If Adam and Eve was white, how is their black people?

Question

Not racist, just curios

Answer 1

When people draw adam and eve often as a learning tool or simply just as art, they most often draw them white because almost everyone can be born with this color no matter what race you are. This lessens the speculation of what race they were because if you are reading the story you want to get the educational value of it not have conversations of the skin color. Of course we don't actually know what color or shade they were and even though through the bible we see the world started in the middle east somewhere this has nothing to do with it because if you believe God is all powerful than surely he would have made them whatever color he wanted. Most likely when Adam and Eve began having children they were all different colors which gave the world a little variety. YAY

Answer 2

The Story of Adam and Eve is simply a metaphor used by Jesus to explain to people from a much simpler time that God created us.



So unless you are a fundamentalist Christian Adam and Eve never really existed.



We all evolved. And besides Jesus was from Isreal so the people there would have had darker skin to those in more northern countries.



Images you see today are just Artists take on the story.

Answer 3

Portraying Adam and Eve as Whites is just a convention used in European Baroque painting. We nowadays all know the history of evolution and the development from early humanoid primates into modern Man. And I suppose one could say that Adam and Eve can be said to be a symbol for the first readily evolved Homo Sapiens Sapiens primates, who already had our mental capacity and were thus the end model we are now. And it is also known that they lived somewhere in East Africa, presumably the Ethiopian region from which they conquered the world, after surviving the cataclysmic Toba eruption 75,000 years ago. This has been proved by DNA sampling. So it is evident that they were Blacks.



The Bible is a book that more or less covered the history of the past 10,000 years of Mankind, starting more or less with the Deluge, which was very probably the catastrophic rise in sea levels after the end of the Ice Age 10,000 years ago. Anything before that is only meant symbolically and is by no means historic. The six days of creation stand (for me) for six stages in the creation of time, space, the solar system and Earth itself, its plants and its animals and finally Man. They are not meant to be real days. So Adam and Eve only stand as a symbol for the first finished / modern humans, After the Deluge, many of the Biblical heroes we know of were also only partially historically accurate. It is very likely, for instance, that the figure of Moses is an amalgamation of several historic individuals, one of them very probably being Akhenaton, the first Egyptian pharaoh who revered just one God, thus the inventor of "monotheism". This does not mean, however, that the basic truths behind these Biblical stories are untrue. The later we get, the more accurate the historic accounts become, with the solar eclipse that happened the moment of Jesus's death being the most accurate one as we can calculate and prove it up to this day, to the very minute.

Answer 4

It's pretty much impossible to tell what race Adam and Eve were that long ago. Paintings aren't accurate descriptions, only depictions. And while people say that because they were born in the Middle East, they must be dark-skinned, you can never know for sure. I doubt you could become so tan that you'd be black, honestly.

Either way, who cares? It doesn't change anything, whether they were white or black or Asian (kidding about the Asian thing, before you tell me I'm wrong). It doesn't add or take away from the Bible, so I don't understand why there's so much debate about it.

Answer 5

There is no way to really no for sure what race Adam and Eve were since it was dated so far back in time possibly before the existence of canvas oil based portraits. It's possible that a prophet may have had a vision of them later in time as to what they might have looked like but I don't know if that actually took place or not as to how they may have been perceived. Actually I believe the solar rays a very long time ago especially when people lived in the hotter climates especially along the equator may have produced darker skinned people over a period time is my theory as to how that may have come to be like that..

Answer 6

I really doesn't think it matters what they were. It is a biblical traditional story. The way I see it, is humans didn't involve from Adam and Eve. My views are strictly scientific based, I respect what the bible teaches, but from a scientific perspective, the first eukaryotic cell was born, however these eukaryotic cells multiplied, creating the very first multi-cellar life. Plants appeared, insects, reptiles and dinosaurs, and they were famously extinct by an asteroid, wiped out. Leaving nothing but their apparent fossils, which proves to us dinosaurs existed and along with our evolutionary fossils, they too walked the earth. Without fossils, we would have no way of knowing entirely how our ancestors were here. With these we know. In the bible it points out Adam and Eve diminish into dust after eating from the tree of knowledge between good and bad, and supposedly that's how sin started. The bible doesn't point out if Adam and Eve were white or black, why does it matter, things still happen the same regardless what race they were. Another thing is, you're only targeting one group, how is their asians and other peoples? My philosophy is evolution, yours is God. That's fine however. Originally everyone was one, and people with darker melanin (Blacks) were in warmer and hotter climates, people in places were they were less sunlight (Whites) have typically less melanin. Big deal. We are here today because of how we developed, and who our ancestors bound with, all sounds mythical to me.

Answer 7

Adam and Eve were not white. They were dark skinned. They lived in the middle east which, in ancient times, was a part of Africa. Being an intensely hot country, they were bound to be dark skinned/black. There is a scripture that states Noah had "burnt skin", meaning he was black. Moses was also black, there is a scripture where God tells moses to put his hand inside his cloak, when God tells him to pull his hand from out of his cloak he finds it has "turned white" like a lepers skin! This signifies that Moses was black. Also Samson was a black man with his hair in long [rasterferian type] tendrils.

