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To: Boogieman
Why would you assume they all had to be different races? That’s a strange assumption. Are you going to tell us that black skin is the “curse of Cain” next?

BTW, you dodged the question. If everyone on earth is descended from Noah in 2350BC, then how is it we have blacks, orientals, pygmys, the red man, and everyone in between? All these changes occurred in just a few hundred years after Noah? Blacks and orientals have been in America for 400 years, I see no change in them here from the 1600s.

567 posted on 11/28/2014 9:48:45 AM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: Partisan Gunslinger

“BTW, you dodged the question. If everyone on earth is descended from Noah in 2350BC, then how is it we have blacks, orientals, pygmys, the red man, and everyone in between?”

Well, you didn’t actually ask that question, you asked whether three brothers from the same family were different races, which is quite an odd question to ask.

Now that you ask, I will say, the races are quite obviously the result of environmental adaptation, specifically to the environments that people settled in after the flood. Also, the races do not seem to correspond to which of Noah’s children someone descended from. Both Hamitic and Semitic people settled in the Middle East, for example, and experienced the same environmental pressures, and ended up morphological similar, while Hamitic peoples who settled in sub-Sarahan Africa ended up looking much different.

Of course none of that is really relevant, since the Bible doesn’t bother to talk about race, because it isn’t important. Which makes me wonder why it seems important to you.


570 posted on 11/28/2014 10:03:01 AM PST by Boogieman
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