According to the Bible, all people today descended from the survivors of a great Flood - Noah's family, who in turn descended 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 "within race" 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.
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2007-02-01 15:13:53
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answered by Freedom 7
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2016-11-02 02:28:30
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answered by atalanta 4
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Genesis 10 I have a study Bible. Shem's descendants were Hebrews, Chaldean's, Assyrians, Persians, Syrians.
Ham's descendant's were Canaanites, Egyptians, Philistines, Hittites, Amorites. Japheth's decedents were Greeks, Thracians, Scythians.
2007-02-01 13:25:44
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answered by salvation 5
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It seems Christians seem to forget their own verses when it suits them. Sure, life started with Adam and Eve, BUT, life also ended during the flood. Noah and 8 people were the only ones left. SO actually, we all came from them.
2007-02-01 13:12:01
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answered by retzy 4
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Only Noah and his sons and their wives survived the flood, so Kain doesn't make sense. One of the tribes went to ethiopia so we assume these were black people. I do not know exactly where it can be found, or if a verse says they were black. But, I do not think it was Kain.
2007-02-01 13:10:43
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answered by Anonymous
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"I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept." Song of Solomon
According to that, they were exposed to the sun more.
Regards,
Chris
2007-02-01 13:12:26
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answered by ChrisJ 3
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its not like the bible says the black people came from here, all peoples in the bible started from one man and woman. over time as they migrated naturally if you are in areas of heat and sun you are going to get darker over time and your body will adapt to that just like most people way up north are very white because of the lack of sun.
2007-02-01 13:07:40
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answered by disciple 4
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i don't know do you classify a semetic person as black there is a high probability that the genesis story is a story of the jewish races origin , so why would there need to be any reference to other races
2007-02-01 13:10:05
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answered by harro_06 4
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The bible does not describe where any race began! although it does mention individuals as burnt by the sun.
2007-02-01 13:06:28
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answered by ConstElation 6
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i know cuz every time i heard about people in the bible they skin color was white but they could have probably been black.
2007-02-01 13:09:01
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answered by Anonymous
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