Where do the different races of the world come from?
honest question,
Gideon
honest question,
Gideon
Today at 08:42 PM Hesmyall said this in Post #8
I think that the different races came about because of the tower of Bable. When God confused the people's language, they of course had to gather in groups that could understand each other. These groups probably lived in different areas with the people they were able to communicate with. This led to the difference in skin color among people. Those people who lived in warmer climates developed darker skin while those who lived in colder climates developed lighter skin.
Yesterday at 08:28 PM seebs said this in Post #11
A few creationist sites have tried to make it work by having a very odd representation of genetic material on the ark, but consider that the three sons are all going to have only genetic material from Noah and his wife, so we only have five people's worth of genetic material with which to get all these different groups... It's not very plausible.
seebs said:L_C, that's a common claim, but it's bad reasoning; the same argument would say that "species" is entirely illusory, since there's so much variance within a species, and so little between species - say, humans and chimps, who have IMMENSE amounts of DNA in common.
The fact is, you can check for racial groups the same way you can check for sickle-cell anemia, or eye color, or skin color, or any of hundreds of other fairly simple traits. Often, the answer is "a bit of everything", but you can check for the traits, they're in the genes, just like everything else.
Gideon4God said:Where do the different races of the world come from?
honest question,
Gideon
It just says the languages were confused, it says nothing about people having different skin colours, etc.Edouard said:Do we remember the tower of Babel?
Right, that is evolution, skin colour is an adaptation. In hot countries the people there have darker skin because they need more melanin to protect them from the sun.Think about this logically, where is it hot, you usually find dark skinned people. where it tends to gte cold you fin light skinned people and so forth.
wildbrumby said:Where do the races come from? From Adam and Eve.
Dale said:If the races came from Adam and Eve, do I understand that Adam was black while Eve was white? Or was it the other way around?
This is going to surprise those who didn’t realize that Creationism is a cover for advocacy of inter-racial marriage.