What would be good reasons to explain why Adam and Eve was black IF they were?

Answer 1

The story is fiction, so there is no reason to suppose any particular race.

Answer 2

No one can tell you that Adam and Eve are black people because nobody of us here now have seen Adam and Eve. Maybe you have seen a black man made image of Dam and Eve, then you immediately believe it. Poor boy, I pity you.

Answer 3

There is no good reason to explain that, why would you think there need to be. All that needs to be explained it that Adam and Eve were the first man and woman. Who cares what color they were.

Answer 4

If Adam & Eve were the parents of all mankind, then they contained all races within themselves. There are specifically three main races of man - Black, white, yellow - from which all others are generated when combined, like the colors on the color wheel. I believe the Bible tells us where the three main races of man came from. Noah had three sons. They and their three wives populated the earth after the flood. According to Scripture, Japheth settled Europe, Shem settle Asia, and Ham settled Africa - the three races of white, yellow and black. So Adam contained all of these "races" within him. We have no idea what he would have looked like, but he most certainly wasn't only black or only white or only yellow.

Answer 5

I do not care if someone wants to create a painting or sculpture of Adam and Eve, and what race it is, but as a political argument, it is not important to me.

Answer 6

now let's assume that the story is true, just for the sake of this question. first then, god created Adam and Eve, he gave them DNA which had dominant genes for dark skin and recessive genes for pale skin. this means that it is possible for dark skinned parents to produce light skinned offspring, but the possibility of pale skinned parents producing dark skinned children is very, very improbable. let us assume again that god got his creation right first time and didn't need to keep butting in to change things, and if you're omnipotent your more likely to get it right first time, I mean why would a god create dominant genes then make Eve pop out rainbow coloured children. this being so, Adam and Eve were dark skinned. incidentally, when this story was first made up by the Sumerians, it was Sargon the gardener and Ishtar instead of Adam and Eve.

Answer 7

The origins of the bible trace that location back to near the Euphrates river (middle east/iraq). Most people in this area would be of Arabic (dark skin) origin. Also, current DNA research is pointing to the fact that we all did come from one specific gene pool. Everyone has the same great great grandpa according to DNA, and those scientist currently believe that the original humans came from somewhere in Egypt.

Answer 8

If Adam and Eve in the Genesis myth were black, the only potential good reason to explain this would be that God gave them melanism in order to help protect them from the sun. This would imply that the Garden of Eden was in a very sun-intensive environment. (And that God took this into account; it's also possible, of course, that Adam and Eve were white, and that their descendants eventually became black due to living in this sunny region.)

Of course, it's a bit silly to try to interject scientific reasoning into this tale, since it's not scientifically plausible that humans are all descended from a population of two humans. But if we want to analyze why God would choose to make Adam and Eve dark-skinned or pale-skinned or some shade in between, the only apparent explanation would be that God chose the level of melanism appropriate for the region in question. In reality, humans evolved naturally into different skin pigmentations based on their global distribution, since people with high melanism tended to die out in sun-deprived areas (from vitamin deficiency) and tended to thrive in sun-intensive ones, while people with low melanism tended to thrive in sun-deprived areas and die out in sun-intensive ones (from skin cancer). So if God was aware of this and was concerned about it, he would presumably have based their skin color on the level of sunlight in the Garden of Eden.

By the way, kjv_gods_word's racist argument below is scientifically inaccurate. "Yellow" is not a race. The only two colors of melanin are dark brown (eumelanin) and red (pheomelanin), and all human skin colors are a combination of these two pigments (with colorless skin appearing pale pink due to subdermal blood flow) in different degrees and proportions. It is also nonsense to speak of anyone containing "all races within oneself"; races are a historical development, not a necessary consequence of our biology. It would be correct to say that Adam and Eve would have had the same melanins as all later races, but they would have had them in different proportions and quantities. The idea that Noah's three sons were the ancestors of the "three races" (what three races? where do Australian aborigines, New Guineans, and Native Americans fit into this scheme?) is a very old, and horrifyingly racist, doctrine that has been used by countless people to justify racial supremacism, and that has absolutely no evidential support. There is no scientific basis, and no moral justification, for repeating such nonsense.

Answer 9

Who cares what Adam and Eve were, it's not true anyways. That would mean that every human in the world came from them and we are all imbred.

Answer 10

adam and eve don't exist at all we are all coming from monkeys

Answer 11

You shouldn't assume any position on the matter. It doesn't say anywhere what racial color their skin was. You might as well be trying to figure out their eye color, or if they had belly buttons or not. The focus is on the story of man's fall into sin.