How did we get the different races from one race??

Question

The Bible actually says that G-d created man, as in mankind. Much like in the OT, we are only told about the Jews and surrounding cultures, we are only told about G-d's relationship with Adam and Eve. It does not say they were the only ones. This is a story about G-d and His chosen people.

Also, a tribe from Israel has been living in India 2700 years. (Manasseh) They now look Indian, and have only bred with each other. Perhaps the environment has more to do with physical appearance than we think.

Most importantly, I remind you we will never understand G-d fully. I don't want a G-d that can be understood by a human...not much of a G-d, right?

Don't deny Him for the unexplained, accept Him for His love for you.

Thoughts?

David

Found this interesting answer to a similar Question.....

Since we ALL came from the SEMITE region (North Africa) then we can look anything from Answar Sadat (who can almost pass for African Black) to Omar Sharif or David Hasselhoff (who pases for German, but is a Lebanese of Semite bloodlines).

After that, dominant and resseive Genes and geological differences as people moved northward and southward.

Tell me, how do you think the RACES evolved from the first DARWININ CELL?

Amino Acids came together and created Amoeba and we came from Amoeba, so how did Blacks and Chinese come about?

Did we come from "different" Amoeba?

If so, what are the odds we could mate and make babies?

Remember, Randomist Evolutioin is a throw of the dice. How do you throw dice and get 10 species that can interbreed from seprate developments.

Answer 1

The Bible tells us how the population that descended from Noah’s family had one language and by living in one place were disobeying God’s command to ‘fill the earth’ (Genesis 9:1, 11:4). God confused their language, causing a break-up of the population into smaller groups which scattered over the earth (Genesis 11:8-9). Modern genetics show how, following such a break-up of a population, variations in skin color, for example, can develop in only a few generations. There is good evidence that the various people groups we have today have not been separated for huge periods of time.1

Answer 2

Oddly through your Evolutionary discovery, you've really struck on some interesting theories. From environmental alterations in our physical looks to great changes to our biological makeup.
Geography and food change the looks of people. The health of the society also impacts on it's biological makeup.
The American natives were never near the lands of the bible. Nor were the Aboriginal Australians, and yet there are biological similarities. Some extreme physical differences as well.

The book of Genesis mentions other tribes rather often. The book of Nod mentions other fierce tribes that would destroy the children of the One God.
There is a huge diversity among mankind. To say that it's purely Darwinian is as silly as to say it is all biblical.
We know by reading the bible that the One God created his children and that those children later married into other tribes.
Darwinian theory makes no room for the masses of mankind that evolved so far apart to be capable of breeding.
The one thing that is dodged in every discussion is "extraterrestrial involvement" There are paintings of spacecraft in the biblical record and in every historical record.
There is a sandstone wall that is twenty five miles from my home that shows the native peoples meeting ET. Oddly enough this craft and the image of the man holding a helmet looks like the chief of the Ute tribe standing beside him.
This phenomenon is in every record of every race on earth.
Even the Bible mentions "resident aliens" The Tianic text mentions "out worlders" and " distant visitors not of Meglyn's making" Were there other influences on mankind?
How could there be so many differences and so many commonalities between races of people that could not have met each other till recently?
Over the last three hundred years, we have found more races of mankind then are mentioned in the Bible or the Elden writings. How can we be so connected?

Answer 3

You actually answered your own question.

Even if you go with a biblical answer, the bible scholars who are also anthropologists and archeologists suggest that we all started in a general region called the Fertile Cresent- around where Egypt is today. They also agree that there was a flood - a rather large REGIONAL flood - but if this area is indeed your whole world, would not the world have flooded for you?

So, people migrated - hell, even Moses and his folk did - found places where they were happier and developed different skin tones, body hair, musculature - all depending on the area. People who went closer to the equator had darker skin; deeper melatonin helps protect you from the sun- proven by science. They also end up with less body hair, because it's not needed for warmth. Go north, and you find paler skin for several reasons - less time out in the sun, shorter days at certain times of year, and less direct sunlight all the time. You will find a predominance of body hair as well - for warmth!

