Evolution, Adam and Eve, Different Races?

Question

Contradictions, time to discuss contradictions.

Evolution.

From my understanding of Evolution, it means to adapt...or something along that line. Survival of the fittest, adaptation blah blah blah.

Now there was that other guy that says if we all are from Adam and Eve, why do we have different races and such?

Okay so regarding evolution adaptation on this, let say there's a population of people in Africa. Africa as we know is really hot, their position on this Earth had put them closest to the sun. Their bodies begin to adapt, they'll have dark skin because of the milano needed to take in the sunlight. The colour of their skin is the result of years under the sun for many generations. Same like why the chinese are fair and so is the european.

That is adaptation,

In a sense,

Evolution?


....Okay even I lost myself while talking, so.....comments?

There's a lesson to be learn here.


Never attempt to write something while eating chicken wings.

Answer 1

You got it right as far as I understand it. May I add that as people moved to more temperate regions, their skin color lightened due to the less intense rays of the sun. I've heard that this is for improved vitamin D absorption, and it makes perfect sense. Darker skin blocks the harsh rays of the equitorial sun, lighter skin allows the weaker temperate sun's rays to penetrate. We all need vitamin D from the sun to work with calcium to provide strong bones, yet another example of adaptation due to evolution.

Answer 2

Wrong!

Africa is a dark rainforrest and those living in the jungled don't get nearly as much exposure to the sun as do the Nothern Europeans (Swedish, Danish, Finnish) who have sun 19 hours a day six months out of the year, don't have dense jungles. Hence THEY should be the dark ones and Afrikani should be the light skined "whiteys"

Genetically BLACK dominates. Dark dominates. That makes it hard to get white or yellow from dark brown or black.

If the evoultion occured it had to be the lighter skinned people moving to the Middle East and becoming naturally brown and then browner and then those dark brown people moved down into the fain forrest jungles.

The other alternative is maybe we came from different apes. Maybe that's where the colors come from. Orangutangs and traditional gorillas. That could also explain it.

The fact is ONLY the NOTHERN EuroPEAN has blue eyes, green eyes, gray eyes naturally and brown and yellow and red hair and freckles.

THESE traits don't show up NATURALLY in indiginous Afrikani, Oriental or Middle Eastern, not with out mating with the Northern European gene pool.

It is beleived by some that blonde hair, red hair, blue eyes are going to be "evolutionized" out over the next 400,000 years due to inter racial marriages.

You see, genetically DARK dominates.

The brown eye will dominate.

Now, why are the MAYAN indians and the INCAS NOT black. They also live in a hot, rainforrest climate.

The very DARK skinned Mexicans and South Americans got that way from breeding with the Spanish, who were invaided by the dark skinned MOORS.

If it's evolution, then technically all South Americans should look closer to Afrikani, but instead they look more like a mixture of Middle East and Chinese.

As for the Biblical, it could have happened the same way, evolution wise or God may have declared some people have darker skin just like God made languages incomprehnsible.

Remember, under the GOD system ANYTHING is possible, even walking on water.

And don't laugh at that, for one day science may discover the secret, only thousands of years later than JEsus.

Jesus, you know, brought back the dead with a touch of the hands. Have you not heard of CPR?

How come Jesus was touching people and restoring life 2,000 years ago and we've barely done it for 50 years now.

Answer 3

that is exactly adaptation

the four propositions that underpin Darwin's theory of natural selection are as follows:

1. within any species, more offspring are produced than can survive in their particular environment

2. Therefore there is a struggle for existence, due to the numbers produced and the numbers that will survive.

3. Individuals within any species show variation....those with the more advantageous characters (genoptypes/phenotypes) will stand a better chance of surviving to reproduce.

4. Those offspring that inherit those advantageous characters that promote the survival of that species will become more common in the population over those that don't inherit. So inheritance is the key word.

