I think it was at the tower of babel... God was angry that they were trying to get to heaven... sooo he confused them by screwing up their languages! They were no longer able to build... It was utter confusin! Soooo... the only thing I can think of... Is they moved to different regions of the world and adapted... Just an opinion...

No. The Bible does not speak to the origin of "races" (meaning how people came to look different). Outside the Bible I have seen scenarios assembled by people who speculate something like Noah's sons had slightly different genetic makup and their three wives likewise. That would give enough possible recombinations of appearance genes... etc. But that is extrapolation based on information that is not explicitly in the Bible. If a Creator God exists He could have used any mechanism (natural or supernatural) to differentiate populations. I don't personally see any reason to speak of races being "formed." I don't think there are significant differences between the human "races." Hair and skin color dominance in various places may simply be natural selection operating in different environments. Distinctive facial features could happen with any population separated for some period of time.

Well, the only Biblical mandate in this regard was the command to be fruitful and multiply, and to fill the Earth. Then, the Tower of Babel incident occurred, which scattered the people by differing languages, precisely because of their pride and arrogance, their desire to unite together and exalt themselves up to the heavens. The following link, though, is an excellent article that looks at the Biblical passages of the "Table of Nations" as recorded in Genesis 10, and how that relates to all our known historical documents regarding the early races of mankind. http://www.soundchristian.com/man/

on a genetic level the difference in a person's skin is no different than the difference in the color of our eyes or hair. Some people have blue eyes, others brown, others green and so on. The same applies to our skin, to say otherwise is to say that someone of a different skin color is not human. We all have a different genetic make-up that lends to variances in our appearance.

It's not strictly Biblical, just obvious--the sun did the job. People with too-light skin in the tropics tend to get a lot of skin cancer and die, or lose folate much faster than their diets can replace it and I forget what debilitating disease that causes. And people with too-dark skin who move too far north got rickets and cancers of the breast, colon and prostate, and died because all the melanin in their skin prevented the ergosterol in the skin from absorbing ultraviolet light and turning into Vitamin D. National Geographic had a good diagram a few years back showing that skin color and closeness to the equator were almost directly related, except for dark-skinned people who live near seacoasts and can get Vitamin D from seafood. Fish livers, I think. Incidentally, those Sunday-school pictures showing Adam and Eve as white people are impossible, drawn by people who don't understand these facts. Adam and Eve would have had really deep tans, with skins that never got as white as Europeans'. Also, since my job title for the Ukrainian Bible Society is "translation expert," I'd like to say that the idea that the mark of Cain was black skin is not true, is not even hinted at in the original language.

the 7 tribes of abraham

Yes. Other 'people' were on the earth in the beginning... Other 'sons of God'... Not just Adam and Eve. Genesis 6:4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown. All other races came from that episode. The Israelitic 'race' was then fiercly protected to ensure the purity of the line in order for the messiah to come. No mixing was allowed. Whole lotta mixing going on now though... :-)

I sincerely doubt it. There's no such thing as race anyway in modern science, just a big field of minuscule genetic variation with reasonably undefinable boundaries.

It may not be in either the Old or the New Testament but there is a mention of it in the Last Testament better known as the Holy Qur'an. HQ 49:13 says "O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that ye may know one another. Lo! the noblest of you, in the sight of God, is the one best in conduct. Lo! God is Knower, Aware."

Here is your answer: Genesis 11 1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

In the Mormon religion at first there were only white people. When the fight between God and Lucifer happened, Lucifer and his angels were turned into demons/devils and the angels that remained neutral during the battle were turned into black people. wtf, right? What do Mormons know anyway! :P

Maybe, Maybe not. I believe when God changed the lanquage, he also changed the peoples skin color and scattered everyone across the world, and no matter what color your skin is you're still Gods people and he loves you. And no people are better than another set of people, we are all equal in Gods site, he created us all. We are his sons and daughters. Theres certain things in the bible no one knows the real answer, and it doesn't matter, the scriptures say we will know when it's time, our biggest command right now in the New Testament is to 1. Love the Heavenly Father with all our heart, and 2. Love your neighbor ( all people all over the world are your neighbors ). and then he says to hang the other commandments on these two commandments. Matthew 22: 37-40

The tower of Babel, God scattered the people because they were murmuring in one language and then they just adapted to their environments.