If God created one couple, Adam and Eve, how come we have different DNA's, blood types, ethnicities?

Answer 1

It is the result of some of the information being dropped out of the genes or DNA along the way. Biological diversity within a species is a function of isolation within the gene pool. So, let's just say, for example, that you have two bags full of Indian corn kernels (multi-colored). You shake each one around a bit, pour out the top half of each into a third bag, and then plant each bag in its own separate field. Harvest each field, and do a similar thing with the kernels. After only a few iterations of this, one portion is likely to lean more toward one color, say red, while another portion leans toward indigo, or yellow, etc. Is it because the DNA has changed? Absolutely not. It is because the DNA has merely been selected toward a particular area of dominance.

If you study genetics, you'll soon learn about dominant and recessive genes. For example, if Adam had been brown-eyed, and Eve were blue-eyed: in the first generation, all of their children would appear brown-eyed, because brown is dominant. But the next generation might have 75% brown, and 25% blue eyes. The blue-eyed people have the recessive-recessive combination, while the brown might have dominant-dominant or dominant-recessive.

Now, let's just say the folks spread out a bit, and the brown-eyeds clumped in one group, while the blue-eyeds stayed to themselves....do the blue-eyeds have the posibility of having a brown-eyed child? No. They have lost that gene from their gene pool. The only way to introduce it again into their gene pool would be to marry a brown-eyed.

Thus we have biological diversification--not by changing anything, only by the process of selection, which gradually loses information from the DNA, and appears more "specialized."

Answer 2

Presumably, the genetic variation that constitutes the entirety of the human race was encoded within Adam and Eve's DNA.

Founder effects and selection amongst geographically isolated descendants of the original couple result in the phenotypic variation seen in modern ethnic populations, as well as such things as blood types, mitochondrial DNA variations and other shifts.

Note that this same inheritance of variation would have occurred if the first couple was *poof* created by g-d, or evolved through natural selection from earlier hominid antecedents. It is not evidence one way or the other for or against biblical creation.

Answer 3

Human evolution does change depending where you live for survival. I just mentioned this on another thread, but as a believer, I think there is no way to prove there is a God, just like there is no was to Disprove a God, can you absolutely disprove it 100%, NO, you know the extremes of both ends of this discussion are the same types of people, honestly, nobody can say 100% the other is wrong, Most people who believe in a faith, or a power greater than themselves, just try to live by a moral code, most people who are atheist do the same thing, don't they, look at many things they say in the bible, Not to lie, not to steal, not to kill, so on and so on, so it did have its porpoise in setting some form of moral code. Personally I know people who are atheist who are more moral than (so called Christians), and many people who are the first to say loud and clear that they are Christians, sometimes scare me, and I do have a very very deep PERSONAL spiritualy belief, All I am saying is let me believe and I let you believe in what you like.

Answer 4

Because science has pretty much proven that we evolved. Every living creature on Earth has adapted to it's environment. People from different races adapted, and it's now defunct to say that there were just "two" original people. Millions of Homo-Sapians evolved into what we are today, perhaps from apes or fish. We don't really know.

Answer 5

I found the show , "The Real Eve",
really informative. I won't give it away but , they don't talk about Adam . Good question tho. I really liked. Your makeing brains think this morning ;)
Morgaine

Answer 6

It change into worry-free practice in the historic close to east for rulers to erect statues of themselves on the borders of their area names. those were referred to as "pictures" and represented the ruler's authority and dominion. it truly is the mandatory idea in the back of the imago dei in Genesis. Humankind change into to be a actual illustration of God's dominion and authority earlier something else of creation. for sure, we mandatory particular attributes-- shared with God-- to finish this function. maximum individuals view a useless ringer for God as this selection of features, will, emotion, mind, religious nature, etc. because the image. yet those are truly secondary. we do not bodily "seem as if" God. that thoroughly misses the point. peace

Answer 7

Good question. Interesting that the Christians havent jumped up with an answer. Maybe they can't find one in all the dogma they have been brainwashed with.

Answer 8

Haven't you ever read the story of Cain and Abel? God can and has changed the makeup of people along the way.

Answer 9

Its called the reproduction of cells!

Answer 10

The key word you mentioned was '"IF".

There are other theories as to how we were created. Science....