if adam is our father, then why do we have afro, chinese, caucasians etc ppl?
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Because we were separated into tribes and races so we would be more recognizeable.  So we can tell eachother apart.  If all there were were one set of traits (Ie: black hair and brown eyes) it would be pretty hard to tell us all apart.
996390
Yes, welcome to reality. There are two races of man in this world ever since the addition of a second man, the last Adam, who is the Messiah. Previously you had only one choice of race in which to belong and that was Adams race. Of course, the choice was easy and made for you, as you were born into it and automatically enjoyed its many benefits and privileges, among which were sin and death. Now, however, thanks to the death burial and resurrection of the Christ you are offered a rare opportunity to join a  separate race. It too has benefits and privileges, among which are holiness and eternal life. Your choice. Choose wisely.
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If all humans started in Africa a very long time ago, they did not all stay there.  They wandered.  And as they wandered, tribal groups formed which were isolated one from another.  The characteristics of a given tribe were selected out in response to different environments.  Thus, for example, northern Europeans store fat on their bodies efficiently (way too efficiently for modern times!) to protect them from the cold winters.  The closer to the equator a tribe is, the darker skin is more valuable, and selection brings it to the forefront.  \n\nSo that's how we separated.  Now, with world wide transportation, we are coming together once more.  And as people from different gene pools breed, they produce the healthy children who have fewer matching of recessive traits.  Recessive traits are more likely to be the ones that cause problems.  So yes, it is better for us to mix, for the evolution of the species as a whole, and for the beauty and good health of the individual children thus created.
601242
We were not created by chance.  God was lonely and need companionship so he created Adam.  The rest of us descend from Adam and Eve.
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The different skin colors have evolved as response to the different environmental conditions in which the various populations (don't call it "races": any modern biologist refuses this concept as meaningless) have developed.\nIt is generally accepted that Homo Sapiens originated in Africa, then gradually migrated to the other continents, especially after the introduction of agriculture and the consequent demographic explosion. Our African ancestors must have been all black, because at those latitudes the skin needs to protect from sun rays and this protection is achieved by dark pigments.\nMoving to the north, where the sun is weaker, an intense pigmentation was no longer an evolutionary advantage, but a flaw, because another effect of sun exposure is to trigger D vitamin production. Therefore, in thousands of years, the skin of northern people gradually changed to white.\nNote that the reverse is also true: Australian natives are darker than their ancestors migrating north to south from Asia.\nIn conclusion, the skin color is just the result of a balance between the need for skin protection (prevent skin cancer) and that for skin transparency (promote D vitamin production).
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I hope no-one takes offence to your question. It is a valid one and you clearly state this as a generalisation and obviously understand that there is a huge variation in jewish appearance, but yes, there is some characturistics that are considered 'jewish'.\n\nI think it is as someone has already said, there is a geographical orrigination and historically jews have not married out of religion, although this is of course a generalisation in its self. So the gene pool has largely remained intact. Obviousy the genes for those characturistics have been carried through the generations and not been widely circulated among other religious backgrounds. Although again I stress those characturistics are not exclusively jewish and intermarriage has scattered them about into other cultures too.\n\nPerhaps even, many of those characturistic genes are recessive, and therefore generally appear in the more pure jewish families than the ones of more mixed race. \n\nBut I do dissagree with about the 'christian' look. I'm sure out of a line up of jews, christians, muslims, hindus, buddists and many other religions, that someone could pick out a christian. Generally speaking of course. I'm sure we could also find many traditianaly jewish or traditionally muslim looking people and actually find that thay are infact christian or buddist.
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No, if white people where the chosen race, why would he need other races? White people don't always look good. And Asian people or African people can also be very pretty. Would you call Beyonce ugly? Or Lucy Lu?
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sooo, i only share 50% of my DNA with my dad, whom i actually look like; and you want to tell me that this ape has more in common with me than my dad: whose genes i actually have?  your logic is screwed up.
