What ethnicity was Adam and Eve?

Question

Hypothetically, how exactly do two human beings spawn entirely different, distinct races of people? There should obviously be 1 master race -- based on the race Adam & Eve were. For example, If they were white-skinned, then where did black people come from? The children they had should have kept having white children. Wouldn't it be odd for a white couple to start having black kids? Are Christians (unknowingly) citing evolution here? Tell me, how do two people spawn entirely different races of people who are characteristicly different from one another?

Christians, when exactly did humans start evolving into different races of people -- if we are all based on the same primordial race?

Chopper: How does that cause different races to be born -- if they are the SAME race. If Adam and Eve were black, then we should all be black.

Oh, ok, I get it. At the tower of babel, God changed all their languages... AND their skin color. Again, if Adam and Eve were (let's say) light-skinned -- when exactly did man start turning dark-skinned?

Answer 1

It's a matter of genetics. Adam and Eve would have contained the genes for all the races. Just think of dogs. You can breed dogs to have certain characteristics, small dogs or large, short hair or long, white fur or brown fur. You can develop these traits because the original dogs had all these characteristics in their genes. Through selective breeding, you may get a small dog. This is not evolution, but is actually a loss of genetic information. The small dog lost the information to produce large dogs.

The same is true for Adam and Eve. They contained the information to produce all the "races". After Babel, when the people dispersed, different racial groups stayed together. As a result, Blacks lost the information to produce white, yellow or red skinned people; whites lost the information to produce black, yellow or red skinned people; and so forth.

The various "races do not show evolution, but a loss of genetic information.

Answer 2

This is a concept that you learn in high school biology.

If this were a legitimate problem for Creationists then Evolutionists would share it, for in their theory there must have at one time been just two homo-sapiens from which all others descended, unless they want to make the even more ridiculous claim that several primitive humans acquired the exact same mutations in the same generation.

There are hundreds of different breeds of dogs, but they all came from wolves or some other generic dog. They are still canines, not bears or monkeys. No evolution here. In fact, the more different breeds of dogs are interbred to form new breeds, the more retarded they become. Gee, genetics follow the Law of Entropy too. Who would have thought...

All of the genetic material needed to form different tribal diversities within the human race were contained in the chromosomes of Adam and Eve. Different environments and lifestyles brought out the various characteristics over time. The result is the remarkable variety of humanity.

Adam and Eve were some kind of generic human. They were probably olive complected, somewhere in between white and black, and perhaps had brown hair, nobody knows for sure. But there is no problem with saying that all races came from two humans. Evolution makes the same claim. But I wouldn't expect an evolutionist to know anything about evolution.

Marrying your sister wasn't wrong until later because there were too few people on the earth at the time. Once man multiplied the practice would have become genetically unhealthy. Thus, when God gave Moses the Law, He wisely made it unlawful to marry your sister.. An honest FOOL could have arrived at that answer.

I am stunned by the profound ignorance of you people.

Answer 3

This story is just another example of how people feel the need to feel superior to one another. The powerful took the words of god made an exaggerated version so others would feel inferior that God would not share the same amount of information with them. God speaks to every one of us personally on a daily basis. Whether we listen or not is up to us. Common sense is a good example of what I mean. God would never be limited to a book that has less information than a $100 set of encyclopedias. If you really want to know about Adam and Eve think about the times when man first asked God such a question of how we became. God knew then and even now for some people, they would not be able to fathom such a complex creation. So he simply said "Adam and Eve." Today we know the atom is the building block of matter and Evolution(EVE) is a way atoms multiply and produce all Gods creations.

Answer 4

Observable Evidence: Today we have millions of people all over the world with different shades of skin.

Evolutionist's Explanation: Different "races" evolved at different times. (Hitler believed this, by the way. He felt whites were more evolved than others...)

Biblical Explanation: We are all one race (biologically this is true). Adam and Eve were the first humans. After the Flood people stayed in one area. At the time of the Tower of Babel God made everyone disperse. This is where the traits that we associate with certain countries started to develop. Mathematically Adam and Eve must have been middle brown colors in order to produce lighter and darker children.

Answer 5

Well ....
you might explore what caused skin pigmentation (color), hair type, physical features etc. according to our scientific community Climate and the necessity to survive would be the brief answer.

If you are religious ... then I think you might read your holy text .

From what I've read a "master race" if there was any loose reference that might be interpreted that way, had more to do with the religious or socio economic factors of a people rather than skin color.
and ...
Oh and by the way ...I don't recall ever reading in ancient text from any source that Adam and Eve were white (caucasian) .

I have a question to put to you now..
Is it important that the people of one planet recognize a "master Race".. ?
if so why ?

People of all colors have helped and hindered throughout history .
so if there were a master race ... wouldn't they simply have straightened out all our problems by now?

Answer 6

You've received some interesting explanations here. Someone said that when Noah and his sons dispersed, the appearance of their offspring and so on changed with their new environments. I would assume that by now, caucasian Americans should be starting to appear like Native Americans, and caucasian Aussies should be starting to show signs of darkening by now. True aborigines are very dark but caucasian Aussies still have pale skin and freckle easily in the sun! Good try though. Maybe if the environment wasn't so stuffed up and if humans were more closely in tune with it (like we probably once were) then we would be seeing a bit more evidence of adapting to our environment. After all that theory supports evolution, which I believe in.

Answer 7

They were Edenites, of course.

Seriously, the different races happened at the tower of Babel. It says right in the Bible that the people were trying to build a tower to heaven. When God struck the tower down he scattered the people into different languages, etc.

There is a really great study by Ken Ham about races. He is a scientist who runs the website answersingenesis.org. He explains why our DNA is the same and how we all originally came from the same race. He backs it all up with science. I also love his study on evolution in general as it explains a lot of the lies and outright falsehoods of this theory--and it is just a theory.

Answer 8

Adam was South Indian and Eve was Middle Eastern. Human beings existed before Adam and eve. Think about the people in China, Africa and South America, they look different. Not everyone is descended from Adam and Eve. Human civilization existed before they met. The Bible speaks about the civilization in Arab, Egypt , Mesopotamia only. It does not speak about the civilazation in India, Ancient China and Latin America.

Answer 9

Simple answer is "we don't know"; for assuming there was an Adam and Eve we weren't there to know what they looked like, nor where they came from. It is all speculation, scientists can't explain it, nor can any religion in existence. At the end of the day the only one who knows the answer to these questions is the one who created us.

Answer 10

None. They are fictional characters. You have correctly noted that the Adam and Eve story does not explain the different races seen today. Differential evolution arises from separation of populations, and the differences observed today indicate that the separation occurred some tens of thousands of years ago, but probably less than a hundred thousand.