Question:
Question for religious people who believe in Adam/Eve being first humans?
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2014-03-28 00:42:36 UTC
If Adam and Eve are the first humans and we all come from one race as the Christians, religious would believe; how did we get Asians, Indians, Africans, Aboriginals and etc?

Some said it was caused by the sun but I don't see how living in a sun or shade will cause your skin and your children to turn completely black or completely different - no offence. The SAME is for those who believe that we all came from an ape-like ancestor: those apes then were dark skinned.

What about a religious creationist that believes in a 6,000 year old earth? How did we get all the races in only 6,000 years? Some say it was curses by God - yeah I know how racist is that! But I am just stating what others believe.. but how did we get so many races and differences?
Twelve answers:
Happy Peanut
2014-03-28 00:59:51 UTC
Presumably race became a thing at the sundering at the Tower of Babel. It couldn't have come before that, because as you stated, humanity came from 2 people. Then all but 8 died, so whatever genetic diversity there was was reduced to a genome that had any of these things actually occurred, would have a much more than 99.99% similarity between persons. Also, 8 people are not a viable genome, so we should be (and maybe are? You know how theologies change at the drop of a hat) extinct.



Of course, all the animals off the ark, instead of going extinct immediately upon exit, rather super-evolved, to the tune of 11 new species a day for 4000 years according to Bill Nye, or, according to me, however many thousands of species per day it would have taken to reach current levels of diversity by the time 8 people turned into 150,000,000. I say that, because you'd think someone would have noted all these new species popping up-- no one did; my answer is that some sort of super-massive birthing took place in the time it took humans to populate the earth. Not more than 500 or so years.



So yeah... Tower of Babel. And maybe somebody got cursed to be Armenian at some point.
Judy
2014-03-28 16:29:02 UTC
It doesn't take very long for genetic information to be expressed in offspring - only a few generations. Adam and Eve were most certainly not white in appearance - they carried all the genetic information for the races which developed (and therefore the most dominant were expressed in their phenomes - they were probably dark skinned and brown-eyed).



Not a hard question if you understand a little about genetics.



A 6000 year old earth is also not a problem. When you consider the chaos the flood would have caused - deep chasms, craters and valleys were carved out fairly quickly. Nothing in observable science is in conflict with a young earth world view.
?
2014-03-28 01:09:36 UTC
A race is simply one of the partially isolated gene pools into which the human species came to be divided during and following its early geographical spread. Roughly one race has developed on each of the five major continental areas of the earth. Man did indeed diverge genetically during this phase of history and we can measure and study the results of this divergence in what remains today of the old geographical races. As we would expect, divergence appears to be correlated with the degree of isolation. When race formation took place on the continents, with the bottlenecking of thousands of populations in isolated gene pools all over the world, the gene-frequency differences we now see were established. The paradox which faces us is that each group of humans appears to be externally different yet underneath these differences there is fundamental similarity.



The two records of genealogy surrounding the account of the Flood—chapters 5 and 10—connect the entire human race with the first man, Adam, through Noah’s three sons. Assyrians, Chaldeans, Hebrews, Syrians, and some Arabian tribes, are descendants of Shem. Ethiopians, Egyptians, Canaanites, and some African and Arabian tribes descended from Ham. Indo-Europeans are descendants of Japheth. All humans are related, and all are born equal before God. (Acts 17:26) If only this truth affected how we view and treat each other..



Discoveries in genetics have confirmed the fallacy of racism. Researchers studying people from different continents have found that the differences in DNA between any two randomly chosen individuals from virtually anywhere in the world amounted to about 0.5 percent. And 86 to 90 percent of those differences occurred within any one racial group. Therefore, just 14 percent or less of the 0.5 percent variation occurred between racial groups.



Because humans are genetically homogeneous, genetics can and should be an important tool in helping to both illuminate and defuse the race issue.
Joanna
2014-03-28 03:09:21 UTC
If Adam was "white" and Eve was "black", or vice versa, or if both of them were medium brown, then some of their kids would be "white" and some "black" and some brown, In just two generations, Adam and Eve being the first generation, you would have all the "races." Same thing with all the other "racial" characteristics. Which of course is why "racism" is so dumb. First off, there's only one race, the human race, and we're all related. So people who are "racist" are prejudiced against people who basically are genetically just like them. They're prejudiced against their own relatives, distant relatives perhaps, but still relatives.
2014-03-28 00:53:54 UTC
Come on now, it is the sun.... My own skin becomes lighter in the winter and darker in the summer. If one is constantly around one particular climate, their bodies will adapt. What is totally bizarre is people actually think that we evolved from bacteria and chimpanzees and crap. That doesn't make a lick of sense. Especially since no other species evolved from apes that come even close to the superiority and intellect of a human being. It's obvious humans were created by God with His image.



Btw, Adam and Eve were black. It was lack of sunlight that made individuals lighter.
Dcl102a
2014-03-30 00:04:04 UTC
The serious answers in this are quite ludicrous. Specifically, we have Judy, the great geneticist, who insists that the Earth is 6000 years old. Every science has proved that to be false from astronomy to zoology.
Gregory
2014-03-28 02:06:23 UTC
how did we get Asians, Indians, Africans, Aboriginals and etc?

their human beings like everybody else



god changed man at the tower of babel



skin color is only a genetic dna marker
2014-03-28 02:22:22 UTC
Race has no genetic basis. Not one characteristic, trait or even gene distinguishes all the members of one so-called race from all the members of another so-called race.
2014-03-28 01:55:27 UTC
through loss of genetic information
2014-03-28 00:47:02 UTC
Genesis, is not literal.
Hirohito
2014-03-28 00:45:12 UTC
easy. Its made up
Lighting the Way to Reality
2014-03-28 01:04:14 UTC
The story of Adam and Eve is just ancient Hebrew myth, and the races did not take the last 6000 years to appear. They have been in existence for a lot longer than that.



