IF the bible is true, How did we get diffrent races?

Question

Ok, so in the book "The Bible" it states that Adam and Eve were the first "Man". If they were, lets say, White, how did we get diffrent races, such as African Americans, asians, hispanics, ect?

I understand they had 2 sons, Able and Cain. And Cain had Enoch. Enoch had Irad and so on......

So, how did the races come about?

Answer 1

He made Adam and Eve with the ability to have a numerous variety of different people. They were what is called maloto or a mixture of all races. Maybe not as distinct as we have today. But remember we started out with two medium size dogs. Now we have great danes and Mexican chawawa's.
If you don't believe the bible then Evolution rather than adaptation is even stranger where we all came from poly wogs and frogs climbing out of the swamp.
I know of a family that just in my life time breed horses to get a really small horse. Only breeding the tinest ones to each other. Now they have a horse that is the size of a large dog.
Pit bulls were made not born. They have been bred to fight since time began and they cannot be anything but a killer.
The most vicious were bred to create even more vicious.
Adatation plays a part. Dark skin has more melonin in their skin which protects them from skin cancer. But in cold climates where they don't have the rays of the hot sun they cannot absorbe vitamin D from the sun. Where the white skin does well because it has no problem absorbeing vitamin D. And the cold climate actually is better protection for them from getting skin cancer.
It is like in England when they had many colored moths.
but the coal smoke darkened the buildings and in time only had black moths. why? The light colored ones were easy seen by birds that like to eat moths. That is called adaptation. Not evolution because they were still moths.
It is just that the black ones were able to survive.

Answer 2

Um, respectfully, no.

First of all The twelve tribes has nothing to do with Adam and eve, but I will say some races came from them. Also, Remember the story about Abraham having to sacrifice Issac, Muslims believe it was Issac's brother, their ancestor, another split.

Also, who said that Adam and eve only had the two sons? how else would there be more people if there weren't at least two daughters. They had many children, one of note was Seth, not Enoch. Stories and tradition have it that Cain was cast out and his descendants are the "dark skinned" Race from Africa.

Genesis 5 goes into a brief genealogy. First Adam, then Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, and then Enoch. At which time this particular line stopped because God took Enoch, his family, and city because they were very righteous. The point is that over thousands of years some groups broke from others, developed their own culture, and soon there own race. Or they were "cast out" and "cursed" as a culture. All starting from Adam until today.

Answer 3

Whether or not the Bible is factual doesn't really matter in this instance. Humans are, and always have been, a nomadic species. Over time, as our ancestors moved in search of herds and such and spread out, we developed different traits to survive in different lands. People in very sunny areas developed higher levels of pigmentation and darker eyes as protection from the sun. Those in colder climes tended to lighter shading to absorb what light they could in less sunny places. There is also genetic shift as the result of socially desirable traits. Those who had the "popular" traits were more likely to mate and, therefore, those traits would be carried on while undesirable traits would NOT mate as often, eventually becoming recessive and less common.

In short, there is an environmental reason for our genetic differences.

Answer 4

The Bible says they had "Many sons and daughters".
God loves variety. Look at all the things around us.
Different races are still human, just different looks and hues.
Created perfect, so would be their DNA. That DNA would have all the needed qualities for all the races.

Today, we are farther from perfection. Even though it rarely does happen for parents of one race to give birth to a child of another race, it does happen! Mostly black and white siblings to parents of the same race.

Answer 5

Catholics don't believe in a totally literal interpretation of the Bible, but even the theory of evolution says there was a common ancestor at the bottom of the branch so to speak. Either Biblically or through evolution the answer is the same. Physical separation of groups of people who then experienced genetic drift.

Answer 6

As for the language differences, that is explained clearly in the Bible. There is not a whole lot of difference between men and women of the races we see today. Hair color and texture, skin tone? You think that is large enough to account for another explanation? It is the same for all animals. They breed naturally after their own kind. The small changes are not that unusual. I've seen families where two of the parents are short but one of their kids is much taller than what you'd think is normal. I found out that there were other members of the family, possibly even grandparents, who were tall. My kids have traits that are different from both me and my wife but those traits are traceable to our family tree.

Man is man. Dogs are dogs, etc. "After their own kind"

Answer 7

There is only one race, the human race, but to answer your question concerning our skin color based differences, I believe that over time people covered the Earth and based on their dfferent environments, their skin color changed to adapt to their surroundings, humans, like any mammal have bodies made to adapt to their surroundings, now, why do some cultures have different shaped heads (english vs egyptian, etc) I don't know or why do Asian people have what appears to be slanted eyes, I don't know, but the skin color explanation is an easier question to answer, hope this helps.

Answer 8

Souppose different sons lived in different parts and thro time dfirted apart, having different cultures, but in essence being from the same family, doesnt the bible say we are all brothers ans sisters?
Plus its a book written to help humans understand creation of the universe, at a time when science was not popular like today

Answer 9

properly for people who have confidence it replaced into evolution attempt returned. have you ever gotten a sunlight tan? What got here approximately? You spent too plenty time interior the sunlight and it replaced the pigment of your epidermis temporarily. What in case you lived in Africa and for hundreds of years you and your toddlers lived interior the sunlight? you does not evolve yet you may adapt and finally your epidermis might get darker. So Adam and Eve have been the 1st 2 those that God created and placed on earth. Their shade isn't ordinary. yet as human beings populated diverse parts of the earth their actual visual charm got here approximately as they tailored to their atmosphere. Differennt languages got here from the tower of babel (Genesis 11:9) For the guy who stated Hebrew potential human beings in Hebrew they're incorrect it replaced into the call of an ancestor of Abraham (Eber). Abraham replaced into the 1st Hebrew called such because of the fact of his ancestor it replaced into not Adam and Eve.

Answer 10

Pigmentation of the skin for one. If you stay out in the sun long enough, you'll get crispy! If you aren't in the sun, you'll be pale. Ever wonder why people in Africa dark and those in Siberia, white. Sun!