Natural selection is the most important process that drives evolution.

there are a lot of factors that determine the adaptation of a species in any given environment

predators, temperatures, phenotypes (including visible characters to attract mates which can also be seen as a trade-off....what I mean is, if an individual in a species is vulnerable to predators, then their visible characteristics that would otherwise attract a mate, will eventually become less obvious to the predator, but they run the risk of being less attractive)

Answer 4

I read some of the answers given to you and they hardly point out what is in the Bible. You are referring to Adam and Eve so you have to put the other stories of the Bible in to account as well. Well here is how I believe there are different types of people. Humans in the ancient times were building the tower of Babel so it can "reach" heaven. They thought they can be higher than the true God. God saw this and he destroyed the tower and it says in the Bible that he made it as such that people from then on will be different from each other so the same incident won't happen again. If you want you can just type tower of babel on the internet and you should be able to find the story. Please try to read and understand the word before coming into conclusion. The Bible is made for our own good. Start small readings here and there and you will be happy you did.

Answer 5

The Bible is able to explain the existence of multiple skin colors, and other variety within the human population without evolution.

According to Genesis chapter 2, God created woman (Eve) using material from Adam's body. He had to have done it one of two ways. Either God cloned Adam (in which case Eve would have been male - and she was not) or God reversed the DNA, which would have made Eve as genetically opposite Adam as possible. (Male becoming female would be one obvious result).

If they were genetically opposite, they could produce the entire range of human genetics from their single set of genes. It is called Mendelian genetics, and as been considered a scientific "fact" for a century and a half - predating Darwin. A simple Punnet's square can be show the dominate and recessive patterns needed from a single genetic pair to produce all such varieties. (Something not included in most scientific textbooks. No clue why....)

As far as why specific areas (such as the African population) would share specific traits, it is because that population became "closed", and was limited to the genetic material in the area. So everyone in the area shares a small, common set of DNA. They all have similar traits. (Interesting that scientific studies have shown that the amount of pigment in a body offers no provable protection from the sun. That is a myth).

That God could design DNA in such a way that the variety within it would help to insure the survival of species should not be a surprise. All through scriputre, the love an concern of God even for creatures such as bird (and flowers) is mentioned. But that is long ways from somehow having a one celled organism keep growing in complexity, genetic material, etc. until it becomes a human being. That just simply violates too many of the established laws of physics and nature.

Answer 6

I think everyone believes in micro-evolution (which is what you are describing). That is far different than accepting it on a macro level...

Micro-evolution deals with the adaptations and changes within a species. The DNA adapts to environmental changes, but nothing "new" is being added. Macro-evolution, on the other hand, involves the addition of new traits (i.e.- a transition) into a new species. How does DNA produce something other than it is programmed for? How does new genetic code get added to an existing biological system? Macro-Evolutionists promote mutations as the vehicle through which new DNA is created. Without going off on discussing that tangent (mutations), that theory presents a whole host of new problems..

Micro-evolution is an accepted fact, and is observable throughout nature. Macro-evolution is simply a theory, and it has never been observed in science.

Answer 7

Natural Selection means that those who fit their environment the best will live longer and have more babys so the population over a long time "adapts" to the environment.
Heavy sun exposre favors people with darker skin->black people in the southern hemisphere.

Answer 8

Someone once described Evolution as being like someone who is decorating, who opens tins of paint and throws them into the room willy nilly, and hopes the decorating will turn out perfect.

Evolution is a load of guff, and God id perfect. Adam and Eve are the first man and woman of the human race, and were created in God's image. So about different races...God made them so. It may seem impossible to the carnal mind, but God can do immeasurably more than we caould ever ask or imagine.

And to God a thousand years are like a day, and a day like a thousand years. Although there are no dates between Adam and Noah in the genealogy in Genesis, it could have been any length of time...maybe even thousands of years.

Answer 9

I'm sorry but "in a sense" evolution? No just evolution period. Change at the genetic level within any given species equals evolution.

Answer 10

In effect I believe in evolution, so we came from animals and that every animal changing when the weather or everything is changing. I don't believe in Adam & Eva. I'm sorry.