All the Eygptians were darkskinned as were Gods chosen people the "Israelites. Even Jesus, his family and his disciples were all dark skinned, from deep olive to black. The black people were the first people on this planet!

After a huge migration from ancient mesopotamia, tribes and their families spread out across the world and began to populate new areas. Those that settled in europe became paler in complexion because of the colder climate. Its a fascinating thing to study, so I suggest that you start delving into ancient history! If you do, you will find that it backs up what the Bible says about life beginning in the middle east [then called Africa]!

Answer 8

Before Adam and Eve we had neanderthal, cromagnon and others. Adam and eve ara a methapore . Evolution was what created all the living creatures. Including humans in different parts of the world.

And black people came out because of a mutation.

Answer 9

Adam was black Eve was white.

Answer 10

If Adam and Eve was white, doesn't mean they don't had genetical mutations. If you know Darwin's Theorem, the genes have mutations during future decades, and maybe some of them were that they got black accidentally. And the nature chooses the ones that are stronger than the others. For example people in Europe are white with light hair and eye color. It is because that during a long time there existed black and white people there , but the white people could live in the Europe because there was lack of sun light there and white people could live in the lack of light better than the black. On the other hand, in Africa that it is the direct light of sun, black people could live better. Because of their skin, they could live in the direct light of sun better than the white. The white got sick and died. That is natural chose in the Darwin's Theorem. So if Adam and Eve was white, the black are their genetic mutations.

Answer 11

Supposedly, they were brown skin of a race that either no longer exist or is mixed heavily, from what I heard.



Keywords: What I heard.



There's no telling what race they wore or if they had a race to identify. I'm pretty sure that Adam and Even didn't have a race we had today. Mind you a lot of events happened that killed up many races (e.g. Great flood, Israel's departure into the Byzantine Empire, random historical genocides by war, etc.). Just make an educated guess and run with it until better info comes out. That's how scientists work and that's how I work.

Answer 12

We were not there to see what their complexion was like. We do not know if they were white. But all people came from Adam and Eve. Dark skin color is an adaptation to warm climates. Places that do not get much sun will in many generations favor people with lighter skin. Black, white, red, yellow, brown people are not different races. They are all homo sapiens, which is one species. It is a human failing to think of different races and at the same time, think that we are all homo sapiens, which is a fact.

Answer 13

Adam was black Eve was white.

Answer 14

Adam and Eve were neither black nor white. May be they were reddish skinned or not, because they lived in the middle-east which, in the ancient times,was a hottest part. There is no way to prove it because they were present in this planet long long ago. We also know that, Adam was the first prophet in this earth and Eve his wife.so, we can assume that the couple were long, pretty and white.

Answer 15

Adam was black Eve was white.

Answer 16

It's pretty much impossible to tell what race Adam and Eve were that long ago. Paintings aren't accurate descriptions, only depictions. And while people say that because they were born in the Middle East, they must be dark-skinned, you can never know for sure. I doubt you could become so tan that you'd be black, honestly.

Either way, who cares? It doesn't change anything, whether they were white or black or Asian (kidding about the Asian thing, before you tell me I'm wrong). It doesn't add or take away from the Bible, so I don't understand why there's so much debate about it.

Answer 17

Because it is bothering me, you have to use "there", and not "their" in this case.



Anyway, you are right, that is a good question. How does religion explain the fact that people all over the world have extremely different phenotypes (genetic traits that impact outward appearances) , or just the diversity of animals in general? How do they explain the different species of humans all the way up to homo sapiens?



Evolution has a very detailed explanation that is reinforced with studies and continually analyzed by certified scientists. Of course, evolution does not start at Adam and Eve, and it does not end with human beings.



The most simplified answer of evolution is that a combination of genetic and environmental factors create what we know as the modern world.



What did the theists come up with? God did it. That's all you're going to really get from them.

Answer 18

Adam was white and Eve was black.

Answer 19

we do not know what race Adam and Eve were. Plus I think black skin is due to the sun. 'survival of the fittest' we all get a tan when we are under the sun for too long. Most Africans developed the black skin to survive the extreme weather. White skin is very sensitive to light and sun, this is why when white people especially Europeans go to Africa they find it very hard to cope.

Not being racist or anything. Sorry if I said anything racist.

Answer 20

The actual skin color of adam and eve, if they actually existed as claimed by the bible is indeterminate.

The EXACT location of th "Gaerden of Eden' is not exactly known. There are indications, if it were a physicl location on the planet, as THREE rivers merged to envelope it, that it may ahve been at the coastal area near the Red Sea, actaully from airiel archaeology, currently several miles into the Red Sea.

However, the exact climate of that time ( at least 10-15,000, perhaps 20,000 years ago at least) is not fully known. Thus temperature, heat index, atmosphere, and general habitability of that time is generally unkown. It was quite different from current conditions however.

One should be reminded, the climate of ancient Sumer and Akkad (both states at the gulf between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers) was enough to grow wheat, keep grass-feeding livestock, and have open homes and gardens in a stationary place, year round. Various artwork and sculptures of the time show people walking around in kilt-like dress and often, for men, no evidence of a shirt.

