Questions for christians?

Question

If adam and eve were the first people, and they were white, were do we get all the diffrent races from?

Answer 1

After the flood, people started building the tower of Babel. They wanted to be big and important and build a great tower to the heavens...

At that time, the Bible says that God confused them - gave them a bunch of different languages so that they couldn't work together. Over time (I believe, it's not in the Bible) after living in various regions, different races developed.

Genesis 11:5-9
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6 The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."

8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel [c] —because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Area/AnswersBook/races18.asp

Answer 2

well first of all the bible doesn't say that adam and eve were white.

Secondly, the races are all humans but they have different physical traits. If a person lived for a long time in a sunny climate, their skin would turn dark because it gave the best protection from the sun. It wouldn't matter for a person in the cold so their skin would turn white(so the body didn't have to produce so much melatonin). Basically, depending on the environment people's bodies adapt.

Answer 3

Some have wondered, if we are all descendents of Adam and Eve, why are there so many races? The Bible informed us 2,000 years ago that God has made all nations from "one blood." We are all of the same race—the "human race," descendents of Adam and Eve, something science is slowly coming to realize.

Reuters news service reported the following article by Maggie Fox: Science may have caught up with the Bible, which says that Adam and Eve are the ancestors of all humans alive today. Peter Underhill of Stanford University in California remarked on findings published in the November 2000 issue of the journal Nature Genetics . . . Geneticists have long agreed there is no genetic basis to race—only to ethnic and geographic groups. "People look at a very conspicuous trait like skin color and they say, ‘Well, this person’s so different’ ...but that’s only skin deep," Underhill said. "When you look at the level of the Y chromosome you find that, gee, there is very little difference between them. And skin color differences are strictly a consequence of climate."

Answer 4

First of all it's unlikely Adam and eve were white, we really have no way of knowing what race they appeared to be. However I believe in Micro-evolution, the idea that humans ( and other species) change over time thought natural selection and environmental adaptation. So overtime people in Africa exposed to more sun got darker and darker skin, people who migrated to Europe got lighter and lighter skin.

This is a very simple explanation of complex process but I believe it gets the point across.

Answer 5

Ask an original question for once! If you used the search function, you will notice that this question has been answered many times already.

Adam was not white, as far as we know. And the different races apparently came from recessive genes.

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Mitochondrial Eve (mt-mrca) is the name given by researchers to the woman who is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) for all living humans. Passed down from mothers to offspring for over a hundred thousand years, her mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is now found in all living humans: every mtDNA in every living person is derived from hers. Mitochondrial Eve is the female counterpart of the Y-chromosomal Adam, the patrilineal most recent common ancestor.

She is believed to have lived about 140,000 years ago in what is now Ethiopia, Kenya or Tanzania. The time she lived is calculated based on the molecular clock technique of correlating elapsed time with observed genetic drift.

Mitochondrial Eve is the most recent common ancestor of all humans via the mitochondrial DNA pathway, not the unqualified MRCA of all humanity. All living humans can trace their ancestry back to the MRCA via at least one of their parents, but Mitochondrial Eve can only be reached via the maternal line. Therefore, she necessarily lived much longer ago than the MRCA of all humanity....

Answer 6

Evolution is the only answer. I doubt the fictional adam and eve were white, but regardless, if God changed their skin color than explain the other differences in races: Sizes, intelligence, etc. There are differences in races whether anyone admits it or not, the only explanation in the bible involves skin color. Another one of the MANY faults christans will come up with an excuse for. GOD must be, uhhh, testing us.

Answer 7

Where does it say they were white? People have a lot of preconceived ideas about bible stories.

Personally, I think it is rather difficult to reconcile these stories with recent scientific findings regarding genes and the origins and migrations of ancient peoples.

Genetic evidence traces the first known woman back to Africa. As humans migrated over hundreds of thousands of years, genetic mutations caused the differences in facial features, skin and hair color, etc.

I think it boils down to what you choose to believe. It is interesting to me that so many peoples and cultures have similar creation stories regardless of the religion they practiced. Read Joseph Campbells The Power of Myth. Maybe humans just have an innate need to understand where they came from.

Answer 8

Sorry, the photos they took in that booth at the mall got lost a while back. Ok, seriously, we have no idea what color their skin was. We do know that God deliberately spread the people across the globe after they tried to build a tower to Heaven (tower of Babel). Perhaps that's when He changed some skin tones? It's just a theory, I'm sure you'll see several other theories that are just as likely (and plenty of atheists pointing out evolution for good measure).

Answer 9

threres another story about thswt but adam and eve were a parable made up by the hebrews so ur question ends up in nowhere land or some corny thing like that

Answer 10

Undefiled genetics, plus sun-activated melanin would have been part of their DNA makeup. God makes a provision for everything.