How do creationists explain all the different races?

[rockydem]

If it was just Adam and Eve - then how did there come to be black/white/Indian/asian/eskimo, etc. etc.. - different types of people spread throughout the world?

[sniffa]

1. god put them there to serve white peopLe

duh! ye of LittLe faith

[Bill McBlueState]

2. magic

Same explanation they have for everything: magic.

[papau]

3. Race does not exist as a scientific concept. Is the question why is there

different skin colors?

[rockydem]

5. yes

[papau]

11. Evolution post the initial creation? seems to be a common idea.

The folks that find a reason for 500 million old bones in 5000 year old soil do have a problem with that reasoning - but you will have to ask them what their alternative reasoning is as I do not know it!

:-)

[soothsayer]

13. Is our children learning?

THAT's the real question!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. Ask a Mormon

:scared:

[Dob Bole]

6. I don't think it's that much of an issue....pigmentation can be recessive

It is entirely possible for two "white" parents to have a "black" child, for example...though it's uncommon.

On edit: the question has changed since I wrote this post, to why there are different people groups. Creationists, or conservative Christians in general, would point to this part of scripture:

Genesis 11:

http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?passage=GEN+11&language=english&version=NIV&showfn=on&showxref=on

[swag]

7. A couple of different explanations

1. Part of the fall-out from the Tower of Babel incident

2. Ham was the first black guy; it was part of his curse for seeing his daddy nekkid and drunk.

I'm not making this bullshit up. I was raised to believe this shit to be the gospel truth.

[rockydem]

8. wow

the explanation was wierder than I thought it would be...

[swag]

10. It's not a terribly reality-based view of things, I'll grant you that.

You can find a lot of shit on the web by looking up Ham, Noah, Curse of Canaan, etc.

[DrWeird]

9. Noah had different colored kids.

And then God cursed the black ones which is why they're inferior and OK to keep as slaves.

Not making that up.

[LisaLynne]

12. Yep -- that was the story I got.

And people wonder why I rejected my parents' religion when I was 12. :eyes:

Oh, edited to add that, actually, in the version of Christianity my parents subscribed to, they didn't do the 'black race is cursed' thing. At least overtly. I will give them that, but that's all. :)

[Dob Bole]

14. I never heard of it...

I live in the "Bible Belt" and my parents are pretty much fundamentalists, yet they're some of the most progressive people I know on the race issue.