The Bible does not explicitly give us the origin of the different "races" or skin colors of humanity. In actuality, there is only one race - the human race. Within the human race is a great amount of diversity in skin color and other physical characteristics. Some speculate that when God confused the languages at the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9), He also instituted racial diversity. It is possible that God made genetic changes to humanity to better enable people to survive in different ecologies, such as Africans being better "equipped" genetically to survive the excessive heat in Africa. According to this view, God confused the languages, causing humanity to segregate linguistically, and then created genetic racial differences based on where each racial group would eventually settle, geographically. While possible, there is no explicit Biblical basis for this view. The races / skin color of humanity are nowhere mentioned in connection with the Tower of Babel.
After the flood, when the different languages came into existence, groups that spoke one language moved away with others of the same language. In doing so, the gene pool for a specific group shrunk dramatically as they no longer had the entire human population to mix with. Closer inbreeding took place, and in time certain features were emphasized in these different groups (ALL of which were present as a possibility in the gene code). As further inbreeding occurred through the generations, the gene pool got smaller and smaller, to the point that people of one language family all had the same or similar features, and it would be a rarity when a different feature arose.
Another explanation is that Adam and Eve possessed the genes to produce black, brown, and white offspring (and everything else in between). This would be similar to how a mixed-race couple often has children that vary greatly in color from one another. Since God obviously desired humanity to be diverse in appearance, it makes sense that God would have given Adam and Eve the ability to produce children of different skin tones. Later, the only survivors of the Flood were Noah and his wife, Noah’s three sons and their wives, eight people in all (Genesis 7:13). Perhaps Shem’s, Ham’s, or Japheth’s wives were of different races. It is possible that Noah’s wife was of a different race than Noah. Maybe all 8 of them were of mixed race, which would mean that they possessed the genetics to produce children of different races. Whatever the explanation, the most important aspect of this question is that we are all the same race, all created by the same God, all created for the same purpose.
2007-03-06 03:27:28
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answered by babybunny729 3
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It does relate to the Tower of Babel, but its more of a cause effect thing. After God mixed up language, the people scattered all over the planet. I don't think the Bible says anything about skin color, though. But, the people speaking the different languages would have come together, and started a culture, like the Mexican culture, or the African culture, and so on.
2007-03-06 11:31:22
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answered by pish_01 2
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I have no idea. I think that Adam and Eve may be the first human beings, but that God made people also, in another part of the world. By the way, the evolutionary theory is the biggest BS that ever exists! I totally have no respect for it! Like, a monkey is just a monkey after years of living. And there is nothing such as blillions and billions of years! The world is just 7000-6000 years old! Like this: if a baby is born Ãt's a human being, not another race or something. When it grows up, it's still a human being. When it's an adult, it's still a human being, but bigger, with another appearance! But that's not the reason that it's something else, is it? And the ''Big Bang''? It's just nothing! I have never seen something exploded for no reason! Yes of course I have, but someone's got to set an object on fire first! You see? SOMEONE'S GOT TO DO IT.
Oh well, I probably will get a violation notice about this, but I don't give a damn about freakin' useless points. Freakin' Charles Darwin.
2007-03-06 11:35:56
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answered by ♥ Chelsea Blue ♥ 4
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Another idea is Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Some say that they are the three divisions: Shem is the father of Semites, Ham is the father of blacks, and Japheth is the father of caucasians. I'm not sure how the other races were derived, but I would guess from mixing with the others. Also, different colors may have resulted from the climates and sun exposures. But if you want a Biblical reference, I would read about the Flood and Noah's life thereafter.
2007-03-06 11:38:06
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answered by ? 6
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The three sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Shem is the father of the oriental-types, Ham of ******/African descendants, and Japheth of Caucasions/Whites. After the flood they scattered in three different directions, and got three different continents, and thus from them you have all the people-groups of today.
Genesis 5:32
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
2007-03-06 11:30:59
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answered by Anonymous
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I don't think the bIble discusses the developement of races. It mentions one of Ham's children was born black, but black can mean "shamed" in Semetic languages. It does seem to count things as nations we wouldn't, for example, "Ants are a people of little strength..." from the book of Proverbs.
2007-03-06 11:31:18
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answered by Anonymous
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The Tower of Babel, read your Bible or lest you pay the wadges of sin. Praise Jesus.
2007-03-06 11:28:46
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answered by Anonymous
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Its not a biblical process, its an evolutionary change brought on by climate.
2007-03-06 11:27:04
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answered by ? 2
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it does not say it anywhere
but there is another thing called evolution that explains it and just about everything else
2007-03-06 11:27:15
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answered by Anonymous
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