Adam & Eve are white so how did black, asian, etc. people get here?
2007-12-23 13:59:22 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ok well if they weren't white then how did white people get here????
2007-12-23 14:04:40 · update #1
Why do you assume they were Caucasian? The Garden of Eden is believed to be somewhere in the Middle East, perhaps Iraq. Most likely they were "brown" or "olive" skinned, which has a combination of genes which produce a variety of skin color. You must also keep in mind that the flood wiped out all but 8 people, who again repopulated the earth. So, actually, all humans are descended from Noah and his family.
For a more in depth explanation, go to this link:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Area/AnswersBook/races18.asp
2007-12-23 14:08:46 · answer #1 · answered by BrotherMichael 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Scripture does not indicate they were white.
The process whereby different skin colors, eye shape, etc, resulted is called adaptation, which is not the same as evolution.
The closer to the equator one lives, the darker the skin due to adaption of closeness to sun producing more melanin which is a skin pigment all humans have (save albinos due to an inherited mutation).
Regarding races, there is minimal difference in race:
Racial characteristics are only minor variations among people groups. Scientists have found that if one were to take any 2 people from anywhere in the world, the basic genetic differences between these two people would typcially be around 0.2% --- even if they came from the same people group! Furthermore, these "so-called racial differences such as skin color, eye shape, etc, account for only 6% of this 0.2% difference genetically.
Overall, there is actually MORE variations within any one group than between 2 or more different groups.
The source below is the best book I have found regarding human race; it takes the biblical foundation and links scientific evidence.
Sweetie, don't be intimated by philosophy's sarcasm. Some people like to add insult, I don't know why, but keep asking questions and eventually you will find the answers.
2007-12-24 00:29:05 · answer #2 · answered by Micheala #1 Fan of WDPLM-2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Way to go Royal Racer. It is refreshing to see someone that actually knows the truth.
God created the races on the 6th day. Rested on the 7th day. He later saw He there was no man to till the Earth, so He created 'Ha-Adam' meaning THE Adam, or THE Man, and then Eve from Adam's DNA, which is the arc, or better known in the scientific community, the curve, which is DNA.
There was two thousand years between each of the 1-8 day creations. 2 Peter 3 starting with verse 8 documents the time frame, it only takes common sense from this information.
2 Peter 3:8–9 reads:
‘But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.’
2007-12-23 22:37:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve weren't white.
Skin color is just an adaptation of environment.
Lighter skin tones fair better in environments that don't get too hot, or they burn. "White people" originated in Europe, where it doesn't get too hot.
In places that gets more direct sunlight, like Central America and North Africa, for example, people's skin color adapted. The original peoples of those lands have darker skin because it does not burn in the extreme heat they live in.
It has nothing to do with Adam and Eve.
2007-12-23 22:34:12 · answer #4 · answered by its_victoria08 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OMG .Are you the future of America? Good thing I have a passport. Now all I need is a work Visa.
Go to school. A REAL school, and they will tell you how people of different races EVOLVED and migrated across the earth. Your teachers may even shock you by telling you that the first humans were probably black and that the different races EVOLVED over millennia in accordance with genetic selection and the geographic environments that they were living in. (Hopefully you are not planning to grow up to be a rocket scientist or a physician or anything like that. God help us.)
2007-12-23 23:05:26 · answer #5 · answered by philosophyangel 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Read about The Tower of Babel.
Also, most scholars and biblical historians don't believe Adam/Eve were white.
2007-12-23 22:02:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Changes in weather e.g., lack of exposure to Sun and excessive exposure to Sun over cumulative time do affect the colour of humans and animals even now and the effect of cumulative dose over a long time altering the genes is a point to study
2007-12-23 22:12:23 · answer #7 · answered by chuppkaychuppkay 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who says they were white?
Actually, the people who study such things did try to learn what skin color they had. To contain all the genetic codes for all the races, they speculated they must have had olive skin tones.
The races all came from three basic race types, all with common DNA.
2007-12-23 22:11:56 · answer #8 · answered by grnlow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve were white?
2007-12-23 22:02:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Shhhh - the bible does mention, although slightly, that there are other people outside of the garden of eden and should not be bothered with.
How else would you expain Adam's first wife Lilith.
2007-12-23 22:10:06 · answer #10 · answered by m_knobel 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