(September 24, 2013 at 11:44 pm)Drich Wrote: Maybe ask a question before you make an assertion.Well, there can be a great deal of races, although traditional anthropology only mentions five basic ones. So, maybe Noah did mate with his wife and have a Chinese son. Anything is possible through God.
Noah, could have been race A his wife Race A, his sons Race 'A', their wives Race B, Race C, Race D. Which would make their sons and daughters Ab, Ac, Ad, and their progeny a combination of Ab, Ac, or Ad and so on till the tower of babble. which happens in Genesis 11 (the flood ended at the end of chapter nine.) A 1000 years could have elapsed between the flood and the tower.
At this point their were several different 'races' of people all living together in this city all speaking the same language. then god confused the language. They began to form groups, now whether the groups/languages were divided by race or not is unclear. What is clear is after 5000 years of interbreeding with only those who speak a given language (give or take some intermarriages and invasions) the gene pool narrowed making those who speak a given language a 'race' of people.
So again our primary division was in language and not skin color. (Skin color came after the language barrier.)
The questions concerning human evolution still stand: How did man populate the Earth in just a couple thousand years? All man could do was walk on foot or ride a horse back then. The Earth is not small. And why are there homo sapien remains, dating back tens of thousands of years, all across the Earth?
Slightly off-subject, but not at all a "red-herring" are these quotes from the Book of Genesis:
Genesis 10:5-31
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands, every one after his tongue. (v.5)
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues. (v.20)
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues. (v.31)
Genesis 11:1
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
Genesis 11:6-9
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language. (v.6)
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. (v.7)
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth. (v.9)
You will notice that the "tongues" of Noah's children differed greatly, long before the Tower of Babel. This is still in line with your statement that race could have come before speech, but the Bible seems to be giving conflicting information.
Also, unless my understanding is in error, God was displeased with the building of the tower, so he punished the world with different languages? Wouldn't it have been more beneficent to God to keep one language, so that everyone, everywhere, could hear his word and understand it without misconceptions? Why sour the milk?
I see a lot of questions that make no sense, scientifically or philosophically. As I said before, your theories explain some things, but only evolution explains all of them.
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