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MarkA16
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If Adam and Eve were the first ones. How does different ethnicities come from them? I am a Catholic just asking questions!
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Syele
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Ever seen a mixed race Family where the mom is black and the dad is white and they have three kids… one white, one black and one in between? (or somthing like this)
Adam and Eve each had all the genes for the different races and could pass them on to their Children just like my example family.
Adam and Eve each had all the genes for the different races and could pass them on to their Children just like my example family.
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MarkA16
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but there are more than two ethnicities: white, black, asian, latin, etc.
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Syele
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the only skin coloring is melanin some people just have more of it than others. What you are listing are really just shades of color.
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MarkA16
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how about dna? like how japanese and chinese have slanted eyes, africans tend to be tall when asians short, etc. or is it part of evolution?
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Syele
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Here’s a more technical explaination: christiananswers.net/q-aig/race-skincolor.html
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MarkA16
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so is it basically saying that adam and eve had the best combination of genes? how about how one becomes a whole of something? full white, black, etc.
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Syele
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If people segregate themselves for enough generations, it appears as if they were “a whole of something” but if they mix again they start getting variations again.
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ribozyme
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Adam and Eve did not exist. And to answer your question, I think isolation and adaptation provides a mechanism for the origin of “race”. For example, some humans could have stayed in Africa and retained their melanism, while those who migrated out of Africa and eventually settled in Europe adapted to their surroundings by loosing their melanism. Since humans are not a homogenous population and seperated by geographic boundaries, various populations cannot share their genes with one another and are subject to different selection pressures. It is kinda like speciation, but it is not, as no reproductive isolation occurs. I, however, think race is a human construct through, as we are all humans.
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MarkA16
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oh great i see. thanks a lot! everyone else feel free to add on.
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Syele
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If we did not all come from a common ancestor then how many ancestors did we have and how did they all come to be so closely related to be all called human and able to interbreed?
Even if you don’t believe the Adam and Eve of Genesis… there had to be some first Humans at some point.
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puzzleannie
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ethnicity deals with culture more than “race”. Race as applied to a set of distinctive physical traits that predominate in one population is an artificial distinction. Ethnicity includes language, customs surrounding marriage, family, and work, often religious practice, and may or may not correlate with nationality. Indeed the history of modern nation states especially in Europe is the history of conflicts between constructs of political borders and different ethnic groups within those borders. Ethnicity does not necessarily correspond to the term “race” as used above. For instance, Caucasians, sub-group that shares physical traits often referred to as “white” comprise many ethnicities and many national origins. The biblical story of the Tower of Babel is the primeval answer to OP.
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mchale
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You know, it seems to me to be rather closed minded to state categorically that Adam and Eve did not exist. I will grant that science does not support a literal interpretation of the first several chapters of Genesis, but it doesn’t rule out the concept of genetic parents of the human race. In fact, IIRC, there is evidence for a mitochondrial Eve and a y Chromosone Adam. Probably these two ancestors of all living humans did not exist at the same time. However, these genetic ancestors suggest the possibility of two spiritual ancestors. These ancestors could have been the first members of the homo sapien species to have been endowed by God with a fully human immortal soul. Granted, this is an issue that could never be tested by science, but then again, science is not intended to answer spiritual questions.
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thechrismyster
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ribozyme answers… mark replies…
1 minute apart.
at 1:51 and 1:52 in the morning, respectively… hmmmm. odd.
if i was a detective… oh, nevermind.
continue on.
1 minute apart.
at 1:51 and 1:52 in the morning, respectively… hmmmm. odd.
if i was a detective… oh, nevermind.
continue on.
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Saint_Augustin
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What is true for humans is also true for dogs, cats, birds, etc.
Microevolution is the answer.
Microevolution is the answer.
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ribozyme
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Sigh, evolution is evolution… “microevolution” is just the way of textbooks to distinguish between changes that require a long time, to ones that could occur in a few generations.
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Saint_Augustin
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I have no problem to conciliate the reality of God with the evolution of life. However, the evolution thesis is necessitating more certitudes from the scientists. This explanation for the origin of life is not clear as water, not yet.
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Disciple2
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Greetings St. Augustin,I have no problem to conciliate the reality of God with the evolution of life. However, the evolution thesis is necessitating more certitudes from the scientists. This explanation for the origin of life is not clear as water, not yet.
The only reasonable explanation for the racial diversity is that God placed within Adam and Eve, the potential for the different races. This would require a vast genetic pool and variety of genes. Remember that the only people for Cain and Abel to marry were their sisters. Today, we are so far removed from that kind of genetic variety that such a reproductive effort results in retardation and deformity. Not so back then.
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MarkA16
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i hope u dont think i am ribozyme. it was 6:30ish am Pacific and i was rushing before I could get ready for school.
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