I used to know why epicanthic folds happened as well, but I just cannot bring it to the front of the mind right now.

I agree with your biblical interpretation - though many take it literally that adam and eve were the first man and wife, and parents to us all, they forget Adam's actual first wife, who he may have had children with (If you're going to look at Adam as father of us all) Or it is like you say - a story about the chosen, not all the rest of the people about.

Still not converting though. But it is nice to see some one actually looking at the bible in context, taking the time to think it through rather than taking a minister's word at face value, or taking the book literally. Was never meant to be that way.

Answer 4

>Tell me, how do you think the RACES evolved from the first DARWININ CELL?

There are many environments in the world. Some early human groups migrate to a desert. Some other groups migrate to the north. Just like today, there are always some genetic mutations in every single generation. In the north, those genetic mutations that result in lighter skin allow those people to absorb more of the scarce sunlight and be stronger and have more kids. In the desert, those genetic mutations that result in darker skin allow those people to resist burning and cancers from the sun and be stronger and have more kids. Voila.

Why ask the same question over and over if you're not going to listen to the answer? This is not controversial stuff. It IS proven as much as any historical scientific fact can be proven. It happens today. One group of fruit flies can be divided and put into two difference environments and they will develop to have distinct differences.

~ Lib

Answer 5

Well, if we discard the primordial soup prior to early man....

The original area populated by man, Gondwanaland, split into continents only several thousand (+/- 100k) years after mankind became migratory.

As agriculture, hunting grounds, and lands were claimed, where different groups of man settled, they acclimatised and developed.

Around the equatorial lands, mans pigmentation changed to cope with increased sun intensity. Near snowed areas, their eyes became squinted to deal with the glare. This happened world wide, over many centuries.

Ever noticied that from the equator, heading either north or south, the skin colour slowly lightens?

Only with the advent of long distance transport has the difference of race been so obvious. But, please remember, it is only a surface difference.

I'm a white male Pagan in Australia and my blood is just as red as a black Christian woman in Kenya. Race religion and sexuality are no reason to see someone as less human. (Ok, off track a bit there, and too verbose, but still....)

Greenie

Answer 6

The earliest humans migrated out of that region of Africa, some to the north (less light, longer winters, and developed light skin and big noses to warm the cold air they breathed in), some to the south (more light, long summers, darker skin from all the sunlight, flat noses because they didn't need to warm the air), etc., etc.... It's called adaptation and evolution. Get over it.

Answer 7

I would venture, the same way we get different breeds of dogs. Poodles, Bichon Frises and Portugese Water Spaniels have a common ancestor but are now different breeds.

Each generation looks a bit different from its parents. And, as groups of people isolate from each other and intermingle with their own smaller groups, certain genetic factors become more concentrated.

Answer 8

Indeed (although, I don't believe the Adam and Eve story)

Except for all that “we can never understand” crap. That’s just another way of saying don’t think for yourself – don’t try to figure things out.























Yeah, but the add on was illogical and a little stupid. The first idea made sense. It was just the same old 'its all to perfect' stuff.

Answer 9

its only my opnion...
There is only one race, the Human race. There may be variations between us, but we are all human. Different races only applies when comparing specices - man and dogs, man and pigs, man and cows - dogs, pigs, cows and all other creatures are races in themselves.

Now how did the human race come to have so many variations? I would say because humans adopt to the local enviorment. Closer to the equator where the sun shines more, human skin creates more melanin. While closer to the poles, less.
ref - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skin_color

Answer 10

If Adam and Eve were real, and we all came from them, then what happened is that their kids inherited different genes from them, and they didn't have the same genes as their siblings, and as the population grew, it started to change based on the genes that got passed on. You can observe the same thing in dogs.