That is not possible in the current climate of any part of the middle east-clear to the Gulf of Aden-the terminus of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers at the Red Sea.

Consquently, your question, as far as Biblical historical importance is irrelavent.

Anthropologically, it never was, as humans did come from roughly central Africa at a time when that entire area was roughly open grassland several MILLION years ago.

Answer 21

First of all, it's 'were' not 'was'. Second of all, the Bible does not specify the race of any given individual, so how do you know Adam and Eve were white? The story is a metaphor for 'original sin' - its not a literal account, so Adam and Eve never existed as actual people.

Answer 22

Maybe Adam and Eve were black or on was black and the other white

Answer 23

Lol. Adam and Eve probably didn't exist in the first place. Besides, black people look black because of the environment they evolved in. Same thing with white people and Asians.

Answer 24

It's pretty much impossible to tell what race Adam and Eve were that long ago. Paintings aren't accurate descriptions, only depictions. And while people say that because they were born in the Middle East, they must be dark-skinned, you can never know for sure. I doubt you could become so tan that you'd be black, honestly.

Answer 25

How do you know that Adam and Eve were white?----You saw that on an old painting? What great proof!



Science tells us We ALL stated out in Africa.----Surprisingly, The reddish skinned African Bushmen are said to be our earliest form (interesting in the allegorical story in the Bible Adam was made from "red Clay") Depending on our environment, Some of us became Black and others of us lost our pigmentation and became white skinned.

Answer 26

If life started in Africa then they were black. Also, blacks (or people with black ancestry) are the only people who can make children of different colors. Whites can't do that. All races come from Africa, and just changed colors and physical features (like all other animals) to adapt to their environments and blend in with and survive in their surroundings. If you Google the Koisan African you'd see where the Asian comes from. If you Google Ethiopians, you'd see where East Indians come from. There is a theory that Caucasians are albino East Indians, and if you Google an albino east Indian you'd see that there is a resemblance. Every other ethnicity, like the Hispanic for example, is merely a mixture of two or more of these races.

Answer 27

It's pretty much impossible to tell what race Adam and Eve were that long ago. Paintings aren't accurate descriptions, only depictions. And while people say that because they were born in the Middle East, they must be dark-skinned, you can never know for sure.

Answer 28

Produce a body of Adam or Eve?

Answer 29

2 possibilities

1. Adam and Eve weren't white at all and were actually of a genetic make-up of what we would call "mixed-race". And also the only reason we believe they were white is because paintings made by white people just a few centuries ago that have never seen a black person before. (This is what I think happened.)

OR

2. If they were white, someone was born after them with a lot of pigment (black) and then had more children with a lot of pigment.

Answer 30

The story of Adam and Eve was likely a parable to teach people how to live their lives (e.g. avoid temptation [apple] to live a happy life), not a factual story.



Also, just logically, since bible stories take place in the middle east, if Adam and Eve were real people, they weren't white.

Answer 31

Adam and Eve were not white. They were probably not black. They came from Eden, probably located around the eastern portion of the Middle East. There are some exact locations that are contenders with convincing evidence, but I'll let you do your research.

Answer 32

Adam and Eve were not white

Answer 33

Adam and Eve didn't exist. It is a scientific fact that humans evolved. The white skin pigment is a genetic adaptation to living in a northerly latitude, where there is a lot less sunlight. It helps to synthesise Vitamin D.

Answer 34

There are two fundamental flaws in your question. The first is that 'Adam and Eve' are mythical creations. The second is that none of the myths state what 'colour' they were.



You might as well ask, in your vernacular, 'If Adam and Eve was black, how is their white people?"

Answer 35

I don't think Adam and Eve were white since the Garden of Eden was in Middle-eastern area.

Answer 36

Adam and Eve didn't Exist

Answer 37

Maybe Adam and Eve weren't white.

Answer 38

That's an easy one: Ham, son of Noah, was black. It is in the Bible. Now, how he got to be black ... well, scientifically speaking, there must have been a recessive gene in the DNA of the original Adam and Eve. I can sleep comfortably with that answer.

Answer 39

No pictures are available of Adam and Eve but the oldest DNA sample is from a north African woman the scientists for some reason called her Eve

Answer 40

The same way you have of mixing your mistakes of grammar. No agreement.



But seriously how to imagine a ethnicity of the first man and woman created? Adam and Eve were in the Garden, and the Garden was a metaphor for heaven. Adam was there to name all the species of life. The real issue is what language did they speak, and make most of our fellow creatures in that language.

Answer 41

Adam and Eve were only the ancestors of the Jews. White people are descended from various ancestral deities and Black folk are as well.

Answer 42

Where did you get the idea that Adam and Eve where "white?" I recall no reference to their skin colour in the bible.

In effect it is a non-question, along the lines of "How much noise does one hand make clapping?" Clapping requires two hands.

Adam and Eve are depicted as white in western classical art because the artists were white, as were the audiance the art was for.

I would assume that native Australian art from the same period depicted their mythical figures with the same skin coloring as their artists and audience - IE not white.

Answer 43

Genetic studies indicate that the oldest genomes are those of some African groups.



