if we all came from adam and eve then why do we have differant races?

Question

if you said the enviroment causes changes doesnt that involve evolution, is this the reason why we are a distant cousin of the ape, if givin enough time do you think each race would have evolved totally differant from each other especially the native american eskimo, is this why we have a lot of differant kinds of birds throughout the world cause they are able to migrate into differant enviroments causing them to adapt,,, please explain and try and convince us, we are having a debate at my friends house

Answer 1

Adam was half black, half white.
Eve was half yellow, half brown.

Answer 2

It's inevitable for an intelligent person to call this evolution - Scientifically speaking, evolution is the genetic change of a population (for example, genetic change in skin color). So yes, evolution would have to have occurred (and is occurring) no matter if Adam and Eve existed or not.

Let's give some scenarios.
Adam has genes that mirror all of Eve's - One, the other, or more likely, both will have horrifying and vitally threatening diseases and disorders. The affects of these genes would have to have changed over time for them not to be dangerous at that time - Evolution has occurred.

Adam and Eve have common human genes - Variation to the point where there are so many different phenotypes and sets of genes must have happened to get humankind to the point we're at today - Evolution has occurred.

Megan gives a very uneducated, ignorant, unscientific, irrational and impossible remark, "The sun changes your skin color (i.e. African Americans, Asians, Caucasians) it does not turn you into an ape."

- Forces like the sunlight cannot change your genes.
- The Theory of Evolution does not say apes descend from humans.
- Ethnicity is beyond skin color.
- Any change to a population or species is evolution, whether you think it's hereditary or not.
- You don't pass on your tan to your offspring, unless it's inherited by a mutation (sunlight doesn't cause mutation).

I am an atheist, and I don't believe Adam and Eve existed.

Answer 3

Most people/general bible believing individuals just as an educated guess believe that the different races probably occurred during the tower of babel when God gave all the different languages so that people couldn't communicate and continue building that tower. Why the races would have come in then? I don't know. But perhaps there have been different races all along. Maybe Adam was black and Eve was white and then we got a combination of colors. No one really knows for sure but God. It really isn't all that important but it is still a good question. By the way everyone and everything was created by God there isn't evolution. I do not believe we are related to apes either, lol.

Answer 4

Perhaps there were more than one Adam and Eve. Some paleoanthropologists postulate that humanity originated at various locations, and, eventually interbred as migrations occured. By the way, many current anthropologists argue that the concept of race does not really exist, in terms of biology. They point out that the various features that identify one race from another can be explained by simple biological diversity. A people that lives together for many generations, interbreeding for millenia are bound to share genetic similarities, the same as family members often share certain visible traits. Hence, Asians tend to look like other Asians, Africans tend to look like other Africans, Caucasions look like others, and so on. The fact that the various races CAN interbreed and make babies PROVES that humans are, biologically, the same. Take the example of horses. There are many breeds of horses, and, of course, those breeds tend to share the traits that identify that breed. But no one makes claims that there are different "races" of horses. What we, now call a subset of humans, as a "race" may be more accurately described as a "breed." And what is breeding but familial ties where certain traits are, either encouraged by artificial means, or, simply, allowed to happen because of geographical location?

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

Let me do this better:

If we all came from Eve and Adam, why the hell didn't our we become inbred imbeciles and disappear millions of years ago? Two members of the opposite sex in mammalian species cannot reproduce the population of the world without incest and gross genetic malformations.

Genetics and the fossil record proves that evolution happened over billions of years through a process known as natural selection. Genesis is a myth.

I'm convinced that those who believe the Bible as inerrant must do so with emotional and not rational reasoning.

Answer 7

It was a parable,it is not a fact it was a story.
Does anyone actually read the bible anymore?
It was never ment to be taken as a fact it was a story told to show a point.
Go back and read the bible, you will see adam and eve was written only as an example and not as fact.

Answer 8

The sun changes your skin color (i.e. African Americans, Asians, Caucasians) it does not turn you into an ape. No, everyone would not be as drastically different as you are suggesting because the fact of the matter is that we don't need to be. God created the different types of birds, just like there are different types of fish.

Answer 9

Because our first parents were created with the innate power to produce the different races and skin hues that now exist.

Acts 17:26 "And he made out of one [man] every nation of men, to dwell upon the entire surface of the earth..."

Gen 3:20 "After this Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she had to become the mother of everyone living."

Answer 10

Errrr. You don't need "debate", because we didn't - the only Adam and Eve worth note are Y-Chromosome Adam and Mitochondrial Eve.

We "came from" (evolved from) thousands of other life-forms, going back some 3.7 billion years; and had fully evolved to our cuttent species (H.sapiens sapiens) by 130 kya, about 124,000 years prior to the mythical Adam and Eve.

Answer 11

I believe they had all of the genes in them for this. As the first dogs, or whatever animal. As the population was scattered, the gene pool was smaller, and different skin tones became prominent in the different areas, a kind of selective breeding, if you will.