How was different races of people 'created'?

Question

Not to sound racist, but I have always wondered. If you are going by the bible, the first people on Earth were Adam and Eve. How did black people come in to the picture.. or Chinese... Japanesse. etc.

Answer 1

Let us focus our attention back on the time when there were not, as yet, any races. According to the historical report, it could be said of mankind that “they are all a single people with a single language!” (Genesis 11:6 in The Jerusalem Bible)
In agreement with this, Professor of Zoology L. C. Dunn says that there “may have been a time when the human race was actually one marriage community, because even today all races have many of their genes in common, as though they had all obtained them from a common source.”

However, an attempt was made to keep mankind in one location for religiopolitical purposes. (See Genesis 11:1-9.) It failed. Had this attempt been successful, men would not have spread rapidly over the earth. But the Creator’s purpose for mankind differed. He expressed it not long before: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth.”—Gen. 9:1; see also 1:28.

According to Genesis 9:18, 19: “Noah’s sons who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth. . . . These three were Noah’s sons, and from these was all the earth’s population spread abroad.” (After God destroyed the ungodly world by means of a global flood in Noah’s day, the earth’s new population, including all the races known today, developed from the offspring of Noah’s three sons and their wives.)

Was this purpose to be realized? Yes, very effectively. The Creator suddenly caused men to speak different languages so they could not understand one another. What better way to make them separate?

Picture what must have taken place: Unable to communicate as one people, little groups, now isolated by the barrier of language, moved off on their own. As they spread farther afield, distance added another barrier to communication. The record of these events says that “Jehovah scattered them from there over all the surface of the earth.” (Gen. 11:8) Isolated by location and by language, the descendants of each group multiplied and developed the distinct features of their “race.”

A question that may come up here is: “Have the races become so different from one another that each one is another ‘species’?”

Zoologist Mayr makes this comment in answer:
“All the different kinds of living man on the face of the earth belong to a single species. . . . As a matter of fact, the various races of man are less different from each other than are the subspecies of many . . . animals. Yet a few misguided individuals have . . . divided him into five or six separate species by using such artificial criteria as white, yellow, red, or black skin color. Such a division . . . is completely contrary to the biological species concept.”

Thus we can see how very accurately the Bible record parallels the known facts. As the apostle Paul plainly stated to the men of Athens in the first century of our Common Era, God “made out of one man every nation of men.” Or, as The New English Bible puts it: “He created every race of men of one stock, to inhabit the whole earth’s surface.”—Acts 17:22-26.

What explains the development of the various racial characteristics?

“All men living today belong to a single species, Homo sapiens, and are derived from a common stock. . . . Biological differences between human beings are due to differences in hereditary constitution and to the influence of the environment on this genetic potential. In most cases, those differences are due to the interaction of these two sets of factors. . . . Differences between individuals within a race or within a population are often greater than the average differences between races or populations.”—An international body of scientists convened by UNESCO, quoted in Statement on Race (New York, 1972, third ed.), Ashley Montagu, pp. 149, 150.

“A race is simply one of the partially isolated gene pools into which the human species came to be divided during and following its early geographical spread. Roughly one race has developed on each of the five major continental areas of the earth. . . . Man did indeed diverge genetically during this phase of history and we can measure and study the results of this divergence in what remains today of the old geographical races. As we would expect, divergence appears to be correlated with the degree of isolation. . . .
When race formation took place on the continents, with the bottlenecking of thousands of populations in isolated gene pools all over the world, the gene-frequency differences we now see were established. . . .
The paradox which faces us is that each group of humans appears to be externally different yet underneath these differences there is fundamental similarity.” (Heredity and Human Life, New York, 1963, H. L. Carson, pp. 151, 154, 162, 163)
Thus, early in human history, when a group of people were isolated from others and married within the group, certain distinctive combinations of genetic traits were emphasized in their offspring.

Answer 2

They were not. We are all one human race.
Now what we generally consider race came about from the tower of Babel (babble). This is were in Genesis, way before fire and brimstone fell on Sodom and Gomorrah and the rest of the fertile valley close to the Garden of Eden, all the people of the world living then, had their language confused so that the various languages came to be and they scattered, going all over from that location. Babylon ins there; the one where we are fighting a war a now

Answer 3

Jivitnu has a very scholarly answer. The short version is all the genetic makeup for all the races was with Adam and down the line with Noah for all races share common DNA. The race traits for one over the other multiply where they settled.

Answer 4

Adam and Eve are characters in a creation story -- a myth. The true origin of races is to be found in the study of natural selection and evolution.

I am a Christian, btw -- just not a Biblical literalist.

Answer 5

That's a very good question and I've been curious about that since I was really little. I find it interesting how a lot of people avoid answering it because they don't know how to.

I could never find a sufficient answer but I suppose it was all a part of evolution.

Answer 6

Gen 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.



hope that ring a bell

Answer 7

What makes you think Adam and Eve were not black?

Answer 8

Evolution.

Answer 9

properly, racism is a factor of human nature. most of the racism I even have experienced in actual existence whether, has particularly lots been gentle-hearted jokes (in particular against the Asian race, in particular by abundance of them in my college) I merely circulate with the circulate, and attempt to no longer make a contribution too lots (I also have a bent of taking issues too far)

Answer 10

When the Ark came to rest on Mount Sinai,Noah's three sons and their wives went in different directions to populate the Earth. One sone went West,another went East and one went South into what is now the African continent.

Answer 11

thats a scientific question, and if believe the scientific side more then you wouldnt believe in adam and eve. woman were not make from men!!!!!! first there were dinasores tehn apes. we were monkeys before different kinds due to different climates. then we became into cave men then 21st century humans.