IMO, Adam and Eve could not have been white. (and I'm a white guy - well, actually more like iridescent than white)

Answer 44

Adam and Eve are White's concept. The Black might have their own version. Hinds had 'manu' and 'ila' as first man and woman. We need not answer questions arising from mythology- which is region/ race/ religion based.

Answer 45

There is nothing in the Bible saying what race or color Adam and Eve were,there is only one human race.Black people can come from White people via descent and vice versa

Answer 46

What is the origin of the races of mankind?

“Adam named his wife Eve, because she was to become the mother of everyone living.”—Genesis 3:20.

WHAT EXPERTS SAY The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) states that “all human beings belong to a single species and are descended from a common stock.”—Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice, 1978.

WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS God created two humans, Adam and Eve, and he said to them: “Be fruitful and become many, fill the earth and subdue it.” (Genesis 1:28) Thus, Adam and Eve came to be the father and mother of all humankind. Later, when a flood wiped out most of the earth’s population, four couples survived—Noah and his wife along with their three sons and their wives. The Bible teaches that all of us descended from Noah’s sons.—Genesis 9:18, 19.

Genesis:10:1-32. The two records of genealogy surrounding the account of the Flood—chapters 5 and 10—connect the entire human race with the first man, Adam, through Noah’s three sons. Assyrians, Chaldeans, Hebrews, Syrians, and some Arabian tribes, are descendants of Shem. Ethiopians, Egyptians, Canaanites, and some African and Arabian tribes descended from Ham. Indo-Europeans are descendants of Japheth. All humans are related, and all are born equal before God. (Acts 17:26) This truth must affect how we view and treat others.

For more information on this subject go to the source below click on "Online Library" Also for free downloads, publications or read on line.

Answer 47

Adam and Eve may have been more of a story and not actual fact. Whether it is or not I don't know. The important message is that man sins and God has made a way for us to be reconciled to Himself.

Answer 48

Assuming Adam and Eve existed as white people, over time external factors (such as environment, nutrition etc) expose groups of humans to different conditions that can lead to genetic mutations to better suit their lifestyle. Skin colour is caused by pigments in our skin. So darker people have different pigments than lighter people that may be attributed to mutations over time and reproduction from these individuals.

Answer 49

If the story of Adam and Eve is true The Theory of Natural selection the the reason for this. As the population grew, humans spread across Earth, some going to hotter dryer environments, some to colder damper environments. Over generations we evolve (this takes millions of years), our body chooses the strongest characteristics for our environment and uses it for the DNA of the future generation. This may be why there're are different characteristics, forexample skin colour.

Answer 50

white woman white man had a black baby ofcours they thought she cheated but when her grandfather visited he said her child looks like his great grandfather and he was black so it skipped a generations although i asked this question many time i still dont know the right answer genes probablly mutated u should realize that everyone in this world is related in someway if people would search for a specific DNA i think everyone has that, i have another example my cousin was born white he lives in a warm environment and got darker and became brown even if he went to live in a cold country his skin is still dark , maybe this is one of those reason also this is my speculation

Answer 51

No, that's a perfectly reasonable question. I mean it's an obvious evidence that brings the whole Bible into doubt.



Even furthermore since all of the human race's genepool got bottlenecked after the Noachian flood.



Well, from a strictly biblical standpoint, Genesis 9 tells us...



22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness.

24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him,

25 he said,"Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers."

26 He also said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem.

27 May God extend the territory of Japheth; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave."[2]



So you see, Ham saw his father naked, so he received the curse of Ham.



Now a non-biblical Jewish text, the Talmud says



Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 108b: "Three copulated in the ark, and they were all punished—the dog, the raven, and Ham. The dog was doomed to be tied, the raven expectorates, and Ham was smitten in his skin"



So, smitten can mean "beaten" What happens to white skin when it's beaten? It turns dark.



So, Judeo-Christinaically speaking, Ham did some bad stuff, this cursed him, his skin turned dark and dark people are meant to be slaves.



Isn't religion wonderful?

Answer 52

Scientifically speaking, they never existed. However, humanity's origins are in Africa, and so the first humans (the evolutionary Adam & Eve, if you will) were not white. As a result of human migration, our physical characteristics developed into what they are now, thus creating the physical distinctions of each race.

Answer 53

Adam and Eve never existed.

Answer 54

Because Adam and Eve cannot be real

Answer 55

It is possible for 2 white people to have a black baby. Very uncommon.



According to the TV show 'House' a girl can get pregnant without anyone else.

Extremely rare im sure.

Answer 56

The pigmentation of people in different regions of the world changed to accommodate their environment. (Adaptation) Africans produce more melanin to avoid sunburn in their hot environments, and white people in places like North America didn't have to because the sun wasn't hitting them in the same intensity it does in Africa.



Well at least that's what science says.



