If we are all descendants of Noah and his family, then why are there different races of people?

Answer 1

The flood story is fiction, as can be seen by anyone with a shovel and the ability to count: the annual layers of the Antarctic ice cap go back millions of years. Races arose by evolution; people spread from the original African locale to both Europe and Asia some tens of thousands of years ago, and were thereafter separated by distance and by calamities such as ice ages. Separation of population allows differential evolution, and that is why you see different races today.

Answer 2

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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"http://www.answersingenesis.org"

Answer 3

Depends on who you talk to...
Most modern Christian denominations accept the idea of micro-evolution, as in the body can and does adapt to different climates, with the changes that come with micro-evolution you could explain genetically defects, skin color, eye position and a myriad of other racial traits

According to many racists, the "curse" put upon Ham in the book of Genesis 9:20-27 explains why some people are black or Middle-eastern

Whose to say everyone on the ark was one race?

Certain Christian denominations see Adam & Eve, Jonah and the Whale and Noahs Ark as parables, not to be taken literally, but more on a figurative basis, thus evolution and the bible can go hand in hand

Answer 4

It's called evolution. I do not believe in a common ancestery of all liveing organisms, but the fact that human DNA has gone through changes cannot be escaped, whatever the cause may be.

This added to the fact that Noah's three son's had wives with different genetic makeups gives us plenty of DNA for the diversity of the human race.

Answer 5

As people started to explore the land, and split apart from one another, mutations in our dna occurred. The different mutations and groups of these people are called haplogroups. I have heard that different races of people happened because of the different climates. Although, I have heard some that think it was a result of their dna mutations :/

Answer 6

It won't ever make sense if all your relying on is Noah.

There are different races of ppl b/c of admixing (interracial breeding), climate, & genetic mutations.

And there is definitely more than one race.

Answer 7

Check out the Tower of Babel as recorded in Genesis, and what happened there.

Answer 8

Just look at the family of your grandfather or some of your friends who has a big family you will understand all.

Answer 9

i didnt know i was a desendant of noahs family !!!!! he wasnt on our family tree or nothing. unless he was one of the nuts that fell off

Answer 10

Apparently his three sons - Ham, Shem and Japeth had wives which were of different races. They were on the boat also.