tower of bable read on in the bible
2006-09-18 17:11:56
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answered by Anonymous
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First it was said that the Sons of God (Giants,Fallen Angeles, there are different views on these) took the daughters of Adam and Eve as wives.
From what we can gather Adam and Eve were probably Semites, which means they had dark curly hair and tanned skin.
We don't know the attributes of the Sons of God, other than they were giants, so this is an indicator of why we have dwarfs, midgets and very very tall men and women.
Then man dispersed through the world and eventually mirgated everywhere, into Africa, into Siberia, into China, Into Sweden, into Alaska, it is said by even science that South America and Africa were much closer together back then and that men with boats could make the trek across to South America and then up to North America.
Over time these people left behind the early ways and didn't really know Abraham or the God of Abraham or didn't really care.
Evolution or adpatation is an accepted fact. Not that we came from monkeys, but that over time things change. You change like the camilion to fit the environment. Darker skins for those who lvie in jungles and lighter skins for those who live on the planes especially the Northner planes.
Plus there is genetics, which is another accepted concept.
Two white mice can still produce a fully black mouse from a recessive gene. they can produce mice with allsorts of markings.
Let us look at some examples.
Let us take some extremes. Anwar Sadat, who was President of Egypt and looked almost black, while he was still a semite. Omar Shariff, a Semite, who has lighter straighter, longer hair. David Hasselhoff (he's real name is Hasseel and he's from Lebanese descent, probably Catholic Lebanese).
Now, you have three vastly different "Semites" in appearance.
With man spreading out like this on foot and maybe later by horse or boat, you took shelter where it was found and enetertained yourself as required.
2006-09-18 17:56:18
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answered by Anonymous
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This question can be answered in history books. Black people are black because of the powerful sun in Africa. This is also the reason they are, in general, tall and thin and have very curly hair. Asians look the way they do because of the cold climate in their region and the strong winds. The only real races on Earth are black, white, and Asian (Mongolian). All the other nationalities and colors you see are a mixture of two or more of those three.
If you are going to think about this kind of thing as logical fact, which it is, then you cannot, at the same time, think of the story of Adam and Eve as absolute truth. It's mythology just like the story of Hercules, and the story of Demeter and Persephone.
2006-09-18 17:17:02
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answered by Maria Isabel 5
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While I do believe that God created just Adam and Eve in the begining, scripture does tell us that they had many children. And that later on, about the time of the Tower of Babel, God dispersed the people and they went to the four corners of the earth.
Now I don't believe in evelution, but I do believe God created humans to be very adaptable. And that as people moved into different regions of the planet, both enviroment and diet made humans adapt and over the centuries, we now have people would look different - but inside we are all the same - Human.
2006-09-18 20:35:31
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answered by Reuben Shlomo 4
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there was this program i once saw on national geographic channel "the search for Adam" where they collected dna samples from all over the world to prove that all people have similar links in their dna thus they come from the same "father" eventually. In this program u learn that new DNA studies suggest that all humans descended from a single African ancestor who lived some 60,000 years ago. The genetist on the project "Wells" collected more than 100,000 samples for that.
By analyzing genetic changes in the Y-chromosome of people in all regions of the world, Wells and colleagues concluded that all humans alive today are descended from a single African man.
I'm not an expert or anything I'm just telling u what I saw on the program (and I didn't understand it all ... lol)
As for why some are black, others are white etc.. I think it's because of where they lived, people evolve to cope with their surroundings. Like people in Africa are exposed to too much sun so they have darker colored skin, people living in Europ are white cos it's colder and they don't see the sun much lol
Anyway I put the link for the National Geographic program try to read about it, there's a book on it too
2006-09-18 17:27:42
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answered by Anonymous
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I think Adam and Eve is another creation myth, just like the thousands of other creation myths around the world.
Looked at from a religious perspective, there really isn't an answer to your question. But from a logical and scientific perspective, there's a quite simple one. The first people in the world originated in northeastern Africa and were black, as evidenced by human fossils and remains of the earliest civilizations. As humanity spread across the globe, their bodies adapted to the climates they found. When people hit Europe, their bodies needed to lose melanin to protect themselves from the colder climate, which led to, well, white people. Etc and so on. Read up on it.
