Here's my point: If Adam and Eve were Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, would you get Denzel Washington, Mr. Miyagi, Geronimo, or Gandhi over the course of a few thousand years? Of course not!!
Of course I'm assuming Adam and Eve were Caucasian -- the same could be said if they were black (Don't forget I'd be happy to make the same comparison if Adam and Eve were black, or asian ok? I'm not racist)
2007-11-04 05:58:29 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
People listen up. Skin color and physical features don't change in a few thousand years. You could put 1000 Irishmen into Kenya for 1000 years, and they'd all look like Irishmen.
2007-11-04 06:24:42 · update #1
read the scripture............all of it..........and you will have your answer
2007-11-04 06:02:05 · answer #1 · answered by hghostinme 6 · 0⤊ 5⤋
I would say yes. Humans are like other animals in that we adapt. As the sons and daughters of Adam and Even spread across the planet they adapted. Notice how all Caucasians do not look like alike. Spaniards and Swedes and Slavs are all Caucasian, but in such a tiny portion of the planet they can appear very different. Now take a look at the whole globe and how spread out people are, it is safe to say that after several thousand years you could come up with different skin colors, hair types and external characters. Heat, sunlight, humidy, water, diet, and living quarters have great affects on the weight, height, skin tone of 1 person in their life. Now multiply that hundreds of times. Biologically Denzel and Tom are 99.99999999% the same. How thin is your skin. Take a razor and run it against your white skin. You will see red before you get very deep. And, that is the same color we are beneath our skin. Which is many times thinner than a piec of paper.
2016-04-02 04:29:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the idea is the as people moved across the Earth and settled, their bodies began to adapt to their surroundings. As time went on generation after generation began to change to better their chances of survival in their new environment until we now have people who have very little melanin, people who have a great deal, people who are shorter, some who are taller etc. etc.
Isn't this idea pretty much common knowledge?
Edit:
I think I mentioned it in an earlier question, but it is actually difficult if not impossible to get a Mormon to answer a question about their religion's attitudes towards race in an open and straight forward manner. Interesting.
We aren't actually speaking of one or two thousand years, we are talking about hundreds of thousands of years. Do you really believe after so many generations of Irish people living in Kenya that they would still be pale fair-haired people???
2007-11-04 06:21:26 · answer #3 · answered by jennette h 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you just trying to make a point, or would you actually like an answer? If the latter, feel free to email me, and I will tell you what the Lord's prophets and scripture have said concerning the differences between the races.
Love and Peace.
2007-11-04 06:25:51 · answer #4 · answered by MumOf5 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's why there are people that don't go the church. There are too many things that can't be explained. There will never be any concrete answers because there is no one alive today that was alive when Adam and Eve were supposedly on Earth.
2007-11-04 06:05:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Everyone who reads the Bible knows all people didn't come from Adam and Eve
2007-11-04 06:03:15 · answer #6 · answered by M-S 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure about Asians but , African Americans skin color (pigment) is from the sun . Their skin became darker to protect them from the hot sun . They adapted to their surroundings .
2007-11-04 06:10:45 · answer #7 · answered by Andy J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the tower of Babel was being built with the human desire to be closer to God, He scattered all people to the ends of the earth. Then and there, as depicted in the Bible, mankind was given different tongues (languages). At this moment, I would understand that the colors were also brought into existance.
2007-11-04 06:09:49 · answer #8 · answered by Jen G 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Adam was black and Eve was Asian? God cursed their children for their sins by turning them Caucasian?
2007-11-04 06:06:10 · answer #9 · answered by 自由思想家 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
within the Adam/Eve myth itself, Cain asks about other people (at a time when there would theoretically be only three people alive).
Therefore, the Adam and Even story is a creation myth for the Hebrew people, not all of humanity.
2007-11-04 06:03:54 · answer #10 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You dummy.
You are trying to throw a scientific thing into a religious question and you didnt even get the science part right!
They have traced all of mankind to a common ancestor and even have a pretty good idea of where it started
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
(surprisingly it started close to where the garden of eden is supposed to have been but that might be a coincidence)
2007-11-04 06:09:33 · answer #11 · answered by ????? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