How did Adam and Eve populate the planet with such diversity without evolution?

Question

People in the Andes have huge lung capacity.
People in the arctic have much different fat distribution that the ones in Africa who have different shin color than people in Europe, pygmies in the rainforest can not sweat, so on and so forth. All of the examples given are the adaptations people made to live in their environment, thin air, cold, hot, 100% humidity. How did all of this diversity come from two people, ....unless evolution is true for humans.

Their shins are different colors, because their skin is different colors

Answer 1

Better question - how did Noah, his wife, their three sons, and their sons' wives populate the planet with such diversity without evolution?

Remember - everyone else was wiped out in the Great Flood, leaving only those 8 humans alive. Genesis 7 explicitly states:

7:21 And all flesh that moved on the land perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the land, and all mankind;

7:22 of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

7:23 Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the land; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.


In modern times, that's called a "genetic bottleneck"...

Answer 2

According to the Bible, all people today descended from the survivors of a great Flood - Noah's family, who in turn descentded from Adam and Eve (Gen 1:11). There are many stories, from many parts of the world, of a great Flood that only several people survived to repopulate the earth.
But today we have many different groups, often called "races" with what seem to be greatly differing features. The most obvious of these is skin color. Some see this as a reason to doubt the Bible's record of history. They believe that the various groups could have arisen only by evolving separately over tens of thousands of years. However, this does not follow from the evidence.
The Bible tells us how the population that descended from Noah's family had one language and were living together and disobeying God's command to "fill the earth" (Gen 9:1, 11:4). God confused their language, causing a break-up of the population into smaller groups, which scattered over the earth (Gen. 11:8-9). Modern genetics shows how, following such a break-up of a population, variations in skin color, for example, can develop in only a few generations. And there is good evidence to show that the various groups of people we have today have NOT been separated for huge periods of time.
One could say there is really only one race - the human race. The Bible teaches us that God has "made from one blood all nations of men" (Acts 17:26. Scripture distinguishes people by tribal or national groupings, not by skin color or physical features. Clearly, though, there are groups of people who have certain features (e.g.skin color) in common, which distinguish them from other groups. We prefer to call these "people groups" rather than "races," to avoid the evolutionary and racist connotations that have become associated with the word "race."
All peoples can intermarry and produce fertile offspring. This shows that the biological differences between the "races" are not great. In fact, the DNA differences are trivial. The DNA of any two people in the world would typically differ by just 0.2%. Of this, only 6% can be linked to racial categories; the rest is "withinrace" variation.
This genetic unity means, for instance, that white Americans, although ostensibly far removed from black Americans in phenotype, can sometimes be better tissue matches for them than other black Americans.
For more information on this check out this link
"http://www.answersingenesis.org"

Answer 3

Peace!
Genesis 1-11 is a myth picked up by Jewish writers after the exile.They are parables meant to teach theological truths.
The Catholic Church does not have an official position on whether various life forms developed over the course of time. However, it says that, if they did develop then they did so under the impetus and guidance of God, and their ultimate creation must be ascribed to him.
If the evolution theory eventually wins out, some changes in Church doctrine such original sin may have to be changed. That's my personal opinion though. I cannot speak for the Church on that issue.

Answer 4

You stated "...shall we are saying all human beings might want to correctly be traced to the problem-free ancestor...". properly, all human beings "were traced to an issue-free ancestor", a very developed human woman. See the article in "Newsweek" (01/11/1988) entitled "the search for Adam and Eve". 2 researchers on the college of California-Berkeley examined mitochondrial DNA from 147 diverse females from all races international. They mapped out a relations heritage linking all human beings lower back to a unmarried woman. The researchers were Alan Wilson and Mark Stoneking. This clinical discovery grew to develop into paleontology the different way up. maximum individuals seem to have forgotten this dramatic searching. And, in case you probably did not already understand, U-Cal-Berkeley, isn't a creationist college. So, the base line the following is-that "all human beings", black, white, purple, yellow and in the different case, all got here from one human mom. We did not evolve from diverse animals as became earlier concept.

Answer 5

Adam and Eve were not the first people on earth. They were created after God rested on the 7th day.(Genesis 2:7) The first people were created on the 6th day, and since a day with the Lord is as 1000 years with man, it was 200 years before Adam and Eve were created. The people on the 6th day were the "ethnos" or "nations". God created all the races separately on this day and ALL were created in His image.

Answer 6

Evolution is ture. just not to the extent that most people except. people do change and adapt to their envoirornment. but they do not change into another race of being.

when adam and even had children, they were like adam and eve. but eventually the area became to populated. so people started exploring and moving to other areas. once they moved far enough away, to other contenents, the because isolated. this is when people started becoming different. people in asia were isolated from people in aferica. so they adapted differently. simply because they were isolated.

pangea could have also been true. i woudl suspect it to hav haponed around the time of the tower of babel. the bible does not say anything to really show this. but it is possible, and when the earth split into multiple contenants, this would have created the isolation.

the point is, though people are different, and have adapted to different enviornments, we are all still humans. we have not evolved from, nor into different forms of life.
evolution is adaptation, not forming into somethign else.

Answer 7

Adam and Eve weren't the only people on earth. Think about it.

Answer 8

It did not come from two people ,if you read Genesis,I mean really read it ,God had filled the earth by the day, males and females were created and filled the world.Later He plants a garden and forms Adam.

Answer 9

Ther were no Adam and Eve, simple

Answer 10

Now that you mention it, what about incest?
Seems like the race would have died out from inbreeding--

COULD IT BE SOME KIND OF PARABLE??? Just maybe????

ps--- good one about the shins!