I don't read the bible. SO, this is my ignorant question for the week. Adam and Eve were white, (according to the illustrations I've seen). If that's the case, (or if you believe they were black, asian, hispanic, or another race) How did we evolve into other races?
2006-12-04 19:02:32 · 9 answers · asked by munkees81 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
UATRANSPORTER...that doesn't answer my question. If Adam and Eve started the human race, no matter WHAT race they were, how did other races evolve? If Adam and Eve really were the roots of all of us, how could there have been other regions of the world with different races? Are you suggesting there was an Adam and Eve of every race?
2006-12-04 19:10:54 · update #1
Read the question again, people. It doesn't matter if they were white, green, blue or yellow. That's NOT what I'm getting at!
2006-12-04 19:18:43 · update #2
According to the Bible, all people today descended from the survivors of a great Flood - Noah's family, who in turn descentded from Adam and Eve (Gen 1:11). There are many stories, from many parts of the world, of a great Flood that only several people survived to repopulate the earth.
But today we have many different groups, often called "races" with what seem to be greatly differing features. The most obvious of these is skin color. Some see this as a reason to doubt the Bible's record of history. They believe that the various groups could have arisen only by evolving separately over tens of thousands of years. However, this does not follow from the evidence.
The Bible tells us how the population that descended from Noah's family had one language and were living together and disobeying God's command to "fill the earth" (Gen 9:1, 11:4). God confused their language, causing a break-up of the population into smaller groups, which scattered over the earth (Gen. 11:8-9). Modern genetics shows how, following such a break-up of a population, variations in skin color, for example, can develop in only a few generations. And there is good evidence to show that the various groups of people we have today have NOT been separated for huge periods of time.
One could say there is really only one race - the human race. The Bible teaches us that God has "made from one blood all nations of men" (Acts 17:26. Scripture distinguishes people by tribal or national groupings, not by skin color or physical features. Clearly, though, there are groups of people who have certain features (e.g.skin color) in common, which distinguish them from other groups. We prefer to call these "people groups" rather than "races," to avoid the evolutionary and racist connotations that have become associated with the word "race."
All peoples can intermarry and produce fertile offspring. This shows that the biological differences between the "races" are not great. In fact, the DNA differences are trivial. The DNA of any two people in the world would typically differ by just 0.2%. Of this, only 6% can be linked to racial categories; the rest is "withinrace" variation.
This genetic unity means, for instance, that white Americans, although ostensibly far removed from black Americans in phenotype, can sometimes be better tissue matches for them than other black Americans.
For more information on this check out this link
http://www.answersingenesis.org
2006-12-04 21:19:50 · answer #1 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible never said Adam and Eve were white.
According to the Bible, the location of the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve were created and lived was in the Middle East. Specifically in modern Iraq, eastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and Southwest Iran.
They would have been brown!
Differences in people and races came about as we evolved through time adapting to different areas of the world as we spread through out the world.
2006-12-05 03:12:59 · answer #2 · answered by dndllc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Magic.
Adam and Eve weren't white, because there never was a real flesh and blood Adam and Eve.
(Incidentally, Adam in Hebrew is the word for earth. That would imply a dark colored person.)
2006-12-05 03:13:00 · answer #3 · answered by Underground Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve were not white or black. They were more likely, brown. Read this article. It will explain the whole thing.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/cfol/ch2-variation.asp
If you want to listen to a 1 1/2 minute explanation go to
http://www.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/hurl?f=aig/Volume_049/20.rm
2006-12-05 03:21:35 · answer #4 · answered by upsman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know!
I have read the Bible....and nothing about the colour of people's skin really stands out as remarkable in my memory.
2006-12-05 03:07:41 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when the people were building the tower to heaven God made them speak in different languages, so from there they prabably went to different regions of the wolrd the one that went to africa became black over all the years being in the sun and so on.
2006-12-05 03:06:26 · answer #6 · answered by uatransporter 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
By mutations over very long periods of time.
2006-12-05 03:06:09 · answer #7 · answered by Max 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were white in white guys bible....they were more like middle eastern looking.
Blessings
David
2006-12-05 03:04:59 · answer #8 · answered by David T 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only encarnation answers this question
2006-12-05 03:04:10 · answer #9 · answered by walid_abazza 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