In the Bible we have only one father and mother and why we all look different in skin colour and language?

Answer 1

God is a God of variety...so why wouldn't he want different skin colors and languages... All those changes came after Noah's boat landed and within the next few hundred hears when Nimrod and Semiramis built the Tower of Babel which resulted in God confusing the languages... and the dispersal of the tribes... God did it...so ask Him!

Answer 2

As for languages, the Bible blames is on a curse from God for humanity's arrogance.

There are some interpretations of the Bible that suggest that racial differences are also the result of a curse from God.

If the Bible is accurate, the Earth has been around for about 6000 years. Groups that are geographically isolated develop different dialects in just a few generations - whole languages alter faster in preliterate civilizations. Intermarriage can erase racial differences in about four generations, so it stands to reason that even stemming from a single couple, an entire species could develop dictinct races due to isolation, intermarriage, and heritable mutations, after a couple millennia.

Answer 3

Well, some effect called the Evolutionay Bottleneck or Founder effects were not in play the Bible days, because not only would we all not look so different having come from a single original sample gene pool--not a single one of us would have hybrid vigor enough to survive.
Besides that, the conception was emaculate. The father was not a man, but God. No man had sex but a woman got pregant. A likely story--and one we hear very often!
I can't wait to see that defense on Court TV to one of those "Who yo baby daddy" questions. It won't be original, but it certainly has a precedent for belief!! :)

Answer 4

The bible was written to describe and explain things that human beings did not understand, such as the beginnings of mankind. So they made this story about Adam and Eve starting the human race. But since we are a developed, educated people today, we can come to accept that we have evolved from monkeys, and the bible is just an ancient book.

Answer 5

You will find the answer in The Tower of Bable mentioned in the holy bible.

Answer 6

Have you ever noticed the difference between a Chihuahua and a Great Dane? Yet they can interbreed because they are the same species. Same difference.

Answer 7

the bible is overly simplistic and very inacurrate. it is a guide for spiritual living and factualy innane. We need to be more childlike and less judgemental as the bible asks us to be. Taken literally the bible is quite silly.

Answer 8

Maybe (and this is just a theory, here) it's because the Bible is a work of fiction.

Answer 9

God and Mary. It was the will of God to change the language at the tower of babel and skin color does not change our relationship to eachother as brother and sisters through Christ.

Answer 10

Gen. 5:1, 2; 1:28: “In the day of God’s creating Adam he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them. After that he blessed them and called their name Man [or, Mankind] in the day of their being created.” “God blessed them and God said to them: ‘Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth.’” (Thus all mankind are descendants of that first human pair, Adam and Eve.)

Acts 17:26: “[God] made out of one man [Adam] every nation of men, to dwell upon the entire surface of the earth.” (So, regardless of what races make up a nation, they all are offspring of Adam.)

Gen. 9:18, 19: “Noah’s sons who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth. . . . These three were Noah’s sons, and from these was all the earth’s population spread abroad.” (After God destroyed the ungodly world by means of a global flood in Noah’s day, the earth’s new population, including all the races known today, developed from the offspring of Noah’s three sons and their wives.)

“All men living today belong to a single species, Homo sapiens, and are derived from a common stock. . . . Biological differences between human beings are due to differences in hereditary constitution and to the influence of the environment on this genetic potential. In most cases, those differences are due to the interaction of these two sets of factors. . . . Differences between individuals within a race or within a population are often greater than the average differences between races or populations.”—An international body of scientists convened by UNESCO, quoted in Statement on Race (New York, 1972, third ed.), Ashley Montagu, pp. 149, 150.

“A race is simply one of the partially isolated gene pools into which the human species came to be divided during and following its early geographical spread. Roughly one race has developed on each of the five major continental areas of the earth. . . . Man did indeed diverge genetically during this phase of history and we can measure and study the results of this divergence in what remains today of the old geographical races. As we would expect, divergence appears to be correlated with the degree of isolation. . . . When race formation took place on the continents, with the bottlenecking of thousands of populations in isolated gene pools all over the world, the gene-frequency differences we now see were established. . . . The paradox which faces us is that each group of humans appears to be externally different yet underneath these differences there is fundamental similarity.” (Heredity and Human Life, New York, 1963, H. L. Carson, pp. 151, 154, 162, 163) (Thus, early in human history, when a group of people were isolated from others and married within the group, certain distinctive combinations of genetic traits were emphasized in their offspring.)