Then again Adam and Eve has absolutely nothing to do with science so I guess my answer isn't credible,

Answer 57

We don't know the exact race of Adam and Eve. The Bible doesn't tell us. But even assuming they were white, there was a racial division after the Deluge. That was through Noah's spring and it's reflected in the 9th and most particularly in the 10th chapter of Genesis. In fact, this chapter is popularly called "the table of Nations" for this reason. Superficially appears to be only a table of genealogies. But it's more than that: this marvelous chapter explains the origin of several important civilizations. The Greeks, for instance, are descendants of Japhet, the Egyptians are represented there as the Mizraimites, etc. Besides this, several of the names has a special meaning in the Hebrew language. Cus is the father of the Cusites, that is, the Ethyopians. It's pretty interesting to know that Cus means "black". Some other camite names has a simmilar meaning. So, represented here, in Genesis 10, is the origen of the nations, and also the origin of the races.



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Answer 58

Adam and Eve never existed.

Answer 59

Please learn basic syntax when writing. Your question should read: 'If Adam and Eve were white, how did Black people arrive in the world?' There are other ways to express this question of course, but people will pay more attention to you if you express yourself properly.

Answer 60

Who said hey were Caucasian???? The bible didnlt say thta. Adam and Eve was not even in a European land. They were in a more African land. So, what make you think they were? God can dso anything. He could have made one of them Caucasian and on of them African American. NO one will ever know, because he never mentioned it in the bible. It seem lie everyone wants to claim Adam and Eve, but no one really can.

Answer 61

Your skin changes gradually over time after generations to accommodate the climate you re in. Warmer climates consist of darker-skinned people than very cold climates so that their skin can bare the hot sun. So as people move all over the world, and after many, many generations, their skin changes colour based on where they are.

Also, Adam and Ever wouldn t have been very pale skinned white people, their skin would have been a bit darker since they lived close to the middle east.

Answer 62

Going by where Adam and Eve were from, they wouldn't have been *white*.

Answer 63

There was no particular race at that time, however; when Adam and Eve began to have children, they were all different, in time they began to migrate to different parts of the earth separating themselves by the language they spoke. This was all after the flood in Noah's day....hope this helps

Answer 64

Adam and Eve were white because that was how Christianity perceived them, so that was and still is how it is perceived today. If being narrow minded works out well, then why change it?

Answer 65

Most of us think of Europe as the ancestral home of white people. But a new study shows that pale skin, as well as other traits such as tallness and the ability to digest milk as adults, arrived in most of the continent relatively recently. The work, presented here last week at the 84th annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, offers dramatic evidence of recent evolution in Europe and shows that most modern Europeans don’t look much like those of 8000 years ago.

Answer 66

Adam and Eve wasn't White.

Well actually they didn't exist .. but anyway .. White people ''evolved from'' Black people.

Answer 67

We don't know what color Adam and Eve were. But we do know that there was one race in the beginning until at the Tower of Babel God split them into different races and languages to created the nations of the world. That is how.

Answer 68

How is "there" black people



All modern humans evolved in Africa, and as such, were once all black. The whiteness came along when modern humans interbred with Neanderthal man, and the evolution of generations living in the colder and wetter climates of Europe.



It stands to reason, that Adam and Eve, the first humans, were black.

Answer 69

It is believed by many people that the three sons of Adam and Eve (Cain, Abel, Seth) ended up leaving where they were born (in or beside Iraq) and went in three different directions. One went west and entered land known now as Europe, one went east and entered land known now as Asia and one went south and entered land known now as Africa.



Many believe that this resulted in three skin colors: white, black/'brown and yellowish.

Answer 70

Adam and eve are a myth. The first humans were probably dark skinned. Most scientists agree that human life started in Africa. As is now,there were variations in skin tones .As people migrated out of Africa , lighter skinned people found that they fared better in cooler climates, while darker people survived well in tropical climates. Isolation of populations also emphasized characteristics such as skin color, hair texture, and facial features.

Answer 71

The way it was explained to me is that they both had the entire genetic code of every race in they're codes as they had children the code along with different skin tones spread out i suspect they were both tan based on logic also the event at the tower of babel held the key to the rest of the story it says that this is were God divided the people by confusion of tongues there are differences of opinion on what order these happened as far as races formed but thats a simple version i could give you an in depth version if by chance we meet huhu

Answer 72

Keep reading. . . . there's A LOT more to the Book of Genesis that just Adam and Eve!

Answer 73

Adam and Eve were put here to enhance the original races,they were aliens ,from a spiritual realm.and Jesus ,who in that realm is known as Michael.And he ,through the Father is the creator of this part of eternity...

Answer 74

Some Christians believe that Ham was cursed to be black, when he saw his father Noah naked. But it's sort of an assumption. Also, some believe they stemmed from the 12 Tribes of Israel. And finally, evolution could have been the answer.

Answer 75

Adam and Eve are fictional characters in a fictional book called The Bible. Research evolution and you will find that there are black people because they evolved in hot parts of the world, and their skin darkened to protect them from the sun, whereas white people evolved in colder and less sunny parts of the world, and therefore didn't need the heightened skin protection and evolved to be paler.

Answer 76

Obviously, Adam had a big black **** in Eve and were the first baby daddy ever.

Answer 77

They are fictional people. As fictional people they can be any colour.

Cain, their son, went to the land of Nod to get a wife. The wife was not his sister as a child could not have survived alone in a distant country, so who were the people living in Nod?