The races developed from a group of early humans who left Africa several tens of thousands of years ago. As they spread out and entered different environments in their migrations, they adapted by the evolutionary process of natural selection to those environments.



Those who entered what is now northern Europe and western Asia became lighter skinned so they could absorb the ultra-violet light easier from the weaker sun in that area to manufacture vitamin D. These people became the Caucasians.



The people who remained in Africa retained their darker skin and tight-curled hair that protected them from the tropical sun. Because the sun is so strong there, their skin did not have any problem manufacturing vitamin D.



As for the other races. Some of the early group of humans who left Africa eventually entered the east Asian highlands had to contend with the glaring sun on the ice and snow fields (there was still an Ice Age at the time which resulted in mostly year-round winter conditions in that area). The narrow eyes they developed helped to see in the glare (Eskimos made sun shields for their eyes that also used narrow slits for that same purpose). They also developed flattish, fat-padded faces to minimize heat loss. These people became the Orientals who spread out over most of eastern Asia.



An early group of the Orientals that had not yet developed the complete range of oriental features migrated to the New World across the Bering land bridge (which existed at that time because the sea levels were lower as a result of much of the earth's water being tied up in glaciers) and became the American Indians.





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@Love Thy Neighbor, evolution doesn't make sense to you because you don't know squat about it. There is a massive amount of evidence for it if you bother to actually study it instead of mindlessly believing what you find in the Bible and LSoS creationist web sites.





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@Michael, the flood is just another ancient Hebrew myth and never occurred. It is contradicted by both history and the geologic record.



The history of ancient Egypt is well known from their writings and archaeological findings.



"The history of Ancient Egypt spans the period from the early predynastic settlements of the northern Nile Valley to the Roman conquest in 30 BC. The Pharaonic Period is dated from around 3200 BC, when Lower and Upper Egypt became a unified state, until the country fell under Greek rule in 332 BC."



"Between 5500 and 3100 BC, during Egypt's Predynastic Period, small settlements flourished along the Nile, whose delta empties into the Mediterranean Sea. By 3300 BC, just before the first Egyptian dynasty, Egypt was divided into two kingdoms, known as Upper Egypt, Ta Shemau, to the south, and Lower Egypt, Ta Mehu, to the north.[7] The dividing line was drawn roughly in the area of modern Cairo."



"The Old Kingdom is most commonly regarded as spanning the period of time when Egypt was ruled by the Third Dynasty through to the Sixth Dynasty (2686 BC – 2134 BC). The royal capital of Egypt during the Old Kingdom was located at Memphis, where Djoser established his court. The Old Kingdom is perhaps best known, however, for the large number of pyramids, which were constructed at this time as pharaonic burial places. For this reason, the Old Kingdom is frequently referred to as "the Age of the Pyramids." The first notable pharaoh of the Old Kingdom was Djoser (2630–2611 BC) of the Third Dynasty, who ordered the construction of a pyramid (the Step Pyramid) in Memphis' necropolis, Saqqara."



"The Fifth Dynasty began with Userkhaf (starting c. 2495 BC) and was marked by the growing importance of the cult of sun god Ra."



"During the sixth dynasty (2345–2181 BC), the power of pharaohs gradually weakened in favor of powerful nomarchs (regional governors). These no longer belonged to the royal family and their charge became hereditary, thus creating local dynasties largely independent from the central authority of the pharaoh. Internal disorders set in during the incredibly long reign of Pepi II (2278–2184 BC) towards the end of the dynasty."



"By 2160 BC a new line of pharaohs (the Ninth and Tenth Dynasties) consolidated Lower Egypt from their capital in Herakleopolis Magna. A rival line (the Eleventh Dynasty) based at Thebes reunited Upper Egypt and a clash between the two rival dynasties was inevitable. Around 2055 BC the Theban forces defeated the Heracleopolitan Pharaohs, reunited the Two Lands. The reign of its first pharaoh, Mentuhotep II marks the beginning of the Middle Kingdom."



And it continues for long after that.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ancient_Egypt



According to Answers in Genesis:



"Calculated BC date for the Flood: 2348"



http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2012/03/09/feedback-timeline-for-the-flood



So, why weren't the ancient Egyptians drowned in the mythical biblical flood and the pyramids filled with water and mud?





The fact of the matter is that the book of Genesis is myth-based. The ancient Israelites constructed their myths on the basis of their superstitions and the myths and stories of the peoples around them. They got the story of the flood from the mythical epic of Gilgamesh during their Captivity in Mesopotamia, and they modified it to fit their belief in their own god. They also interpreted the vague histories they heard of other peoples, such as the Egyptians, to make them fit into their creation myths to create the "history" of the world as they conceived it.



Of course, since they had no real knowledge of the long-past history of the peoples around them, the myths they constructed frequently conflict with reality. Such is the case with the flood myth and the history of the ancient Egyptians.





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As for the geologic evidence against the flood, see my answer here.



https://answersrip.com/question/index?qid=20130916150318AAZEvH9


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