To believe that all the races of the world came from two people?
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There are different schools of thought on evolution.  Development of one species into a completely different species (macroevolution in a nutshell) is a ridiculous theory, in my opinion.  AND PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THIS IS STILL A THEORY, NOT FACT!  I hate it that people try to pull off this old theory as fact.\nBut I totally believe in gradual adaptations within a species.  That's microevolution (in a nutshell).
102012
In my opinion, your question gives more validity of Darwin's theory of Evolution than Creation. That we are what and who we are, because of years of adaptation in this planet. As our prehistoric ancestors (supposedly apes), dispersed their population throughout the earth surface of Pangaea (known to be just one big geological land mass before it broke up into the continents we now know and live on). Since earth features climatic conditions that varies from different regions, all living beings on it has to adapt to these conditions. Nature provided the biological elements within our body through time in changing each and everyone's varying skin tone, made possible by a biochemical called Melanin. The presumption whether Adam and Eve were white, or if our skin color has any form of bearing towards intelligence is quite superficial, because color is just naturally skin deep. Getting back to whether the first humans were here instantaneous in origin as theology would suggest, it is Evolution that explains changes in: Nature, migration, time, and adaptation, brought about the multitude of human races, plants, and other living and non living oddities here on earth.
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Your statement could be true, but you'll need to work on your argument. What if it wasn't true that we're animals? What if we really did each possess a spark of divinity, either granted by God or unique to humans some other way? If humans were fundamentally different from animals, we could concievably need the old stories about gods and magic, since their relevance would not diminish with age and technology, as neither of which would impact our innate human divinity. Similarly, seeing the earth from space might indeed prove human superiority instead of diminish it; we're the first and only being capable of such magnificent works. However, I don't see the "earth-from-space" thing as important at all.\n\nBut yeah, it could be true. Doesn't make it true though.
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Races of Mankind\n\nDefinition: As used here, race means a division of mankind possessing in characteristic proportions certain combinations of physical traits that can be inherited and that are sufficient to set the group apart as a distinct human type. It should be noted, however, that the fact that the races are capable of intermarriage and reproduction shows that they are actually of one “kind,” all being members of the human family. So the various races are merely facets of the total variation possible in humankind.\n\nFrom where did the various races come?\n\nGen. 5:1, 2; 1:28: “In the day of God’s creating Adam he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them. After that he blessed them and called their name Man [or, Mankind] in the day of their being created.” “God blessed them and God said to them: ‘Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth.’” (Thus all mankind are descendants of that first human pair, Adam and Eve.)\n\nActs 17:26: “[God] made out of one man [Adam] every nation of men, to dwell upon the entire surface of the earth.” (So, regardless of what races make up a nation, they all are offspring of Adam.)\n\nGen. 9:18, 19: “Noah’s sons who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth. . . . These three were Noah’s sons, and from these was all the earth’s population spread abroad.” (After God destroyed the ungodly world by means of a global flood in Noah’s day, the earth’s new population, including all the races known today, developed from the offspring of Noah’s three sons and their wives.)\n\nWere Adam and Eve merely allegorical (fictional) persons?\n\nThe Bible does not support that view; see the main heading “Adam and Eve.”\n\nWhere did Cain get his wife if there was just one family?\n\nGen. 3:20: “Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she had to become the mother of everyone living.” (So all humans were to be the offspring of Adam and Eve.)\n\nGen. 5:3, 4: “Adam lived on for a hundred and thirty years. Then he became father to a son in his likeness, in his image, and called his name Seth. And the days of Adam after his fathering Seth came to be eight hundred years. Meanwhile he became father to sons and daughters.” (One of Adam’s sons was Cain, and one of Adam’s daughters must have become Cain’s wife. At that time in human history when humans still had outstanding physical health and vitality, as indicated by the length of their lives, the likelihood of passing on defects as a result of marrying a close relative was not great. After some 2,500 years of human history, however, when mankind’s physical condition had greatly deteriorated, Jehovah gave to Israel laws forbidding incest.)\n\nGen. 4:16, 17: “Cain went away from the face of Jehovah and took up residence in the land of Fugitiveness [or, Nod] to the east of Eden. Afterward Cain had intercourse with his wife [“knew his wife,” that is, intimately so, KJ, RS; “lay with his wife,” NE] and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch.” (Notice that Cain did not first meet his wife in the land to which he fled, as if she were from another family. Rather, it was there that he had sexual relations with her to produce a son.)\n\nWhat explains the development of the various racial characteristics?\n\n“All men living today belong to a single species, Homo sapiens, and are derived from a common stock. . . . Biological differences between human beings are due to differences in hereditary constitution and to the influence of the environment on this genetic potential. In most cases, those differences are due to the interaction of these two sets of factors. . . . Differences between individuals within a race or within a population are often greater than the average differences between races or populations.”—An international body of scientists convened by UNESCO, quoted in Statement on Race (New York, 1972, third ed.), Ashley Montagu, pp. 149, 150.\n\n“A race
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I don't think they were. I don't think there was a singular Adam and an Eve, as much of the writing of the times was symbolic, and written to convey an idea, not necessarily fact. That is not to say that it was not a divinely inspired story to show that early mankind willfully disobeyed God.\nTechnically speaking, if they were from the same geographic region as Jesus, they would have physical attributes representing the origins of all races. \nToo many European artist renderings muddy the waters.
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I think that Adam and Eve represent a new beginning in Human-kind.  This next part is kinda nuts but i think it happened.  I think that Aliens landed around or in the city of Babylon, which is the place thought to be where the garden of Eden was located.  Anyways the aliens mated with the more ape like homo-sapiens of that time.  Adam and Eve where the children of this relationship.  Maybe this is the reason for the "Missing Link" in the evolution of man. Just a theory, i usually don't bring up because Christians get really upset about that idea.
