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Where Did The Different Races Come From?
By Adam Bartlett

I believe that people adapt to the climate and living conditions they are subjected to and over time even physical traits change to accommodate that difference. If a white person who lived in Canada moved to South America at a young age and lived there their whole life, would it be a good assumption that they would have a darker complexion than if they lived in Canada all their life? Now if you were to take this crude example and then apply it to the white person and multiply this by hundreds of years, what would you get? I believe that each generation would slowly but methodically develop the traits necessary to accommodate that climate and culture. We must go back to the early Bible days to find out why all this was even necessary to start with.

What the Bible says:
Genesis 11
1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
3 They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.
6 The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 That is why it was called Babel --because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.


God caused the people to be scattered because they were becoming too intelligent and the separation of language barriers would keep this collective intelligence from reaching its potential before the appointed time by God. I would like to share an explanation by a creation expert that exposes the errors and fallacy of evolution.

The Effects of Babel
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 would move away or be forced away from each other, into different environments. This, of course, is what God intended.

It is unlikely that each small group would carry the same broad 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 intermarry only within their own language group, these differences would no longer be averaged out as before.

As these groups migrated away from Babel, they encountered new and different climate zones. This would also have affected the balance of inherited factors in the population. However, the effects of the environment are nowhere near as important as the initial genetic mix of each group.

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 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 does not create new ones.

It is interesting to note that the Neanderthals 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 them to be classified as "ape-men" for a long time. It is thus quite plausible that they were a dark-skinned people who were unfit for the environment into which they moved because of the skin color genes they began with. 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 this group, and (b) even eliminate entire groups. This is why we see, to a large extent, that the physical characteristics of people tend to match the environment where they live (e.g., Nordic people with pale skin, equatorial people with dark skin).

To me this is a very understandable explanation of how and why this separation of people formed the races and distinctions we see today. Because of the technology that has advanced today we are bridging all those barriers again and the collective intelligence is once again as it was then. We see cloning, nuclear technology, and computers doing everything we can imagine. It is safe to say that there is basically nothing imaginable that is not attainable with our current technology and collective intelligence. Therefore, it is also very evident that we are at the end of time also because the anti-christ will use this technology to once again try to usurp the power of God using this technology to set himself up as the “god” of this world.

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