SolomonVII
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Oh I am sure that is not the point he was making.Are you saying that dark skin color is a corruption of God's design?
Whatever the reasons for skin colour differentiation, I am very confident that the point that he is making is that the post-Fall corruption is a moral one, and involves people using skin colour as an excuse to dehumanize people of other tribes.
As far as I know the reasons for different skin colour tone are due to both environmental adaptations and social ones. Lighter skin tones allow for the retention of more Vitamin D in areas where the amount of sunlight becomes a factor. As well, the sexual preferences of people when it comes to appearance have a way of selecting different physical features in populations as well.
In terms of the Bible, differentiation between people served God in actually preventing the group-consciousness and group-think that developed in the building of the tower of Babel. It is an interesting meditation point as to why God did not really want the kind of massive group cooperation that developed in the technological feat of the construction of the Tower of Babel, but the reason that God created diversity about people was to prevent that kind of mass communication and cooperation in a venture such as that.
Morally speaking, the differentiation of people was a result of God imposing diversity on the people of Babel.
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