Since the fundies don't believe in evolution, then "god" must have created the different races. Why did .....

Question

..."god" create different races of humans? Why isn't the "creation" of all the different races mentioned in the bible? What race was Adam and Eve, and why do they rate the only mention of human creation in the bible?

Blessed: Give me the verses in genesis that mention the creation of Asians, American Indians, and Hispanics. Thanking you in advance....

mel: How about you answer my question first, huh???

Answer 1

Expect some pap about the "mark" that Joe Hovah put upon Cain for killing his brother was that he made him black....

Answer 2

First off we define race as the coloration of skin and physical features. God created two humans. Coloration and certain physical features are deturmined by where on this earth you live. Descendants in Africa developed thick hair and darker skin due to the sun in that area. People of the Artic climate tend to be shorter and stockier to hold warmth and brown skinned because of the sun's rays that reflect off the ice and can harm the skin. Once Adam and Eve's descendants migrated to other places these features developed over time. Race isnt created. God only created Adam and Eve. now your next YAHOO ANSWERS question should be "when did humans disperse in order to develop these characteristics?" which I can also answer.

Answer 3

"There is really only one race—the human race. The Bible teaches us that God has ‘made of one blood all nations of men’ (Acts 17:26). Scripture distinguishes people by tribal or national groupings, not by skin color or physical appearance. 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 connotations associated with the word ‘race.’

All peoples can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. This shows that the biological differences between the ‘races’ are not very great. In fact, the DNA differences are trivial. The DNA of any two people in the world would typically differ by just 0.2 percent. Of this, only 6 percent can be linked to racial categories; the rest is ‘within race’ variation.

Anthropologists generally classify people into a small number of main racial groups, such as the Caucasoid (European or ‘white’), the Mongoloid (which includes the Chinese, Inuit or Eskimo and Native Americans), the ******* (black Africans), and the Australoid (the Australian Aborigines). Within each classification, there may be many different sub-groups.

Virtually all evolutionists would now say that the various people groups did not have separate origins. That is, different people groups did not each evolve from a different group of animals. So they would agree with the biblical creationist that all people groups have come from the same original population. Of course, they believe that such groups as the Aborigines and the Chinese have had many tens of thousands of years of separation. Most believe that there are such vast differences between the groups that there had to be many years for these differences to develop.

One reason for this is that many people believe that the observable differences arise from some people having unique features in their hereditary make-up which others lack. This is an understandable but incorrect idea. Let’s look at skin color, for instance. It is easy to think that since different groups of people have ‘yellow’ skin, ‘red’ skin, ‘black’ skin, ‘white’ skin and ‘brown’ skin, there must be many different skin pigments or colorings. And since different chemicals for coloring would mean a different genetic recipe or code in the hereditary blueprint in each people group, it appears to be a real problem. How could all those differences develop within a short time?

However, we all have the same coloring pigment in our skin—melanin. This is a dark-brownish pigment that is produced in different amounts in special cells in our skin. If we had none (as do people called albinos, who inherit a mutation-caused defect, and cannot produce melanin), then we would have a very white or pink skin coloring. If we produced a little melanin, we would be European white. If our skin produced a great deal of melanin, we would be a very dark black. And in between, of course, are all shades of brown. There are no other significant skin pigments.

In summary, from currently available information, the really important factor in determining skin color is melanin—the amount produced."

For the full article, go to this link:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Area/AnswersBook/races18.asp

Answer 4

God doesn`t claim to have created all the races.
Genisis only refers to the creation of the newest form of man. Called a mankind.
Genesis does however refer to older races.
The mighty men of old.
The giants
The unnamed who would kill Caine
The daughters of man

God makes no clain to have made or created these peoples in any part of the bible. He only claims to have created Adam and made Eve. The two origional blood group "B", possibly containing the same gene structure as the gorilla, with whom they share blood sugars.

Answer 5

It is actually described in the Tower of Babel Story... for the record, the mark of Cain was not black skin. It does not say that anywhere. Sounds a little racist to me. Easy question though. Read the Bible.

Answer 6

A better question would be why did we not all evolve into the same life form. How can you possible explain how life started from nothing, but ended up with the billions and billions of variates of life. Logic says if you have a working plan stick with it, not go off. What is so fit as in survival of the fittest about a butter fly, or a simple Calla Lilly? nothing, so why have they survived as you would say the millions and billions of years with ice ages, droughts, floods etc? I would love to hear your explanation of that.

Answer 7

I think it's mentioned in the Tower of Babel part in the Old Testament.

Answer 8

Adam and Eve - not for sure.

They came from Noah's sons

* Ham, forefather of the southern peoples (Hamitic Africa)
* Shem, forefather of the middle peoples (Semitic Arabia)
* Japheth, forefather of the northern peoples (Japhetic Europe)

EVERYONE on earth are descendants of these three brothers

Answer 9

Read Genesis Chapter 10, that's where you will find the table of nations.

Answer 10

I'm still trying to figure out if I am a "fundie" or just a person. Do you have a "you know you are a fundie if..." list, I can check off?