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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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While I'm not a Christian, I doubt they think of God as "human."  But I believe their Bible does say man was created in "God's own image," so...\n\nOne could argue that it wasn't necessarily God's physical image, but more the idea of consciousness or self-awareness.\n\nAs for Jesus being Caucasian, it depends on what you mean.  Obviously, they know he wasn't European.  But people in that region do tend to have lighter skin then what you might expect.  Arabs, for example, look white, except for a slight difference in undertone.\n\nIn any case, since they believe Jesus was the son of God/God Himself, he wouldn't be Caucasian or Arab or anything else.  He'd be whatever God is.
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Firstly what makes you believe we have an 'inborn nature'? Why would anyone believe that?\nAm I correct in thinking that you believe that if Hitler had a sibling, then he or she would inherit the traits of their Father?\nOr the siblings of a Saint would inherit the traits of a Saint?\nHitler had these ideas of breeding a 'Master race'! Rubbish wasn't it?\nThe whole concept to my mind is completely out of order and has no merit in fact!\nI liken it to visiting a doctor after having a heart attack, he will ask:- Do you smoke? then Do you drink? then:- Have any of tour blood relatives ever had a heart attack?\nIf the answer to the last on is yes, and the answer to the rest is No, then the problem is solved! It's hereditary! Check it all out for yourself .\nMy Father was a Harvard Professor, but that doesn't mean that I can't be an idiot!\nPlease do not just assume that we are what our parents used to be!
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Even if you are a beliver of creationism (god created the Earth) it does not exclude the possibilty that modern races evolved from the two first humans (adam and eve).  It is true that certain distiguishing features arise from populations centered in different climate zones.  Human populations origionating from northern Europe and Asia have much lighter pigmented skin than those from closer to the equator.  However, there are unexplained reasons as to why southeast Asians developed differently from the populations of Africa.  Either way all human population origionates in northeastern Africa and the Middle East and fans out from there.  As humans began to settle in different corners of the Earth, They became cut off from each other and did not meet until their features were clearly different from one another.
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neither africa nor asia are racially homogenous.  look at the vast differences between indians, arabs, and chinese in asia and pygmys, berbers, and black africans in africa.  there is huge variation.\n\nrace is not genetically significant.  people from the same race often show more genetic differences amongst themselves than they do with other races.  its just that we see skin and hair color predominantly and make the false assumption that these must be important indicators of genetics.  i don't know what caused differing hair and eye colors to evolve, but i am certain that these are very superficial traits which actually would have virtually nothing to do with whether the people are racially or genetically homogenous.
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There was an interesting documentary on this a few days ago on Discovery Times on cable I watched the other day that explains it to my satisfaction at the time......When Adam and Eve were forged by God and cast out of the Garden of Eden and Cain and Able were born it is theorized there were other tribal humans living outside the Garden of Eden and when the groups intermixed the "Holy" families were born under one bloodline......Those folks were of somewhat African and Middle Eastern ancestry in the countries we know of as today.........And hence the variety of complexions in the human race today as we know it
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He would not have looked like the other Hebrews.  He would have looked like Adam, with all the same genetic material.  At the time, all other humans were the result of 4000 years of genetic drift.  Christ didn't come to be like other humans, he came as a perfect human being, a replacement for the one who brought sin into the world, to than remove it.  The meaning of Adam was red man, and this likely best describes Jesus.  Since he worked mostly outside, as a carpenter, he was likely well tanned, but without any of the usual affects of being in the sun, such as leathery skin.  He was also likely a very strong man, because carpentry was very hard work.  He would have been living in a middle income family, as Joseph had a trade that would have been in demand.  Yes, he was Jewish by the fact that he was born of a Jewish woman, but genetically, he was more a clone of Adam.  He is a little of all of us, if we combined all our genetic traits into one person.
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i believe in evolution, and yes whites did come from blacks. think about this everybody agrees that the human race started in africa right. that means our pigment was damaged witch causes skin color. as we go to places like euorpe our pigment get less damaged so they repair and get lighter. thats how white people get tanned. im white bye the way. your pretty smart not one of my teachers would try to think about it. bye
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G-d cannot have human attributes, and any mention of human attributes to desribe G-d is understood as a metaphor.  We Jews do not believe that G-d can have a son! \nThat just doesn't make any sense to us.