makes the world go round... *wink*

Answer 8

I don't believe in 'Adam'. The most prevalant theories of evolution hold that mankind began in Africa....then spread elsewhere via migration. The migrating peoples addapted to their different environments over the eons.

You seem to be implying that black people should be proud that the 1st humans were black. However you should realize that a racist would use this very argument to imply that blacks are 'closer to apes' and 'less civilized'.

Personally I think we are all dumb dirty apes and you should do your best to judge people as individuals.

Answer 9

He had to be brown, because he and Eve were the ancestors of all races. A white or totally black set of parents couldn't do that (except through mutation and evolution), but brown-skinned (in the U.S. they would be called black) could.

Answer 10

Just because Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH) came out of Africa does not mean that they were black at that time. It is true that they came out of Africa, but it is a huge assumption that their skin color was black. We do not know when skin color differentiation came about, and have no means for knowing what it was. It is possible that black skin evolved after AMH moved out of Africa.