2006-09-18 17:21:16
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answered by wideawake42 3
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Recessive genes, of course. Ask any scientist. Even an atheist has to admit that all living people are descended from a single human female.
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Mitochondrial Eve (mt-mrca) is the name given by researchers to the woman who is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor for all living humans, from whom all mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in living humans is derived. Mitochondrial Eve is the female counterpart of the Y-chromosomal Adam, the patrilineal most recent common ancestor.
She is believed by some to have lived about 150,000 years ago in what is now Ethiopia, Kenya or Tanzania. The time she lived is calculated based on the molecular clock technique of correlating elapsed time with observed genetic drift....
...We know about Eve because of mitochondrial organelles that are passed only from mother to offspring. Each mitochondrion contains Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). A comparison of DNA sequences from mtDNA in a population reveals a molecular phylogeny. Unlike mtDNA, which is outside the nucleus, genes in nuclear DNA become mixed because of genetic recombination, and therefore we can be statistically less certain about their origins. Diversity is magnified in mtDNA and population bottlenecks are particularly magnified (Wilson et al 1985).
Just as mitochondria are inherited matrilineally, Y-chromosomes are inherited patrilineally. Thus it is possible to apply the same principles outlined above to men. The common patrilineal ancestor of all humans alive today has been dubbed Y-chromosomal Adam. Importantly, the genetic evidence suggests that the most recent patriarch of all humanity is much more recent than the most recent matriarch, suggesting that 'Adam' and 'Eve' were not alive at the same time....
2006-09-18 17:20:29
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answered by Randy G 7
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OK.. Let it put this way...
If you will be in NY you will be fair even normally if your skin's Color is dark . But if you go to Florida you will become darker than your normal skin color, Because of the weather change and sunny light.
Human skin color can range from almost black to nearly colorless (appearing pinkish white due to the blood in the skin) in different people. In general, people with ancestors from sunny regions have darker skin than people with ancestors from regions with less sunlight. However, this is complicated by the fact that there are people with ancestors from both sunny and less-sunny regions, and whose skin color may have any shade of the spectrum of possible tones. On average, women have slightly lighter skin than men. On a cultural level, color metaphors for race have evolved based upon genetic variations in human skin color and changing customs or traditions of what arbitrary criteria and the amount of categories to use.
So.......... what are you trying to say?
If Adam & Eve are the first human in the world they should be the African Abe or the next generation of those Abe's. Or do you have any else explanations.....?????
When human group moved to every part of the world their skin color changed because of the Sunny light..That progress became an evolution of humanity. That's why human got different color skins.
You should study the earth's ancient history in geography books or evolution history books, not in bible.
2006-09-18 17:36:30
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answered by mswathi1025 4
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I don't know the answer, but I do like to think about such things. I think perhaps one was black and one was white...their children comprised everything inbetween. Makes sense, don't you think? If one had blonde straight hair, blue eyes, fair complection and the other was dark complected, dark eyes, dark curly hair, conceivably you could get everything else from the two, don't you think? My niece's father is black and my sister is white - my niece is beautiful with her soft light brown sun streaked curly hair (not kinky curls) and light brown eyes and her skin tone is like someone who spends most of their time outside in the sun...tan but not black. She, to me at least, is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. Plus, if both Adam and Eve were perfect, their genes would both be dominant and therefore the children could have been closer to either parent or a mix of both. Well, that's just my opinion anyway. :)
2006-09-18 17:33:05
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answered by Anonymous
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Most people say the split happened after the Tower of Babel. For all we know, God created in Eve and Adam all the DNA for all the races.
Genetically there is almost NO variation between the "races". So it's kind of an academic point. There are outward changes but we can all interbreed, so it's not like much changing needed to happen.
No big deal.
2006-09-18 17:13:45
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answered by Rabid 2
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This story is not meant to be taken literally. The world probably began with many people of many different races all of different regions. Also the native americans most likely came over to the Americas over the landbridge from Asia. And for your last question wouldn't that also apply to today? Do WE think too much? I don't think so...Imagine if the wheel had never been invented...or electricity or anything else we have today! Imagine no computers or internet!
2006-09-18 17:16:18
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answered by Jennyfer A 1
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