Our African ancestor called Eve was named after the biblical Eve

Answer 78

We will never know what race Adam and Eve were, but their descendants became different races due to mutations in DNA and through variations in melanin. Those mutations and variations were passed on to the person's children, and then grandchildren, and by then, it was hereditary.

Answer 79

It's a scientific fact that the birth place of man started in Africa, meaning the oldest human bones ever found were found in Africa. Meaning Adam and Eve were not white, but black.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index_section2.shtml

Answer 80

Adam and Eve is a fairly tale.

Answer 81

maybe they were white, it's just that the drawings are white



if there was Adam and Eve, why do scientists talk about evolution?

Answer 82

I don't really know but at church my sunday school teacher told me that god punished bad people by burning them so much they turned black. P.s it's not adam and eve its adam and steve.

Answer 83

How do you know their skin colour? I suppose because they're mythical they can be any colour you want. I would imagine that most people think they're white because that's how European artists would have portrayed them. As modern humans evolved from Africa I suspect that they had darker skins with large quantities of melanin produced to protect against the Sun.

Answer 84

"Adam and Eve" is all just an allegorical story. It was a method of teaching about the Lord. So they technically didn't exist.

Answer 85

Nobody really knows what Adam and Eve were, actually. And the different skin pigments that people get are due to recessive genes or skin disorders, you don't have to have dark-skinned parents to have dark skin yourself.

Answer 86

No one exactly knows what color Adam and eves skin was averting just thinks it was white

Answer 87

Scientific inquiries follow a logical sequence and therefore your first question should be If Adam and Eve even existed? If they did then we can debate on their skin phenotype.

Answer 88

Well after many Christians believe we blacks are the children of Cain (who was evil, which is something they used against us during slavery).



I don't believe it could be.



Then later on Noah cursed the son who had a black wife and all of their children (so again the "colored" are cursed) this was also used against us.



Basically to me, although I believe in God and some biblical values, things have changed.

Answer 89

Adam and Eve was the Holy People of Allah They Were white skinned

they can t ever be black not at that time not now ...........

because they Were enlightened by the Noor of Allah Almighty ........

it would be foolish to say that They were not really exist ......

be carefull to say anything that u really don t know because Allah is seeing and hearing you,,,,,,,,,,,,

Answer 90

1 human made in gods image then the woman start then a few off the boat did it again yes can tan so dark from white to black blacker then some black folk lol even black sunburn lol old testament king james 1 god many names

Answer 91

Adam and Eve are myths.

Answer 92

The first people were not white :) Thats just the mainstream corrupted churches view of them. God made them with the possibility of huge variations. The Bible tells us that Noahs sons were the forefathers of the european, asian and african groups of people, each taking their families different directions where they would have bred into a "look" just as we see today in very short periods of time how people develop a common look/colouring/speech pattern.

Answer 93

I doubt it. For one Africa was the only continent that we could live in back then, because other places were too cold, to hit, and under water,

Africa is luke warm and a study has proven that East Africa was the only place back then that humans could live in.

We'll never know what they looked like, it was so long ago, and those paintings are innacurrent, those painters more likely painted their depiction of them.

Only painted them from what they thought they looked like. Only god knows what they look like.

Since they were more likely in Africa, then they probably were a mixture of all races/ ethnicities of the world and through out history.

You never know. God creates other people.

Answer 94

we all emerged form the cradle of Life South Africa we evolved from their and in Cooler climates we Lightened



then God CHOSE Adam and made Eve from Adams Rib and they were chosen to live in the garden of Eden



his Big Mistake he gave them Freedom of Choice and eve ate the apple showing God we will make More Mistakes as we evolve

Answer 95

Adam and Eve are not real honey,we evolved from monkeys.

Answer 96

Due to environmental effects....

Just make a white American baby lived in Africa, after 30 years he shall become a complete black because extreme heat caused by equator line.

Answer 97

Adam and Eve doesn t exist, it s just a metaphor. There were no eye witnesses so how would we know?

Answer 98

Humans started in Africa and spread out across the world and with new climates people start the adaptation process where they develop genetic mutations which give them the ability to survive more easily. For example people with darker skin have more pigments which give them the ability to not be affected by solar radiation as much as people with lighter skin tones.

Answer 99

Are you sure that there were Adam and Eve?

Answer 100

Adam and Eve were middle eastern. And fictional.

Answer 101

There is no evidence that Adam and Eve were white. They could well have been any color. Remember, there is only one race: the human race. "Racial" characteristics such as skin color, body structure, hair type, etc., are only the results of micro-evolution (the only type of evolution that exists).

Answer 102

who said they were white? The Bible doesn't say what color either of them was or whether they were the same color just that Adams rib was used in Eve.

Answer 103

Adam was black...



“And (remember) when your Lord said to the angels: ‘I am going to create a human (Adam) from sounding clay of altered black smooth mud. So when I have fashioned him and breathed into him (his) soul created by Me, then you fall down prostrate to him.” (Quran 38:71-72)



The Quran is inline with science as well.

Answer 104

adam and eve is a story

Answer 105

Hmm, maybe this will help you figure this question out. I am not one to try to make someone believe anything, I just suggest that everyone does research on anything they may have questions about and I also think it's the just another perspective to how we became who we are. I don't believe or disbelief, I much rather just say that all is just information.



www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFMebacEUt4

Answer 106

It is probably racially bias art work. Who knows. They have black Jesus painting's and people even ask if the Buddha was light skinned or dark skinned. Yet in heart , does it really matter???

