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RECONSTRUCTING THE HISTORY OF PEOPLE GROUP
This article was posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
We can now reconstruct the true history of the people groups, using:
1. The information given by the Creator Himself in the book of Genesis.
2. The background information given above.
3. Some consideration of the effect of the environment.
The first created man, Adam, from whom all other humans are descended, was created with the best possible combination of genes—— or skin color, for example. A long time after creation, a worldwide Flood destroyed all humans except a man called Noah, his wife, his three sons and wives. This flood greatly changed the environment. Afterward, GOD commanded the survivors to multiply and fill the earth (Gen. 9:1). About a hundred years later, people chose to disobey GOD and began to be united in building a city, with the Tower of Babel as the focal point of rebellious worship.
From Genesis 11, we understand that up to this time there was only one language. GOD judged the people’s disobedience by imposing different languages, so that they could not work together against GOD. The confusion forced the people to scatter over the earth as GOD intended.
So all the people groups—— black Africans, Indo-Europeans, Mongolians, and others——- have come into existence since Babel.
Noah and his family were probably mid- brown, with genes for both dark and light skin, because medium skin color would seem to be the most generally suitable (dark enough to protect against skin cancer, yet light enough to allow Vitamin D production). As all the factors for skin color were present in Adam and Eve, they most likely have been mid-brown as well, with brown eyes and brown (or black) hair. In fact, most of the world’s population today is still mid-brown.
After the Flood, for the few centuries after Babel, There was only one language and one culture group. Thus, there were no barriers to marriage within this group. This would tend to keep the skin color of the population away from the extremes. Very dark and very light skin would appear, of course, but people tending in either direction would be free to marry someone lighter or darker than themselves, ensuring that the average color stayed roughly the same.
The same would be true of the characteristics other than skin color. Under these sorts of circumstances, distinct differences in appearance will never emerge. To obtain such separate lines, you would need to break a large breeding group into smaller groups and keep them separate; that is, prevent interbreeding between groups. This will be true for animals as well as human populations, as every biologist knows.
(Answers In Genesis)
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