How Did All the Different “Races” Arise?
(Information quoted and taken from The Revised & Expanded Answers Book by Don Batten, Ken Ham, Jonathan Sarfati, and Carl Wieland, chapter 18 online.) According to God’s Word, all humans on earth today are descended from Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives, and before that from Adam and Eve. All the factors for skin color were present in Adam and Eve. The amount of the skin pigment melanin determines skin color, just as the amount of fat around the eye determines eye shape. Modern genetics show how, following a break-up of a population [such as the Tower of Babel], variations in skin color, for example, can develop in only a few generations. The biological differences between the “races” today are not very great. In fact, the DNA of any two people in the world would typically differ by just 0.2 percent! Of this, only 6 percent can be linked to racial categories; the rest is “within race” variation. There is really only one race—the human race. The Bible teaches us that Go
