If man came from Adam, why do we have so many different races nowadays? differences in skin, eye, hair color?

Question

Christians don't(or don't want) to believe in evolution despite its overwhelming evidence. If every man came from Adam, then how is it that we have so many different races nowadays? Just look at the variation in skin color, hair color, bone structures and etc., (note that these differences are apparent right from birth). If evolution doesn't exist, then how would these differences be possible? People's skin color change when exposed to the sun, but note that africans are black since BIRTH! There is no way that Adam&Eve could co-exist with evolution. So how do you christians explain this? Noah's children who spread out came from the same parents so their skin color must've been the same. So how did the variations come about, if it weren't for evolution? Animals also show traces of evolution how they slowly adapt to their nature.

Answer 1

That's why we didn't came from a mythical man. The story of Babel only talks about languages, nothing about skin color/race.

Answer 2

I think some people might argue that minor mutations are different than speciation. A black person and a white person can make babies together just fine; the differences are little enough that they can still produce perfectly functional offspring. I don't know that anyone with more brains than a rock is aruging about whether mutations occur and certain traits are selected for in certain populations. Human beings have managed to breed wolves until we got the toy poodle. The issue is more "How did the species that exist today come to be?" Although a toy poodle can still theoretically have babies with a wolf, a human just can't breed with a cauliflower because we have a different number of chromosomes and different arrangement of the genes that we do share, even if we could get past the other hurdles. I think THAT is what the creationists (Note- this does not include me) take issue with.

Answer 3

Good points.

I also wondered about Cain and Able. When Cain killed Able, it was mentioned that he would be harmed by the people living outside of the garden.

Where did these people come from? If Adam and Eve were the first people, and Cain and Able were their children, where the heck did these outsiders come from? Mexico?

Don't get me started about Noah. There's no way a wooden ship, could be built to the dimensions laid out in the bible and survive all that time out at sea. Also the size Ark mentioned in the bible, would find it impossible to house all the aniimal pairs, to repopulate the earth.

Answer 4

Genesis 11:9

Answer 5

OK first off lots of scientific evidence of evolution is junk. Because if you notice scientists say that animals they evolve and what they evolve from die off, so technically there shouldn't be any monkeys, and there should also be more 'missing links' around.
And I don't rebuke evolution except from animal to animal. I believe people can adapt to different situations. For example black people to become black to help with protection from the sun.

And as for why they changed, read the story in the Bible (Genesis) of the Tower of Babel. It'll explain everything.

Answer 6

For all the ignorant people, if you have ever been anywhere you would know that the asians eyes are tight because of the high cold winds that has been hitting there face for generations. For, the blacks they became the way they are because they settled in Africa (in the high heat) at the beginning of time. Go read a book and stop playing X BOX!!!

Answer 7

I blame the birth of the blues. I believe there is true scientific evidence that there were no caucassions before the blues. And no true black people after the blues.
You have only to look at the evidence.

And you will see, that black people were truly black before the blues and that white people were truly white.
After the blues, the two, heh, wait a minute....

I need MORE rum, what was your question?

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Answer 8

Maybe when the bible was written, the authors hadn't come across a black person or people of different skin colours. They probably thought the book wouldn't last as long as it has.
The bible is just a story and not truth to live your whole life by.
Evolution is the reason why there are many different races of people.

Answer 9

Actually the different races came from Noahs Sons

Answer 10

After the flood, Well, just read the scriptures:

The story is found in Genesis 11:1-9 as follows:

1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 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 builded. 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 (confusion); 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.

Answer 11

The story of Adam & Eve is anything but the truth. When members of the same family have children, the offspring are always born with genetic defects like sterility and Mongolism(Down Syndrome). If you want proof, marry your cousin and have children.