Exactly this.

Adam and Eve is a mythological tale IBeMe sis. Lots of fantastical events happen in the Bible, clearly you wouldn't believe a person eaten by a giant fish would survive for example.

LOL! It's a thread about Adam and Eve, so obviously it's Bible/Creationism discussion first and foremost. And yes Adam and Eve were the first humans, but ppl here seem to act like they were the only ones and their sons and daughters were getting it on other people were made by God too, and he obvs made humans with different skin colour. Simplly put first humans=/=only humans.

Catholic Church Answer: It's a mystery

Definitely a legitimate question though, I've always assumed that just because they were the FIRST people God made doesn't mean he couldn't have made more later for population purposes, after the Garden of Eden incident or something so they had original sin too. I know the bible even mentions Caine (their son who killed his brother ) fleeing from them to a totally different location... and finding a wife and having kids with her, which seems pretty impossible if Adam/Eve are the only people God ever created.

Obviously I have no proof that God further populated the world (or that Adam and Eve exists), that's how things like faith and religion work, but I feel like it's the explanation I've heard which makes the most sense, so... for now it's what I go with. If I hear something to make me reconsider, I'm more than willing to. I haven't yet, though.

The people with dark skin are all native to very hot parts of the world.

Dark skin has a biological advantage in such climates because it protects far more agains sunlight, sunburn and therefore makes skin cancer much less likely. People with darker skin are much more likely to survive in hotter climates (before sunscreen etc).

It is a massive, massive coincidence that those with darker skin just so happened to have lived in the very hot parts of the world. You could say that was the work of God in populating the earth.... Or....

It stands to reason that if you were born with darker skin in a hot climate, you were more likely to survive to adulthood and reproduce. Through quirks of genetics and sexual reproduction, a few darker skinned children would be born every few generations and have that survival advantage. Their offspring would inherit the dark skin, and might go on to have offspring with even darker skin. Over time, the skin colour of these people would therefore become darker, purely because they live in a hot climate and those that survive the best are able to reproduce.

Where there is an entirely logical explanation for a state of affairs that does not require any outside influences to explain, it becomes more difficult to accept that a god has anything to do with it. And once you work out that enough of these 'puzzle pieces' really don't require there to be a god to explain, that might make you reconsider your beliefs and evaluate if they still make sense.

Because they were black and black people have the most genetic variability/diversity.

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I've always been under the impression that God created other people after Adam & Eve...if not, their kids would have to have mated with either each other or their parents


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oh didn't read through the thread before posting, but yeah i pretty much agree with yall

Shem, Japheth and Ham.

Has nobody in here ever wondered why "Ham's Children" is said so often by white people in old white literature? It's one of the oldest, most offensive slurs out there and was used to argue against the legalization of interracial marriages.

theyre not!

So if incest is bad, who did Adam and Eve's children breed with?

The sun

All humans DO come from a common ancestor, even the different races.

An "Adam" and an "Eve" probably do exist, but they probably didn't live at the same time, and they would've been alive much, much longer back than 6,000 years ago. 6,000 years isn't enough time for different races to evolve.

I don't believe in the Bible. But I think the way Christians must reconcile this is to say that Adam and Eve weren't the first humans, and that there were other humans alive at the same time as them (that would also explain how their children managed to have children without incest). Perhaps they were the "first humans" capable of sinning.