Where in the Bible does it talk about God creating people and their differences, for example skin color, hair texture, eye color etc.?
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trevman
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Well in the story "the Tower of Babel" the peoples of the world came together to make a huge tower to reach the heavens. In seeing this God became angry and confused them by giving them different languages and skin colors...that is pretty much the Bible's explination...(for the record...I do not believe this)
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There's no where in the Bible that specifically mentions creating people with a lot of differences. The only creation account is in Genesis and that is about Adam and Eve. He doesn't tell us their skin, hair, eye color. I believe our genes have always had information for color variety. Side note: God didn't change people's skin color at the Tower of Babel. He just changed their languages. The purpose was to cause confusion so that they wouldn't be able to organize themselves and continue building.
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Difference in skin color essentially comes from the sun. People who live near the equator need very dark skin with a lot of melanin, both to protect from skin cancer and because white people who get a lot of sun suffer drastic drops in their folate levels. People who live away from the equator need lighter skins so they can get enough vitamin D from less direct sunlight, and in winter when only their hands and faces show. (People in the very far north who live where they can get ocean fish can have dark skin because they can get vitamin D from fish livers.) The Bible never mentions either hair or eye color.
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Remember, the Bible does not exhaustively describe the details of our lives. It chronicles approximately a 1600 year period of Hebraic history through the first century of the church sandwiched between the origin (in the book, Genesis) and end (in the book, Revelation) of the heavens and earth. In other words, there are a lot of matters that the Bible addresses with more attention from creation to God's final judgment than eye color, hair texture, etc. --- It does however, generally speak of God forming a person in the mother's womb. The details that you asked about are implied, but not specified. "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well" (Psalm 139:13-14). Hope this helps.
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I think the story of Noahs Ark is the closest we get to it. The 3 sons of Noa become the fathers of each their 'race'.
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What the hell has god got to do with it ? There is very very very little difference between any of the races and evolution can explain all of them !
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