Someone inquires about the origin of the races that populate the earth. Whereas the atheistic evolutionist attributes everything to his illogical and unprovable theory of evolution, Bible believers are confident that all which exists is the result of creation by God (Genesis 1:1). As such, we look to our first parents – Adam and Eve (Genesis 2:7, 21-23; 3:20) – as representing the original gene pool from which their descendants of varying skin pigments and additional physical characteristics have come down to the present. From consideration of verifiable or true science, is it even possible for one set of parents over the space of just as little as perhaps 6,000 years to produce the various races of humanity? Yes! Please note the article at the following link, whereby you can see for yourself: https://apologeticspress.org/APContent.aspx?category=9&article=82.
In addition to the original gene pool possessing the wherewith to result in the racial variables discernible today, God periodically made changes to the physical world in which mankind was originally placed. These changes affected humanity both directly and indirectly.
The topography of planet earth dramatically changed respecting the events surrounding the universal flood of Noah’s day (Genesis 6-8). Mountains pushed upward. Oceans were formed. In turn, especially in the absence of the cloud canopy that had distributed an equalized climate across the globe, oceans and mountains effected weather patterns not known by man before – some of which are agreeable as well as some that are catastrophic (e.g., tornados, hurricanes, etc.).
The eight souls aboard the ark represented a sampling of the gene pool and the variations that occurred since the time of Adam and Eve. In addition, the gene pool was limited to those eight persons as opposed to being affected by the larger gene pool that perished in the flood. Had there been more people representing additional combinations of genes with which to mix in the offspring of Noah’s children, theoretically, the results might have differed somehow from what exists today. These are some possible indirect affects upon the races by changes that God made after the original creation.
Later, God reacted to mankind’s reluctance to spread across the globe as originally instructed to do (Genesis 1:28; 8:15-17). Mankind had settled and found contentment on a mud-plain between the Persian Gulf and the northeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. There man built the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9). God, though, came down and confused the languages of the people so that they could not understand each other. Subsequently, those of the same language congregated together as the people parted from each other and spread themselves across the planet – as God had originally instructed them to do.
It is reasonable to ponder whether people sharing the same God-given language may have shared other physical, racial characteristics as well. Or, did God distinguish people from each other at that time by the pigment of their skin and other physical characteristics in addition to confusing the languages? At any rate, from the time of the Tower of Babel onward, people scattered across the planet – distinguished from each other by both their languages and their racial characteristics.
In the strictest sense, there is only one race – the human race. We are all the offspring of God (Acts 17:29), irrespective of what language we may speak, the color of our skin or other physical characteristics. “And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth…” (Acts 17:26 NKJV). Ultimately, we all have to thank for our racial diversity father Adam and mother Eve. Of more consequence, though, is that we are the offspring of God – made in His image, spiritually (Genesis 1:26).
