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Why didn't the bible say where Africans; Chinese, Indian, and other races come from?

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  • 3 years ago

    (acts 17:26)

    Acts 17:26

    26 And he made out of one man+ every nation of men to dwell on the entire surface of the earth,+ and he decreed the appointed times and the set limits of where men would dwell

  • 3 years ago

    From where did the various races come?

    Gen. 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.)

    Acts 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.)

    Gen. 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.)

    What explains the development of the various racial characteristics?

    “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.

    “A race is simply one of the partially isolated gene pools into which the human species came to be divided during and following its early geographical spread. Roughly one race has developed on each of the five major continental areas of the earth. . . . Man did indeed diverge genetically during this phase of history and we can measure and study the results of this divergence in what remains today of the old geographical races. As we would expect, divergence appears to be correlated with the degree of isolation. . . . When race formation took place on the continents, with the bottlenecking of thousands of populations in isolated gene pools all over the world, the gene-frequency differences we now see were established. . . . The paradox which faces us is that each group of humans appears to be externally different yet underneath these differences there is fundamental similarity.” (Heredity and Human Life, New York, 1963, H. L. Carson, pp. 151, 154, 162, 163) (Thus, early in human history, when a group of people were isolated from others and married within the group, certain distinctive combinations of genetic traits were emphasized in their offspring.)

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  • 3 years ago

    It does at Genesis 3:20,”After this Adam named his wife Eve, because she was to become the

    mother of everyone living.” That includes all races.

    Source(s): www.jw.org click on “Bible Teachings there you will get scriptural answers to questions.
  • 3 years ago

    The authors of the bible thought that the world was only 500 sq.miles.

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  • David
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    After the Great Flood, the world was populated by Noah's three sons.

    According to the Bible, Cain built the first city post Flood, then Nimrod built the kingdom of Babel. Japheth moved to Europe, Ham moved to Northern Africa (northeast Nigeria), Shem moved to Asia.

    Addendum

    Different people groups developed after the Flood from the descendents of Noah. After the Flood, all people spoke the same language. Genesis 11 explains that God confused their languages at the Tower of Babel to force them to scatter over the earth. This scattering isolated portions of the human gene pool geographically.

    After the scattering of people from the Tower of Babel, genetic information was sorted and isolated into many geographic areas. Certain groups lost the ability to produce children of other skin shades because the genetic information for those skin shades was not present in their population group.

    I could stop here, but you seem emphatic for more information, more data.

    The claim that human or animal genetic diversity could NOT have arisen from only two original people is actually not new at all.

    This assertion comes from mathematical simulations done in the 1990s. These simulations assume evolution happened in order to prove evolution is true. This reasoning is entirely circular and therefore invalid.

    Biologically speaking, humans went through a “bottleneck” at the Flood. As a result, most of the genetic diversity from before the Flood was lost. The human population was reduced to just eight people.

    If a woman fails to have daughters, her mitochondrial genes won’t be passed on to future generations. They go extinct, as it were. As a result, it is relatively easy for mitochondrial gene diversity to be lost during a bottleneck.

    “Out of Africa” is an interpretation based on certain starting assumptions. Basically, geneticists interpret geographic origin as the place where we find the group with the most genetic diversity. Where they live today is assumed to be the geographic origin of that diversity. This assumption is not necessarily correct. Given how often people move around, where a group lives now is not necessarily where the diversity originated; certainly not a "fact" or irrefutable.

    The real geographic origin of all modern humans is Babel, according to Scripture. The high variation in African DNA probably means that the majority of human families coming out of Babel went south and settled in Africa. To be sure, other families settled in other locations, as the Table of Nations indicates (Genesis 10), but the majority of DNA diversity in that Babel population went south.

    Prior to 1900 Darwinisms original text was the best materialistic explanation for the diversity of life on the planet - Because of Mendel's Law it had to be modified and dropped the assertion of acquired traits being heritable.. In 1953 with the discovery of DNA Darwinism had to be revised a second time.. Discoveries between 1990 and 2010 have invalidated all the hypothetical mechanisms of the "Modern synthesis - AKA The selfish Gene" and so presently Darwinism has no viable hypothetical mechanism.

    Now, even evolutionists recognize that you can trace anyone on earth’s mitochondrial DNA back to one of three major genetic groupings. So three women are behind all of the diversity we see today. Well, who were those women?

    Noah’s three daughters-in-law are the great, great, great grandmothers of all the people alive today. We are all related through Noah’s family, just as the Bible says!

    I do not see any genetic disagreement between Science and the Bible's account of Creation from two people. The diversity was already encoded in the first two perfect human beings. "Evolving" is a false evolutionary idea that has not been "proven".

    If two people have the combination of their AABB and aabb genes would give rise to a child who carries the AaBb genes for melanin and would be “middle brown” in skin shade. Now, if two people carrying the AaBb genes got married and reproduced, their children could have a wide rage of skin colors.

    If Adam and Eve were both middle brown (AaBb), they would have produced children with a wide range of tones. Suddenly, all of us being one race doesn’t seem so complicated.

  • 3 years ago

    Acts 17:26 And he made out of one man every nation of men to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he decreed the appointed times and set limited of where men would dwell

    All humans are related, and all are born equal before God.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    The three main races derive from the sons of Noah

    The descendants of Shem would inhabit the northern lands. and get lighter

    The descendants of Ham would inhabit the African lands, and get darker

    The descendants of Japeth would inhabit the Asian lands and get....more Asian

    this is explained, if you can dig deep enough

  • 3 years ago

    Genesis 3:20

    After this Adam named his wife Eve, because she was to become the mother of everyone living.

    Genesis 1:28

    Further, God blessed them, and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many, fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving on the earth.” (fill the earth)

    Romans 2:11

    For there is no partiality with God.

    Source(s): Jehovah “Is Not Partial” God listens to the prayers of his worshippers regardless of their race, nationality, or social standing. How do we know that https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/wp201...
  • 3 years ago

    I does day it. In Gensis it show the genealogy of all men, coming from two parents. That is enough

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Please help me I am losing all faith in my atheism. What evidence do us atheists have that even proves atheism is true?

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