2006-11-29 18:02:53 · 17 answers · asked by a.nomaly 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
people seem to be missing the concept of the VICE VERSA part here...
question isn't a matter of assuming any original skin color but rather figuring out how you start off with one color and interbreed only having that color and magically pop out generations later with Super Pale - Super Dark and everything in between.
2006-11-29 18:10:50 · update #1
In the Bible, during that event where the Babel tower was involved, it was said that God...oh whatever, the bigger question is "why is incest so taboo when it obviously was the only way Adam and Eve's children procreated?" According to the bible, anyway....
2006-11-29 18:07:26 · answer #1 · answered by Jay 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answer is evolution and adaptation. Eskimos didn't live on the equator, and dark skinned people didn't live in the polar regions. Otherwise, the black people would freeze to death and get snow blinded, and the Eskimos would get sun burned and suffer heat exhaustion.
Adam and Eve were 2 tribes of people. The Bible states that they were a single man and a single woman, because the general population at that time were uneducated and could not understand the details or be bothered with them.
2006-11-30 02:09:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Noah's children. In Hebrew their names describe different races. The Bible also records their dispersment. How this came about, I could only speculate
Shem-means "name" and settled northwestern extremity with Lydia, and includes Syria (Aram), Chaldaea (Arphaxad), parts of Assyria (Asshur), of Persia (Elam), and of the Arabian peninsula (Joktan). Modern scholars have given the name of Shemitic or Semitic to the languages spoken by his real or supposed descendants.
Ham- means "hot, sunburnt" Egypt is recognized as the "land of Ham," in the Bible. Psa_78:51; Psa_105:23; Psa_106:22. The other settlements of the sons of Ham are discussed under their respective names. The three most illustrious Hamite nations -- the Cushites, the Phoenicians and the Egyptians -- were greatly mixed with foreign peoples.
Japheth means "enlargement" The descendants of Japheth, occupied the "isles of the Gentiles," Gen_10:5, -- that is, the coast lands of the Mediterranean Sea, in Europe and Asia Minor -- whence, they spread northward over the whole continent of Europe, and a considerable portion of Asia.
2006-11-30 02:06:03 · answer #3 · answered by Tony S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They probably weren't white. If they had been a middle color somewhere in between, along with other in between features, the genetic diversity of humanity could have come within a few generations, and from that point it started to get specific as people interbred.
2006-11-30 02:07:13 · answer #4 · answered by beethovens_sixth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Darwin had a pretty good answer to that...
The group evolves to meet their needs. Those that can't adapt perish. Africa is tormented by the sun. Does it not make sense that an white Irish person couldn't last 2 days naked in Africa, yet a black person could? My skin burns to a ripe 2nd degree burn in as little of a 1/2 hour of a las vegas 2 o'clock sun without protection. I wouldn't last a couple of days. Yet there are many people in the sun belt that could withstand it.
2006-11-30 02:05:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Were all equal, color dosent matter.
As for your question.... probably due to the climatic changes and the ability to adapt to the surroundings of wherever Adam and Eves children moved to. (aka - sort of a evolution per se) Natural adaptaion.
2006-11-30 02:04:27 · answer #6 · answered by Illegals Are S*** 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible didnt mention their color, but if Adam was formed from the dust of the ground, he was probably brown. And then we either gained or lost skin pigment by where our ancestors lived.
2006-11-30 02:05:59 · answer #7 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who knows for sure if they were white? Genesis is a creation myth, just as all different religions in the world have creation myths. Yoruba religion (Nigeria), Hindu religion (India), Christian religion (Europe) all have myths that explain how we got here, its just a story. The reason it does not make sense to you is cuz its not completely accurate
2006-11-30 02:46:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What assumption makes them white.
Turn it around,and if the people were of color,then migrated to colder places,
The adaptation to the envionment would change skin tone and hair.
2006-11-30 02:18:10 · answer #9 · answered by starrdevine 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe one was white and one was black...u just never know...
but really... the skin color changes pretty much whatever region in the world you go based on the surroundings/environment... in say, antarctica... the sun isn't out much... so you don't need much protection... so you wouldn't need that thick dark skin as you would in africa...
2006-11-30 02:06:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