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? asked in Social ScienceAnthropology · 8 years ago

What do the Holy Scriptures say about Evolution and race? How that differs with Scientific studies?

I read somewhere that Human genome scientists say that the entire human race is so

similar that race is no longer a scientific issue.

But there are phenotypic traits strongly different between two ethnic groups and strongly equalized within groups, Many think that enough to call these ethnic groups races. Skin color and other physical variations and many people wonder in what kind of race Adam and Eve were sent on earth according to Holy Scriptures.

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  • J V
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Which holy scripture Like neither the Genesis in the Old testament or the Quran or any other sacred work should be used as a science text book!

    It doesn't matter what color of skin or race or phenotypic traits Adam and Eve had.

    Chances are though they had darker skin than you or me!

  • 8 years ago

    Abrahamic scriptures show no evidence of an early understanding of evolution: organisms multiply "after their kind" that's it.

    Ancient Hebrews weren't as mad about local phenotype variations as modern Americans, maybe because they didn't often travel far from Middle-East. They just didn't care about so called human races

    Curse on Ham/Canaan was originally a justification of Canaanites / Israelites relationship. The curse on Africans was a 16th century justification of Africans enslavement.

    Ancient Hebrews had other concerns than skin color and facial features:

    - conflicts between nomadic shepherds and settled farmers (Abel vs Cain account).

    - Black Sea level rise (The Flood).

    - relationship with powerful neighbors Babylon and Egypt (Exodus etc.)

    Besides that,if there were real people behind Eve & Adam myth, they were most likely Middle-Easterners, founders of one of he first settlements based on farming hard work.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    The Torah nor Koran speaks about evolution in humans. there are scriptures that have been twisted out of context such a Noah's curse on Canaan or Gods curse on Aaron and his wife

    The Bible is written symbolically. Science is science and in this day and age is pretty much accurate and even so the very stubborn field of science corrects its self when wrong far far easier than those who take biblical scripture literally

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