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This article was posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008
HOW DID ALL THE DIFFERENT “RACES’ ARISE (FROM NOAH’S FAMILY)?
1. What is a “race”?
2. How did different skin colors come about?
3. What are the consequences of false belief about “race”?
4.Are black people the result of curse on Ham?
According to the Bible, all humans on earth today descended from Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives and before that from Adam and Eve (Gen. 1-11).
But today we have different groups, often called “races” with what seem to be greatly differing features. The most obvious of these is skin color. Many see this as a reason to doubt the Bible’s record of history. They believe that the various groups could have arisen only by evolving separately over tens of thousands of years. However, as we shall see, this does not follow from biological evidence.
The Bible tells us how the population that descended from Noah’s family had one language and by living in one place were disobeying GOD’s command to “fill the earth” (Gen. 9:1, 11:4).
GOD confused their language, causing a breakup of the population into smaller groups which scattered over the earth (Gen.11:8-9). Modern genetics shows how, following such a breakup of a population, variation in skin color, for example, can develop in only a few generations. There is good evidence that the various people groups we have today have not been separated for huge periods of time.
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