Now that we know that humans originated in Africa, shouldn't Adam and Eve be Black?

Question

In the past 20 years science has pretty much proven that we come from Africa, according to DNA studies and other research. Do Bible story books ever have Adam and Eve as black?

Answer 1

Science has proved that ape-men predated humans, which would make "Adam and Eve" apelike. The earliest humans, who lived a very long time after the supposed Garden of Eden, were dark skinned.

Answer 2

So what? Only a bigot would even care about the complexion of Adam and Eve.

Hominids were all over the Earth when God chose the one to give a soul (for lack of another word).

The Bible does not deny that hominids were here before and after God created Adam and cloned Eve with abstract reasoning and a soul.

Now, back to Africa: Sure African hominids' DNA is closer to ours than the Neanderthal Man (from Germany), but that does not prove that we didn't get mutated from another Hominid (Y chromosome hominids) and then the mutation was a dominant gene and could easily be transferred to the Hominids that came from Africa, by second hand so to say. Through cain's offspring, or whatever.

What is important is that only religious empires have concluded Adam and Eve were the only "people alive" at the time of their creation (mutation and cloning). In the Bible these other hominids and combination of hominids were referred to as other people. Who were the strangers who lived in the promised land. They were not jews and they were not from the Adam and Eve lineage. How about the Egyptians they were not from the Adam and Eve line. Now, think about all those Chinese.

Answer 3

What did Adam and Eve look like? Obviously, their genes coded for all the traits that humans have today - and probably other traits that have disappeared. Many of their genes, of course, were not visible (or expressed) because of the dominance of other genes.
People usually visualize Adam and Eve as looking as they themselves do. Undoubtedly, Adam's and Eve's skin color was not "white" or "black" but something in between. The Hebrew word for Adam carries a connotation of ruddy or reddish. An almost identical Hebrew word means "rosy" or "to show blood." It is quite likely that Adam's skin coloring was almost like that of the American Indian.
For the past 130 years, evolutionism has painted a very different picture. Man supposedly ascended from an apelike ancestor. Some early humans branched off sooner than others, and therefore, they look differently, and have different physical and mental abilities.
Genesis provides a quite different historical perspective. We are all descended from Adam and Eve and Noah and his wife. Consequently, we are all cousins. Think what the world would be like if all people realized that!

Answer 4

This shouldn't matter in any case.
Should we ask if father Adam was an ape. It's not important.
In archeaology there are evidences of mans origin just as any science has evidences of the universe and the world around us. All they are are our current understanding of things; which seems to change regularly.
Now lets get down to the root of this question which was tipped off by the last word in the original question.
I presume you take a sense of pride in your skin color/ ethnic group.
That is fine. Our diversity is what makes the human race so intersting and non mono chromatic (i.e. not boring).
Unfortunately when people talk of diversity another concept is left out of the conversation and that is unity.
We need to stop worrying about skin color or language and what causes we may find to divide us, which is what I get out of this question.
You might want to read the speech of a man I personally revere for his convictions, courage and will to stand up in the face of evil and to fight against it. You'll find the text and audio at the following website.
http://www.godweb.org/dreamspeech.htm
Enjoy and try to keep things in perspective. Remember we are all in this together. Lets make the best of it.

Answer 5

The Bible (which is not a storybook to many) isn't overtly clear about God's color, but it is clear that he made man in His image and from there He created woman.

So, for me the only safe/logical conclusion is skin-color (national origin, creed, etc.) is irrelevant to God, or at best secondary to His emphasis on the creations being simply male or female.

In support of this theory I offer the following:

ALL HUMAN BEINGS are built in the same way - a head, torso, arms, legs, hands, feet, digestive, reproductive, etc. - born through the uterus, filled with blood, and need food and oxygen to survive -- period! And to this day the greatest distinction on earth is male or female, not color or origin.

Conceptually so simple it escapes most of the HUMAN race. Brings light to that phrase, which mentions needing to have a childlike mentality to truly understand God.

Notions of superiority and hierarchy amongst humankind are merely a figment of the imaginations of humankind.

Superiority based upon things like skin color, intellectual capacity, ideology, and geographic location are humanistic, and not what I believe God is concerned with. To me His primary concern is - where He is on each individual's list of priorities.

Either he is number one or not -- which would explain the audacity and arrogance of mankind, when making assertions of superiority. That is if the storybook is true and we are made in His image.

Peace 2 the People :)

Answer 6

We also know from the scientific evidence that the Adam and Eve tale has nothing to do with the facts. There were unique male and female progenitors of the current H. sapiens, but they never saw each other -- they lived 250,000 years apart.

Answer 7

Adam and Eve are most likely figureheads for the origins of the Hebrews, what a point when caucasians were already a separate sub-group of humanity.

note that in the story, after his bro is dead, and before his folks have had any other kids at all, Cain asks what will happen when he runs into other people.

Answer 8

Where in the world has this came from?

come on now
The Bible states exactly where the Humans started at

Answer 9

Yes....we all sprang from Africa. But it wasn't from Adam and Eve. Their names were probably something like Ugh and Uuh.

Answer 10

It depends on who writes the storybook.

They could have been black. How are we to know? Maybe they were colors that don't exist on the earth anymore. They were, after all, the prototype of us all. There is nothing in Scripture to suggest any one particular color.

Especially white!