I wanne ask a tough question???

Question

If evolution is true then why are there different skin colours and why are there so many different religions???

I would love to hear your view point.

I find all your view points very interesting. Keep them coming.

Answer 1

Evolution is still a theory. It will always be a theory.

Answer 2

Skin colors come from several conditions of where people live. But the main influence is DNA, and the traits that are passed on the children from there parents. There are recessive, and strong traits, each child in your own family probably has different color pigmentation.

And religions: they are man made attempts to get comfortable with the teachings of a bible or Koran. But some where, a strong teacher came out with his point of view, and the people either followed him, or chose to follow a different leader. I think people choose a religion over another, because it falls in line what they want, not necessarily what is true in the bible.

Answer 3

Well, every individual is different, no matter what you do. I think that cultures most definitely evolve, and those different cultures brought rise to the different religions. The different skin colors are mostly due to adaptations linked to how much sun we get. Or rather, how much sun our ancestors experienced. Evolution might not be true, but there's an awful lot of evidence for it. Please, don't take this as a blow all the creationists out there. I'm not accusing you of being ignorant. In fact, I happen to believe in intelligent design as well. I, however, do not believe that intelligent design equates to evolution automatically being a falsehood.

Answer 4

There are different skin colors because evolution is true and people in different places around the world (specifically different levels of exposure to the sun and ultra violet light) led to people evolving different skin tones. The darker skin acts as a protection while the lighter skin allows for better absorption of .... I believe it is vitamin D (I could be wrong it may be some other vitamin).


The fact that there are different religions has nothing to do with evolution and much to do with history, culture. There are many different religions for the same reason that there are many different languages.

Answer 5

What you want to know, is the history of the Earth.
You will find this in the 251st Contact notes, via Billy Meier and the Plejarens.
This was easily available on the Internet, but may be harder to locate now? It is very interesting reading, and contains some info about our near future.... etc..

Religion is all about the control and manipulation of the population by the religious establishment(s) through their myths - which are not true, of course.
And so you have to disregard religion because of this - them, being 'spiritual' is just a con/scam job on us...

Answer 6

The first human pair had within their genetic makeup the multiple factors for all the racial differences that we see today. Possibly they themselves were neither white nor black, but mulattoes, or a combination of the colors now found in the various races. An early historical report about humankind says: “They are all a single people with a single language!” (Gen. 11:6, in The Jerusalem Bible) But this abruptly changed.

A large segment of the human family, at that early time in history, desired to remain in one location for religio-political purposes. To thwart this, the Creator suddenly caused these men to speak different languages so that they could not understand one another. Picture what must have taken place.

Unable to communicate as one people, little groups, now isolated by the barrier of language, moved off on their own. As they spread farther afield, distance added another barrier to communication. Isolated by location and by language, the descendants of each group multiplied, and further developed over a period of time the distinct features of their “race?” But these physical features that were passed along from parent to child did not, in any way, make one race superior or inferior to another.—Gen. 11:7-10.

The fact is, these racial differences are actually not very great, as Hampton L. Carson writes in Heredity and Human Life: “The paradox which faces us is that each group of humans appears to be externally different yet underneath these differences there is fundamental similarity.”

Answer 7

I think that human appearance varies because our ancestors genetically adapted to different environments via the evolutionary process. It is hard to generalize here without sounding biased, but look at it this way. Some Africans have a gene responsible for sickle cell anemia, which protects against the malaria in the region but is useless elsewhere. If you take a light skinned European who is used to a cold climate and place them on an extremely sunny spot on the globe (such as Africa), they have a higher rate of skin cancer than their dark skinned counterparts. The rates of skin cancer in Australia are much higher in the recent European ancestors than in the Aborigines. We are all essentially human, though. We haven't been genetically isolated long enough to become a new species.

As for religions, I presume we have so many because groups were socially and culturally isolated from one another. People also have a tendency to create stories to explain the world and the meaning in their lives -- some kind of supernatural belief is found in virtually every culture of the world, though there are some atheists like myself.

P.S. It also looks like the fundamentalists have crashed your party. Sorry about them. :-)

Answer 8

The fact remains that we as humans don't know where we came or where we are going which is why religion and theories of evolution abound. We can guess all we want and call it science or we can imagine that some higher power created us in his liking. No matter what you choose to believe or not believe, there is one thing we all need to do: keep asking questions. And as far as different "races" are concerned, I think people vary in skin color as a direct result of a particular environment over time. They have evolved, adapted, whatever you may call it. It's quite simple.

Answer 9

Skin colour evolved as a response to ultra violet light. At the extremes we have the tropical peoples (Africans, Sth American Indians, Polynesians) who are exposed to hi UV, therefore their skin produces more pigment (melanin) to protect them. People from higher latitudes (nordics, Brits) aren't exposed to as much UV so they don't require as much pigment and are therefore more pale. That is adaptation to local environments - a cornerstone of evolution.

As for religion, it's not really a trait that evolution selects for or against. It's a belief system with no evolutionary significance.

And in answer to Broken Planet: who said other apes haven't evolved? The forms we see today are not ancestral.

Answer 10

Do all dogs have the same coloured fur?

Why can't all birds fly?

Why do all mammals give birth to live young except for the Platypus?

My point is that animals living in different conditions adapt and EVOLVE differently. (some) Fish that live in the black depths of the ocean don't have eyes because they would be useless to them in a sunless environment. Penguins can't fly because in the areas they live the only food is in the water, therefore they need to be able to swim, not fly.

The different skin colours and races are the proof that evolution exists and is happening.

Answer 11

different skin colors are evolutionary changes of humans, who first appeared in Africa, and were all with black skin.
when humans migrated to different climate zones, with less radiation from the sun, they evolved to have lighter skin colors, since protection from the sun was less required and the need to absorb sun rays to produce vitamin D in the body was enhanced.
The variety of religions is a result of social evolution/ competition and not biological evolution, you could ask the same about supermarket chains, or fast food stores,or languages.