Which race are we descended from?

Question

Clearly the ancient Egyptians had high-tech guidance and tools to make the pyramids. Even their hyroglyphics depict wheeled vehicles moving up hills, with nobody pushing or pulling them.

Why isn't there some serious study to trace who these guides were, where they came from, why they did it, and will they return?

With respect Wesley, 'Science' can't explain more than it can explain.

Answer 1

There have always been people who believe that the stories in the bible of `bright lights descending from the sky, and the chariots of fire` etc were people from another world who came to give us a `kick-start`, that would certainly explain why the Egyptians were so clever at science. If this were to be believed then of course one would have to assume that if the aliens were also humanoid it is possible that they inter bred.However I think that this would be `selective thinking` although of course it is possible to believe some parts of the bible and not others. We can not dismiss this idea altogether, but it is more likely that we are all decedents of Africans and Arabs and were all either black or brown skinned when we started off.

Answer 2

The Egyptians "clearly" had high-tech guidance? It's not clear at all, since their technological accomplshments can be explained in very mundane terms (not to belittle their accomplishments, of course). Get enough people together, and they can move really big rocks. Not a bad idea.

The fact is that there is serious study as to who these guides might have been. There just aren't any reputable professional archaeologists doing those studies. A study like you propose assumes an awful lot before research is even conducted. What evidence do we have we'd even be descended from these high-tech masters, if they existed? You're proposing that we are. Egyptian glyphs were not necessarily literal snaphots of events, they could have just as well been symbolic.

All research needs to be considered, and I'm not sure you are considering all of it. Those in the profession who do, tend to favor a more down-to-Earth explanation. This isn't because they have closed minds. It's because they are scientists. They follow the evidence.

Answer 3

I hope you are not suggesting aliens came down from outer space and told the Egyptians how to build pyramids...
Egyptian hyrogliphics should never be taken literally, they often include stories about Gods which lived among the people and had a dogs head etc. clearly not FACT.

As written above, it is thought that all humans orginated from a tribe in Africa...and there is substantial evidence for this.
Also, the oldest skeleton found was of a woman in Africa.

As to the above religious comment, the location of the garden of Eden (which indeed contained the first humans according to the Bible) is NOT given.

Answer 4

According to geneticists and Cultural Anthropologists, every human being on earth share the same characteristics of one set of parents. Those parents came from Black Africa and groups branched out from there. The oldest technological civilizations are from Africa and the Babylonian (Sumer) areas or Middle East. Variations in diet and climate made physical macro evolutionary changes such as hair type and skin color.

If you get a map and go to Genesis Chapter 2:8-15, those are the same areas of the Biblical account as well. You have to look at the old names and who they are now see Genesis 10 naming those countries and the generations after Noah and his sons.

Answer 5

There is only one race - the human race.
We are all descended from Ada and Eve, and more recently from Noah. After the flood people disobeyed God's command to spread throughout the earth, instead bulding the tower of Babel (from which Babylon is named). God forced people to disperse by confusing the common language - which is why we have many languages, and why civilisation appears to have started in the Middle East.

People are conditioned by evolutionary philosophy to think that our ancestors were less intelligent than ourselves. Pictures of brutish ape-men are invented, with no factual basis.

In fact our ancestors were *more* intelligent - we are steadily devolving, with an increase in genetic flaws.

It is clear from studying the remains of ancient civilisations that they were highly intelligent and capable.

For example:
In the ancient city of Sacsahuamán, near the city of Cuzco, Peru, there is a magnificent wall built by the Incas, deliberately using irregularly shaped blocks of stone. Some of the blocks weigh as much as 100 tonnes and are so accurately fitted together that still today it is not possible to insert a piece of paper in the joints between the blocks. Even more incredible, however, is a larger stone block in the area. The size of a five-storey house and weighing an estimated 20,000 tonnes, the builders of Sacsahuamán could, and somehow did, move this block! The feat of moving such a staggering weight has never been attempted, let alone duplicated, with modern machinery. Even the largest crane in the world today is capable of lifting only about 3,000 tonnes.
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/705/

Answer 6

The first humans evolved in Africa. Likelihood is, due to the advantages darker skin gives people in sunny climates, they were black.

"Clearly" nothing. You are underestimating people here. You get enough people wanting something badly enough, or one person wanting it and persuading all the rest, you can accomplish some incredible things. The Egyptians were able to build their incredible monuments because the extremely wealthy pharoahs had a whole bunch of farmers hanging out, doing nothing during the flood season. He could get them all to work for him for those months building some crazy stuff. There are monuments all over the world that are a testament to what happens when someone persuasive, powerful, or rich enough gets a bug up their butt. Petra, the mounds of the Midwest, the ruins of the Yucatan peninsula...

The reason there's no serious study is that there's no evidence that, oh, I don't know, aliens or crazy technologically advanced Atlanteans were around. Where are the ruins of their machines? Where are the written accounts? The Egyptians, especially, loved to write stuff down. We've got love letters, recipes for makeup, accounts of battles, how to cure boils, all sorts of stuff from them. They couldn't once mention something about the fabulous machinery and the people who taught them how to build them?

Answer 7

'Even their hyroglyphics depict.... '

I honestly cannot take too seriously someone who, in describing the recorded language of a now disappeared civilisation, does not even know how to spell hieroglyphics. You're the wishful thinking type, no doubt, but hardly an expert, my friend.

Answer 8

Well according to the bible, the first people and civilizations were in the Middle East, so I suppose if you want to say that you can, however, Adams sons went off and married women from another land i beleive, which leads me to beleive that more than one group of people were created.

Thats obviously the religious way of looking at it

Answer 9

The Human Race jumps to mind.!!!

Answer 10

According to this collins Atlas of the World, that I have, we are descended from six races:
Eskimo
European
Asian
Negro
Aboriginal (probably 'spelled' wrong, but who cares eh!!)
Polynesian (another spelling mistake probably)

Please take note of the sarcasm regarding spelling mistakes.