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actually caucasian and chinese are belong to one family, all the caucasian are of chinese origin,
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A little over 200 years ago, man thought the world was flat.  Their world had "limits" for them to believe that.  At the time of Noahs flood, their world, the area they knew around them was even a smaller area.  The flood of Noah was just in the area that Noah knew and lived. I'm sure most Christians don't belive in evolution,..so WHY would one make a statement that all the races came from Noah?  Races do NOT evolve. Noah was of a TRIBE of certian people.  Noah was a decendent from Adam.  The name Adam means ruddy complected,..to see blush in the face.  Some need to reread Genesis.  On the sixth day God made both man AND woman.  He gave these peoples to fish and hunt.(the races)...Then on the seventh day God rested,...and THEN He saw He had no man to till the ground. That's when God made Adam,..for the garden.  Then God saw that Adam was alone, so God made from Adams rib a woman especially for him.  Rib means curve,...like in our Helixs curve today;..DNA. Bone of Adams bone, flesh of his flesh.\nThe flood of Noah was in the area that Noah lived,...and it was brought on because of the geber/giants, offspring of the fallen angels.God sent the flood to that area to rid it of the giants.   God shook this earth way before the flood of Noah and way before He made man flesh. Just another thought;...When Noah sent out the dove, the dove brought back an olive leaf.  IF the flood totally destroyed all the earth, then how does a olive tree grow and set forth leaves in such a short time?...  Notice too how many times seven is used?  Seven means Spiritual Perfection.
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anthropologist describe three distinct races...Caucasoid, Negroid, and Mongoloid..when discussing the origin of man.   Is that what you are asking?
202363
I agree with all of you. People around the world are claiming races, people belonging to a particular religion or culture to be responsible of one-person's (or a group of very few people's) act. Why should any one blame someone else for someones misdeed. There shouldn't be even consideration of the person's race/religion/country/language. Not all the people of a particular group have same thoughts or ways to think. Not everyone acts in the same way in a similar situation.
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Anyone who believes Adam and Eve were the only two people on the earth, has not read their Bible very carefully. There was a civilization in the land of "Nod". That is where Cain went to find his wife and build his own city. Adam and Eve were the progenitors of the Hebrew race
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There's only one real race: the human race. So there really is no such thing as a mixed marriage. All human beings are more than 99% identical genetically. Less than 1% of our genes make up things like hair color, eye color, height, and skin color. Asking of it's okay for a black person and a white person to have children is like asking if it's okay for a tall person and a short person to have children, because skin-color is no more relevant than height or eye color.
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Yes they are and I can prove it, The whole bible prophecies the history of blacks, blacks have always seen the similarities but never made the connection. Didn't you know blacks during the slave trade was know by Muslims as "Yahoodee" meaning tribe of Israel? Did you know at of all the people on the face of the Earth who claim to be Hebrews would envy the Ashanti's. The name mean people for the land of Ashan in Judah? Did you it was a place during the slave trade call the "Land of Judah" by the french? Did you ever hear of the Falasha's or beta Israel, Ibo's, Lemba, Yoruba, Fanti, etc. Were call Israelites by Muslims over 1000 years ago? Look it up the Hebrew/Jewish customs in Africa, you will find lots of info. Especially in on the west coast of Africa.
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First, race does not exist.  It is a made-up term, originating as pseudo-science in the early 1900's as an excuse to keep the European/American upper class white people in control of most governments.  Studied far closer after WWII, race has been found to be non-existent - the only biological differences between 'colors' are the levels of melanin present in the skin.  Otherwise, there are no biological differences at all.  Our ethnicities and religious beliefs are really what seperates us, the "us" and "them".  Now, there are certain genes that frequent different geographical areas:  for example, sickle-cell anemia gene is far more prevalent within Africans, but as a heterozygote (that is, one parent gives the gene FOR and one 'not FOR') these Africans are protected from malaria!  Amazing what the human body will do, what it will adapt to!
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There is no such thing as race. There was a study done on human DNA, within the last ten years anyway, typing and comparing the DNA of people of many different "racial" backgrounds. Of course all the Asians expected to be genetically closer to Asians than anyone else, but it actually turned out that one Asian girl was closest genetically to her black male classmate. We are really very much alike under our skin.\nHumans are the closest to each other genetically. It's amazing. There can be as little as one nucleotide difference that distinguishes your DNA from mine.\nYou're totally right. People is people.
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No one knows when, where or how human life began on this planet. It's all speculation. Some of the theories are based on scientific evidence, but everyone knows that they are just possible scenarios and full of gaps.\nSomeone lied to you by saying that "white people were allways apriciated" and that "black people...were the "sclaves" of white people. It just nonsense that racists use to assert that black people are sub-human or animals. \nIf you believe that Adam and Eve were the first humans ever, and that God created them, and we are all direct descendants, and no other humans can or have ever existed on this planet; then you're basically screwed because nothing in life will ever make sense.
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that's a unique question... but Man started off in Africa, but migrated to the rest of the Earth.  When they got to Europe, the climate and environment changed the appearance of the Original man.   Why would you even want to know "how long did it take for people to change" ??  how would that help you?  why don't you ask why the Europeans would historically think they are better than Asians, Native Americans, and Africans in the world?  Or why any race would think they are superior and almost kill off a race and take --to that same land,--  another race they feel superior to?  Or ask why some white people hate the fact that their ancestors are from the continent they despise so much. damn, I got way off subject..