Answer 107

Well? Hebrew religious mythology is only 6000 years old, so ...that presents a problem?



....and the human form started walking upright some 3 million years ago, that seems to allow for a little form variance and continental migration?

Answer 108

"Most of us think of Europe as the ancestral home of white people. But a new study shows that pale skin, as well as other common traits like tallness and the ability to digest milk as adults, evolved relatively recently among Europeans."

Answer 109

Yea, they were black and without evolution there would be no white people. This is a serious problem for the less intelligent of our christian brothers.

Answer 110

Such an easy answer. When two people join the chromosomes which come up are never the same. It can result in a few traits and different features

Answer 111

Who knows if they were black, white or any other race. Theres no way of knowing that. America is just white washed.

Answer 112

This is a good question.

You will know the answers when you study the bible, biology, history and much more later in life. For now, concentrate on writing well and grammar. Best thing to do is read, read, read a lot.

Answer 113

The first humans were black because all of our ancestors originated from Africa, then migrated to Europe and other less hot regions and our skin pigmentation evolved.

Answer 114

Maybe were all descendants from different colored alien races. Like black aliens or white aliens like Pleiades. The black ones are from black aliens like Lucian from League of Legends or some **** like that. Mexicans are from like aztec aliens and ****. Think about it. Like root lanaguages latin greek ect

Answer 115

Unfortunately, we are mutations of relative relations xD lol I suppouse that ideal color was black, but because of mixing between brothers and sisters, or other cousins, gene mutation occurred so we turned out white. xD Just my little theory, don't get me wrong. :D

Answer 116

The colour doesnt mostly depend on genetics but as generations passed man adopt to natue environment to resist the diseases in that zone increasing immunity and standard of living.

Answer 117

Colour came according to the climate and environmental conditions of that region. In the hot climate our body produce a enzyme which makes us black. that's all.

Answer 118

their black people? adam and eve didn't have black people. their garden was pretty good.

Answer 119

Actually Adam peace be upon him was black.:)

Answer 120

This indicates that you respect peoples differences by race or culture to understand equality, if we all came from the same tribe or race how we will understand or know the meaning of equality as we all come together as one community.

Answer 121

in some stories they say adam was indeed black and in other say they were both 'tanned' or 'dark skinned' and the area they lived in had affected on their tones

Answer 122

Either way, who cares? It doesn't change anything, whether they were white or black or Asian (kidding about the Asian thing, before you tell me I'm wrong). It doesn't add or take away from the Bible, so I don't understand why there's so much debate about it.

Answer 123

Im not really informed on it, but i think its because as they're children spread throughout the world and reproduced the different climate conditions in different parts differently effected them causing them to change in appearance from their original parents

Answer 124

Perhaps Over Exposure to Sunlight ?

Answer 125

No one knows really if they were white or black or mixed

Answer 126

wasn't there this time when the people in those times tried to build a tower to heaven to meet God and see if he was real or not, and God knocked down their tower and made them all speak different languages so they could no longer communicate to build the tower again, i think at that time he also created races?

Answer 127

Sweetly just they just got a little burnt from the sun. Don't worry we are all white

Answer 128

Adam & Eve are made up bullish*t just like the bible !!!1

Answer 129

Who said they were white? I'm not sure what they looked like. I think that genetic diversity came after them.

Answer 130

THEY WEREN T WHITE EVEN IF THEY DID EXIST THEY WOULD PROBABLY BE SOME SHADE OF BROWN CONSIDERING THEY LIVED IN THE FERTILE CRESCENT OF MESOPOTAMIA OR MODERN DAY MIDDLE EAST. HUMANITY IS SPAWNED FROM AFRICA. WHITE PEOPLE ONLY EXIST BC THEY LIVED IN CAVES IN THE FRIGID COLD AFTER PEOPLE MIGRATED OUT OF AFRICA AND THEIR SKIN LIGHTENED IN ORDER TO MAXIMIZE AMOUNT OF VITAMIN D THEIR SKIN CAN ABORSD, THIS IS WHY BLACK PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN NORTHERN AREAS MAY SUFFER FROM A VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY.

Answer 131

If you follow the bible somewhere in genesis it tells us about a guy named Cush who was a descendant of Ham who was a son to Noah and was cursed to be black Cush was one of the three brothers all with names meaning BLACK hope my answer was of help.(GENESIS 10)

Answer 132

Genesis doesn't say what race Adam was.

Answer 133

Big world. Many parts of it could darken anyone's skin tone over a period of time.

Answer 134

Eve was a big time coal burner

Answer 135

dont believe the adam and eve story..it just didnt happen that way.

Answer 136

Why does it matter? We're just here. Whatever happened back then is the reason....and asking random people in general won't answer your question the way you'd want it...

Answer 137

There was no adam and eve,no god either.

Answer 138

Apes

Answer 139

there was no adam and eve. do you claim that you can trace the origin of homo sapiens to two individuals, and you even know their names? how petty

Answer 140

They were ancestors of Mary & Joseph, so brown skin, or reddish sins Adam means that.

