What race were Adam and Eve?

Question

If they were white, how are there different races? If they were black, how are there white people?

Answer 1

According to the Bible, all people today descended from the survivors of a great Flood - Noah's family, who in turn descended from Adam and Eve (Gen 1:11). There are many stories, from many parts of the world, of a great Flood that only several people survived to repopulate the earth.
But today we have many different groups, often called "races" with what seem to be greatly differing features. The most obvious of these is skin color. Some see this as a reason to doubt the Bible's record of history. They believe that the various groups could have arisen only by evolving separately over tens of thousands of years. However, this does not follow from the evidence.
The Bible tells us how the population that descended from Noah's family had one language and were living together and disobeying God's command to "fill the earth" (Gen 9:1, 11:4). God confused their language, causing a break-up of the population into smaller groups, which scattered over the earth (Gen. 11:8-9). Modern genetics shows how, following such a break-up of a population, variations in skin color, for example, can develop in only a few generations. And there is good evidence to show that the various groups of people we have today have NOT been separated for huge periods of time.
One could say there is really only one race - the human race. The Bible teaches us that God has "made from one blood all nations of men" (Acts 17:26. Scripture distinguishes people by tribal or national groupings, not by skin color or physical features. Clearly, though, there are groups of people, who have certain features (e.g. skin color) in common, which distinguish them from other groups. We prefer to call these "people groups" rather than "races," to avoid the evolutionary and racist connotations that have become associated with the word "race."
All peoples can intermarry and produce fertile offspring. This shows that the biological differences between the "races" are not great. In fact, the DNA differences are trivial. The DNA of any two people in the world would typically differ by just 0.2%. Of this, only 6% can be linked to racial categories; the rest is "within race" variation.
This genetic unity means, for instance, that white Americans, although ostensibly far removed from black Americans in phenotype, can sometimes be better tissue matches for them than other black Americans.
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Answer 2

All we really know about race is that they were Human. The different races did not evolve for hundreds of years later. We are told about Adam and Eve, but this is not to say that in other parts of the world, God created other humans of different races. No where in the Bible( and correct me someone if I am wrong) do I know of it saying that all humans were from Adam and Eve. It only says that they were the first. This would account for the marriage of Adam and Eves children, as to where their spouses came from. I hope this helps.

Answer 3

Well, I knew a couple, both of them looked like they were from mixed decent. But their four natural born children looked completely different. One looked white. One looked black. One looked spanish, and the other Indian.

Adam and Eve were probably mixed, but we'll never know for sure...

Answer 4

G-D said let us make man in our image, no one knows what color they were in the beginning, and it wasn't important enough for G-D to specify what color they were. They say if you believe in evolution that man started in Africa and as they moved across the lands into less hot climate their skin became lighter to absorb the vitamins we need from the sun, also in the bible it says ( the sun has darkened my skin), so they could have been lighter and darkened because of the hot sun. Creationism or Evolution you have to decide what to believe.

Answer 5

Human.

If you are questioning ethnicity, I suspect that ethnicity may have developed after the flood. And possibly as people migrated to the lands and climates all over the planet.

Other than that guess, I do not know.

Answer 6

Human

Answer 7

Genetics girl! They were human. Everyone knows that human beings have a common ancestor. Both evolutionists and creationists will agree on that. The original people had the genetic info for all of the variation we see today. Natural selection took care of the rest, with lots of help from other factors of course.

Answer 8

They were human, the diffrent races didn't come around untill the tower of Babel when God changed their languages, and spread them to all the corners of the earth.

Answer 9

Jews, God chosen people
The Tower of Babel when God confused their languages , they were trying to build a tower to Heaven

Answer 10

Adam was Hungarian. Eve was from Puerto Rico.