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EFFECTS of BABEL
This article was posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008
This is exactly what happened at Babel. Once separate languages were imposed, there were instantaneous barriers. Not only would people tend not to marry someone they couldn’t understand, but entire groups which spoke the same language would have difficulty relating to and trusting those which did not. Thus, they move away or be forced away from each other, into different environments. This, of course, is what GOD intended.
It is unlikely that every small group would carry the same brad range of skin colors as the original, larger group. One group might have more dark genes, on average, while another might have more light genes. The same thing would occur with other characteristics: nose shape, eye shape. etc. And since they would only intermarry in their own language group, these differences would no longer be averaged out as averaged as before.
As these groups migrated away from Babel, they encountered new and different climate zones. This also would have affected the balance of inherited factors in the population.
As an example, consider a group of people who moved to a cold region with little sunlight. Here, the dark- skinned members would not be able to produce enough Vitamin D, and thus would be less healthy and have fewer children. So, in time, the light-skinned members would predominate.
If several different groups went to such such an area, and if one group happened to be carrying few genes for lightness, this particular group could in time die out. Thus, natural selection acts on the characteristics already present, and thus not create new ones.
It is interesting to note that the Neandertals of Europe, now extinct, but recognized as fully human, show evidence of vitamin D deficiency in that many of their bones were bent. In fact, this, plus a large dose of evolutionary prejudice, caused the to be classified as “ape-men” for a long time. It is quite plausible that they were dark-skinned people who were unfit for the environment into which they moved because of the skin color genes they began wit. Notice (again) that this natural selection, as it is called, does not produce skin colors, but only acts on the created capacity for making skin pigment that is already there.
Conversely, fair-skinned people in very sunny regions could easily be affected by skin cancer. Thus, in these regions dark-skinned people would more readily survive and come to predominate.
So we see that the pressure of the environment can:
A). affect the balance of genes within group.
B). even eliminate the entire group. This is why we see, to a large extent, that the physical characteristics of people tend to match the environment where they live. Nordic people with pale skin, equatorial people with dark-skin.
But this is not always so. The Inuit (Eskimo) have brown skin, yet live where there is not much sun. Presumably, they all have a genetic make up such as Ma,Ma, mb,mb which would not be able to produce a lighter skin. On the other hand, native South Americans living in equator do not have black skin. These examples confirm that natural selection does not create new information —— if the genetic make up of a group of people does not allow variation in color toward the desirable, natural selection cannot create such variation.
Pygmies live in hot area, but rarely experience strong sunshine in their dense jungle environment; yet they have dark skin. Pygmies may be a good example of another factor that has affected the racial history of man: discrimination.
People different from the “norm” (e.g., a very light person in a dark people group) have historically been regarded as abnormal and rejected by the group. Thus, such a person would find it hard to get a marriage partner. This would farther tend to eliminate light genes from a dark people, and vice versa. In this way, groups have tended to “purify” themselves.
Also, in some instances, interbreeding within a small group can accentuate a commonly occurring unusual feature that would otherwise be swamped by marriage outside the group. There is a tribe in africa whose members all have grossly deformed feet as a result of interbreeding.
Pymies who are possessing genes for short stature are discriminated against so they seek refuge in the deepest forest. They marry only one of them which ensure the pygmy race but they do not have their own language. They adopt and speak the dialect of neighboring non- pygmy tribal language.
(Answer In Genesis)
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