If Adam and Eve were the first humans........?

Question

If Adam and Eve are the ultimate ancestors of every person on earth, where did the many different races come from? Remember that if you think that humans adapted over millions of years to accomadate their regions of the world, that eludes to evolution. Please clarify.

Answer 1

That's just a fairy tale for Christians, jews and muslims.

Answer 2

In Gen chapter one, God is busy refurbishing the earth so flesh can inhabit it. You have Day one thru Day 5 - then you come to day 6 - and at 1:26 man is created in the image of God and the Host, and woman is made as well - the creation of the Lord, the races - And God looked at it and it was all good. Then on Day 7 he rested. Then, on day 8, God realized he didn't have a man to till the ground (tend to the Garden - a farmer, if you will) So he formed Adam. I know that (gen 1:6) it says He formed "man"- but this word "man" utilized is different than used previously just for "mankind" - this word man in Hebrew is eth.Hah Adham , or "the Adam" or "the man" - a specific guy to stay and care for the Garden, and God made Eve for his wife. Remember when Cain was eventually thrown out of the Garden, and he went to the City of Nod and took a wife? If Adam and Eve were the only people on Earth, where did he find a wife, a city much less? Well, its from all those created on the 6th day. When Eve is called the "mother of all living", thats a hebrew idiiom which simply means if you're not in Christ, you're not living - Christ, the Tree of Life, the only way to eternal life, etc)
There is absolutely no controversy between true science and The True Word of God. The problem is when either a scientist doesn't understand what the Word really says, or a "Christian" doesn't understand the science. I hope this is helpful. Jan

Answer 3

>>If Adam and Eve are the ultimate ancestors of every person on earth, where did the many different races come from?<<

The different races came from Adam and Eve. Our most recent common ancestor may have lived just a few thousand years ago.

Answer 4

Science and the Bible both verify the same thing about races. There is only 1 human race. That is homosapien. What you are calling races are really just people groups. Genetically, every people group is part of the human race.

Now, there are variations of people that are simply genitics. Those who live in warm climates will tend to pass along the genes that are geared toward warm climates. Those that live in cold climates will pass along genes that are advantageous in cold climates.

Before you start to say "that is evolution", I would add the following. What I am talking about is "natural selection", which is variations within it's own kind. That means, humans varying within the human race. This is what the Bible teaches in Genesis as well as what is verifyable in science. Evolution says that changes occur across different kinds of species, which is neither Biblical nor scientific.

So, to summarize: There is only 1 race, that is the human race. Differences in people groups are only slight variations with the human kind, not new people groups.

Answer 5

What can be said about that? The son's that the Bible mentions as their children went out and found wives somewhere. The implication that the mother's of their children may not have qualified as human by Biblical standards leaves too much wide open territory for me. Were Adam and Eve created beings whose progeny bred with evolved beings and the variations in offspring led to the varieties existing now? Could be?
Even so, I've always thought the intention of the story was to bring us to the conclusion that we are all equal, all having to struggle hard to get back to peace we could have had without arrogance and pride if we choose to seek a good life.
Personally, I don't deny the possibility that A&E were aliens placed here with a scientific mission who ran amock with the natives and found enough genitically in common to make evolution go loop de loop and and give all kinds of conflict to the world to follow. Thanks a whole heap, Lucifer, for messing with the planet EARTH. Was it you who said "Oh yeah, A&E, don't those apes look good ?" ? Your Heritage still haunts us to this day.

Answer 6

just for example

Noah's sons

Shem - Hebrews/ Chaldeans/ Assyrians/ Persians/ Syrians

Ham - Canaanites/ Egyptians/ Philistines/ Hittites/ Amorites

Japheth - Greeks/ Thracians/ Scythians

Shem's descendants were called Semites. Abraham, David, and Jesus descended from Shem. Ham's descendants settled in Canaan, Egypt, and the rest of Africa. Japheth's descendants settled for the most part in Europe and Asia Minor.

Consider also in Genesis 11 about the Tower of Babel. Verse 8-9 says - In that way, the LORD scattered them all over the earth; and that ended the building of the city. That is why the city was called Babel, because it was there that the LORD confused the people by giving them many languages, thus scattering them across the earth.

God bless you....

Answer 7

Nobody knows what color Adam and Eve were. What if for example. Adam was "white" with blond,straight hair and blue eyes and Eve was "Black" with all the features that accompany being "Black"? Dark eyes, dark curly hair etc? Or if at the tower of Babel when God confounded the peoples languages so that everybody spoke different languages he also changed their color so that people who spoke the same language could find each other better? There is even a theory that states that when God put a mark on Cain so that no one would kill him for having killed Abel, that maybe the "mark" was that he became "black". It will continue to be one of the many mysteries we will find out about in heaven.

Answer 8

Is it possible for the first couple human-types on earth, we'll just call them Adam and Eve for fun, could have populated into a larger mass of people, and the mass slowly explored the Earth and went their separate ways and evolved slowly over thousands of years? Is it possible that the idea of an "Adam and Eve" and evolution could coexist?

Answer 9

God put into our genetic makeup the ability to produce all the races of men on the earth. In ancient times after the flood, Noah's sons went out into the earth, brothers and sisters needed to marry to repopulate the earth, now say one of these brothers had almond shaped eyes, considering that he married his sister and moved to a different location than his other brothers and sisters that particular gene producing almond shaped eyes was isolated to their region and the constant marrying of sister to brother would have made that a dominate trait, hence the orientals, this would work in other traits as well, skin color, hair color, eye color and shape, build, head shape, nose shape, I think that should give you an idea, now over the course of hundreds and thousands of years you would have your different races. So, that is not evolution but genetic diversity.

Answer 10

Genesis 1-11 may be a Near Eastern myth picked up by Jewish writers.
..."Perhaps it would be better to think of the stories of Genesis 1-11 as 'parables,' theological narratives whose intention is to present the Israelite view of the meaning of such fundamental realities as God transcendent and immanent, the creation, blessed humankind, the frustration of God's design by human sin, and the restoration and renewal of humanity by divine grace."

Harper's Bible Commentary, page 93

Answer 11

I cannot seem to make myself believe in Adam and Eve...I wish I could then I'd believe 100% in the Bible. A lot of it rings true to me however. Maybe someone else can shed some light and logic on this story.