Why did we get different races under Christianity.

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My friend and I was debating on the topic about different races if we followed Christianity. It says the first two humans were Adam and Eve, so supposedly they are white or any other race for that matter, moving along, how did we get other races like asian, african, etc. Could it be one of their offspring somewhere along the way had like a sunburn or something and the child got some of his properties? And it kept going?

And also, take away Christianity. How did we get different races under human evolution?

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Sons of Noah
This link is a summary of once popular thought. Good starting point. I don't endorse it, just passing it along.

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Which mutations are barred under 'rules of microevolution'?


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Those which God didn't program.

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Is this 2+2 "levelling"?

[Duke]

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Which mutations are barred under 'rules of microevolution'?


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Those which God didn't program.

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Is this 2+2 "levelling"?

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You must be new here. No, he's serious.

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Is this 2+2 "levelling"?


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Ok, which mutations are barred under 'rules of chance + impersonal natural law'?

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None of them.

But the ones that don't end up reproducing themselves are unlikely to occur frequently in nature.

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None of them.


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So a cow could mutate to a bald eagle? Though it would be a short-lived species, I guess.

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None of them.


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So a cow could mutate to a bald eagle? Though it would be a short-lived species, I guess.

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Yes. But, is it more likely than 1 in a googol?

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I guess it would be something like saying that Everest could be weathered by one tornado into being an exact copy of Mont Blanc, but I can't see a thought-experiment problem with it at the extremes of chance.

Of course, cow DNA happens to reasonably accurately and consistently build new cows. As you said, big errors tend to be short lived since chance isn't good at building repeatability.

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chance isn't good at building repeatability.


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Chance should take some lessons from God.

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chance isn't good at building repeatability.


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Chance should take some lessons from God.

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I guess chance is to blame for the mule, then.