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According to tradition, all the different peoples descended from the three sons of Noah: Africans descended from Ham, Europeans from Japheth & Middleasterners & Asians from Shem

2006-12-09 10:17:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Good question and I have a good answer for you. Most everyone touched on it in one way or another and yes science is rooted in the answer.

Right after the flood they all stayed close together and did not go their separate ways as God had instructed. In fact they made a big town called Babel. Read the account and you will see that like peoples, who could communicate with each other, grouped together and then migrated. In one fail swoop languages and race were created, but it took time. Genetics will tell you that if you have this or that in abundance it will keep going that way till it reaches its limit (if such a thing is possible). These traits are what formed the races.

Fun question!

2006-12-09 10:28:52 · answer #2 · answered by crimthann69 6 · 0 0

Noah did not repopulate the earths and most believers within the Judeo-Christian heritage believe the story of Noah, as set out in the bible, is an allegory or a myth.

2006-12-09 10:15:42 · answer #3 · answered by Cracker 4 · 1 2

Obviously, you are Eurocentric. You automatically assume that Noah was a white guy.
No one knows for sure what Noah looked like. He could have been a mix of different ethnicities. As the population grew from his family, environmental differences could have had an effect on skin color, hair and eye color.
Do you also believe that Jesus could only be a white guy too?

2006-12-09 10:14:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3 1

Genesis chapter 11 (after the flood) speaks of the tower of Babel.

8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel —because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Most Christians agree that when God seperated the people and changed languages, that he also changed skin color on some. To my knowledge, the Bible isn't specific on this.

2006-12-09 10:17:58 · answer #5 · answered by asafam23 3 · 1 1

Firstly, the Noah story and the tale of the flood are fictitious. Differential evolution arises from separation of population, as can be seen by comparing the biota of Australia (which broke off from Pangaea about 90 million years ago) with that of the rest of the world. Presumably, humans migrated from Africa to Europe and Asia around 100,000 years ago, and were thereafter mostly separated by distance and natural calamities such as ice ages. That could cause the racial differences that we see today.

2006-12-09 10:17:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 3

Noah's deluge was a local flood.

Noah’s deluge. To understand you have to start with Gen.6:1.
Gen.6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
The word “men” is Heb. (ha-adham) means “the man Adam” or his progeny. The word “them” is referring to Adam and Eve. The scripture is talking about Adam and Eve’s clan and not mankind. Mankind a subject for another time.
Gen.6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
The term “sons of God” means angels or fallen angels. The word “men” again means Adam and Eve’s progeny or clan. Satan was trying to corrupt God’s plan. That is, from umbilical cord to umbilical cord would come Christ. This is why Eve is called “the mother of all living”.
Gen.6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
The word “perfect” Heb. (tamin) means “without blemish as to breed or pedigree”.
Gen.6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
The word “earth” Heb. (erets) means “land”, not the whole earth. Besides God says, “to destroy all flesh” in Adam’s clan.
Gen.7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Gen.8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
If the entire globe had been under water 150 days, where did this olive leaf (pluckt off) come from.
Gen 9:11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Remember what God said in Gen.6:17, “to destroy all flesh”. Here God makes a covenant with Noah and his sons. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more. Neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. Two floods. One for flesh, Noah’s deluge. One to destroy the earth back in Gen.1:2. The global flood is a subject for another time.
Some consider the plateau of Pamir to be the original Eden. This probably was the homeland of Adam's descendants up until the time of the Flood. Today it’s known as the Tarim Basin or Eastern Turkestan. This region is surrounded by a ridge of very high mountains forming a gigantic basin in the midst of them. It measures 1,000 miles long and is about 350 miles wide.
Ussher’s Chronology says 2348 B.C., Davidson says November 2345 B.C. to November 2344 B.C. for Noah’s deluge.
Records of the Sumerians in Mesopotamia., their King Lists date to about 3350 B.C., and show an ongoing civilization well through the period of the flood. Egypt felt nothing of the deluge, they had an uninterrupted succession of Dynasties. China's civilization during the Yao Dynasty (between 2400 B.C. – 2200 B.C.) with no record of a cataclysmic interruption.
So Noah’s deluge was a local flood. But there was a global flood in Gen.1:2. Study II Pet.3:5-7, Jer.4:23-27.
Psa.104:6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. Psa.104:7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Gen 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

2006-12-09 10:24:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Noah had three sons, who were married to women who were very different looking each one. I often wondered what the world would have been like, had Noah had more sons who had more wives. Hmmm.

2006-12-09 10:18:00 · answer #8 · answered by Felicitas 3 · 0 1

If you have a Bible read about the Tower Of Babble. It tells about how God became angry and confused the people by changing the way they look and their language. Up until then all people were of one race and all spoke the same language.

2006-12-09 11:13:41 · answer #9 · answered by Pamela V 7 · 0 0

actually blacks are that colour because of the harsh sun. ther is no such thng as evolution. jee its not possible just think bout it, one ordinary cell cannot function without all the organelles; they all need to be ther fo it to work. ther r so many other small but large details that darwin didnt have the technolagy for, thinking it was too minor etc. imagine all those innocent deaths in the 20th century. the background is darwinism and eugenisis.

2006-12-09 10:16:07 · answer #10 · answered by fatima_hassanien 1 · 0 2

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