Answer 141

Who says they were white?

Answer 142

Genetic mutation

Answer 143

The races are pretty good evidence of evolution. DNA shows a common parent like the Bible says. .

Answer 144

Dude they actually went wight they were probably black or tanned the Europeans though were racist and wanted them to be wight. And just so you know jesus was black or tanned to.

Answer 145

It's not a true story, it's a fable. You can make them any color you want. Because their color doesn't matter. It's all about what they did, and why.

Answer 146

The first humans came from Africa and were not white but dark skinned.

Answer 147

Mutation.

Answer 148

I guessing one was black and the other one was white

Answer 149

I think is depends on where you live, and how much you are exposed to the Sun over a very very long period of time.

Answer 150

Evolution or Adaptation of a species.

Answer 151

black people came first, white man EVOLVED as we moved to colder climates!

Answer 152

They weren't white.

Answer 153

Who said they were white?

Answer 154

There are no black people, some of us are wither than others.

Answer 155

they were black,accept it or not the beginning of man started as a black people.

Answer 156

They got under a tree too many times, so they got a tree tan.

Answer 157

Genetic mutation.

Answer 158

if true, have the recessive gene in black in adam and eva

Answer 159

Darwin had a very interesting theory when he studied Pigeons, you should check it out.

Answer 160

Religion is pure nonsense, that's why, and only brainless sheep believe it.

Answer 161

adam and eve is a bullshit story.

Answer 162

What "color" people "look like" today does not depend on what any two particular people looked like at the beginning of "creation". More recent factors in human development determined what "color" anyone is today.

Answer 163

Just another reason for finding bibles suspect.

Answer 164

They weren't even physical beings, they were spiritual entities that would have been invisible to the naked eye.

Answer 165

look eve wash her minge in the river and now all fish smell the same

Answer 166

The Bible is not real. It was simply created to try and make people be good. It obviously failed.

Answer 167

if adam and eve were real we wld all be incest children

Answer 168

black people are black to protect themselves from the sun

Answer 169

Good Question!!! You made me think. That means all humans are brothers and sisters???

Answer 170

they are the result of incest of adam and eves kids.

Answer 171

they never existed the traits got passed on from the males and females of every race that existed long ago

Answer 172

Ask your President!

Answer 173

Some religions claim that it's because 'god' cursed them (which is patently retarded).

Answer 174

Someone among the descendants drank too much coffee.

Answer 175

God tossed in some spice here and there throughout the years.

Answer 176

Only God knows

Answer 177

None of them

Answer 178

Why assume they were white.

Answer 179

7 tribes of isreal.

then ask yourself where did chinese people come from? english? african? middle east? spanish? etc...

if you ask biblical questions, then if you read the bible, you may find your answers.

Answer 180

The first humans came from Africa and were undoubtedly dark skinned. The fairy story isn't real so there is no answer there.

Answer 181

o my god we are two deferent people, we are not the same or look the same or mentally or structurally the Sam, do not forget we have the ones that are have bread

Answer 182

this will upset liberals; evolution states that man evolved from apes in Africa.

Answer 183

History can not assume

Answer 184

Nooone knows,

but I would say it is darker

Answer 185

because the bible was fabricated way before the people who made it up knew of black people.

Answer 186

thats just a theory that people who believe in god think

Answer 187

See Song of SOLOMON, KJV: then return and Share who you believe is the MUTANT, and who is the DEGENERATE...0303/2015

Answer 188

who said they were white?

Answer 189

why do you think they were white? we really dont know. they might have looked like Hebrews, dont know

Answer 190

because of different climate people changed

Answer 191

they fell in mud and got black, fell in sand and got asian. Is it that hard? :)

Answer 192

we brothers one and all, just ingorants prevales, someday , we meet , not mater what you believe and my sisters too

Answer 193

Evolution, my dear.

Answer 194

They ate

Answer 195

Really? Your answer is, evolution.

Answer 196

The bible is not an historical account, genius.

Answer 197

God isn't real bible is man made

Answer 198

well someone stay in the sun to much i guess

Answer 199

Maybe the whole story is b u l l s h i t.



Did you ever think of that?

Answer 200

None can say what color they bore.

Answer 201

Cuz God burnt a few.:)

Answer 202

space aliens.

Answer 203

cause that whole thing is fake

Answer 204

you're a racist and you're gonna go to hell.

Answer 205

they might not have even existed

Answer 206

Sex in the dark will do that

Answer 207

YOUR QUESTION DOESN'T MAKE ANY GRAMMATICAL SENSE DUMBASS

Answer 208

because god burnt the first one, pure and simple...

Answer 209

nobody knows what color their skin was.

Answer 210

Its called go **** yourself stupid catholic

Answer 211

Yet another flaw in the bible...

Answer 212

Melanin is the answer.

Answer 213

Why do you think they were?

Answer 214

evoluton.

Answer 215

Allah know all

Answer 216

you sure are showing your education..... well.. the lack there of......

Answer 217

no

Answer 218

oh

Answer 219

there

Answer 220

*Curious

Answer 221

oh my..