A deep religious question on Christianity....?

Question

I am not against any religion, nor am I a non believer, but this question has me perplexed and maybe someone can explain this to me....


If we were all spawned from Adam and Eve in the Middle East, and were not able to cross the oceans until 1400 A.D. or so, how were there thousands of people already here in North America and South America with established nations?

There is no possible way enough people could have crossed from Russia to populate 10,000 miles of landmass, and there was no seagoing vessel capable of traversing the oceans.

Even if they could have came from Russia, it doesn't explain how Islands such as Hawaii and the Falklands could have had any people on it.

Also there is no possible way for every region of the earth to have its own "type" of people, ie. skin color, facial features, unless the earth were far older and humans had a chance to evolve.

Any explanations?

Or should we just have "faith" in our creator.

Great answers, all of you. Everyone please read F'sho's answer. He makes a great statement.

Answer 1

People have traversed the world for thousands of years. Ever noticed the way some people of the south Pacific have African features. Or did you know that The Japanese have a "white" ancestor called the Ainu? The American Indians are actually descendants of Asia they crossed the Bering Strait. Science has a funny way of telling us one thing one moment and then contradicting itself at the next.

The Vikings landed here in the US before Chris Columbus and established trade with Africans and called them "blue people". They found coca (this grows in the Americas) in mummy sacofaguses in Egypt. The Europeans weren't the only ones who could sail.

People have the same common ancestors. Man and Woman. This is why any healthy man in the world can have normal children with any woman in the world. Yet at the same time it wouldn't be possible with any other species of creation. We are unique. Period. That's why only the skeletal remains of humans and animals have EVER been discovered. Never has there been a variation of either. Only variations within each species. If there was anything else we would have found them by now. There would have been at least hundreds of "ape men" maybe thousands. And exponentially in many stages of evlolution. We have found absolutely NONE! Why?

We are from one looong extended family. People have crossed land and sea for centuries before the 1400s. This just isn't taught as much as it should be in school. And I'd wonder why.

Answer 2

The Bible hints to there being other people on the planet at the same time as Adam and Eve. Cain marries a woman from the Land of Nod, so this definately shows that there were other people besides Adam, Eve and their bad boy child Cain.

Although Christians don't want to believe in evolution they can't ignor adaptation. People's skin color, facial features or what ever can be explained by where they live and whether their people had a large or small gene pool.

Well the Christian God created their world and everything on it in 6 days. But when you read the Bible you will see that closer to the begining people lived longer. So maybe those 6 days were really a lot longer! There are many possible reasons for these differences, but you have to decide what to believe.

Answer 3

It is written that a dugout was found during an archeology dig around 6300 B.C.

In 4000 B.C., Egyptians built boats or ships large enough to cross the ocean and used the vessels for travel and trade. In 1200 B.C., the Phoenicians and Greeks were the most seafaring people along the Mediterranean.

There were also geological changes to the land due to volcanic eruptions and earthquakes that could bring other land together or separate. Continental divide etc.

Answer 4

Evolution is a scientific fact, for which the evidence is more than suffiently abundant. And the human race is at least 2 million years old, and recent discoveries indicate that it may go back 7 million or more.

A few years ago, I visited an archeological zone in the tundra of the North Slope of Alaska, on the lee side of a hill. It was determined to have gone back about 12,000 years, and was part of the evidence that humans crossed the land bridge that then existed which joined Asia to the Americas. As for Islands, read "Kon-Tiki," and "Ra II" by Thor Heterdahl.

Given even as few as tens of thousands of years, great diversity could sprout in human colonies worldwide.

Answer 5

You question is only perplexing as long as you believe the Bible is literally true, and that it is the word of God. I am a Christian and I do not believe it is the literal word of God. I believe it is mans attempt to make sense of something which can never be correctly expressed. God is beyond description. The Bible is born out of a community of Faith, and reflects custom and practice of the time. Women were not equal, and so it is no surprise to find the role of women being restricted by the men who wrote the Bible.

The known world did not extend very far. Does that mean that it was not created. Of course not. The Bible could only contain that which might make sense to the people of the Middle East.

Answer 6

How they got there is not important. DNA studies have shown that all human on the planet have a common mother... Her name is Eve .. . Of course the Darwinists say she was a monkey .. Have faith my brother. All your questions will be answered in heaven. Dont listen to the so called scientists, they will all bow down before God on the last day.... For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. Romans 14:11 Its is not a matter of if, only when

Cap'n Arlo

Answer 7

If you read the book of Genesis, you will notice that as God spoke, things came into existence. God created the Heaven and the earth. The earth is bigger than just the Garden of Eden. God spoke all things into existence. When He spoke He created.

Answer 8

Just to entirely kick holes in your idea the Norse went to Greenland quite often and were actually the first ones to come across the sea from Europe. Then there is the whole Pangea thing. Other than that I love your question.

Answer 9

One answer is that all land mass was together at one time and then a great earthquake split the land apart. Some say you can tell by the continents that they were once all together.

Answer 10

Religious answer? "faith"

More earthly answer, still based on their holy books but amended. Stop taking days to mean 24 hours. If you write out "god's" 7 "days" on a transparency, and then write out evolution on another one, they match up. If you divide every one of the ancient guys who "begat" a bunch of people by 13 (lunar cycles per year) they end up living into their 70's thru 90's, old, but....