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发帖数: 1648 | 1 WHAT COLOR WAS ADAM?
In western countries, nearly every imaginative painting of Adam and Eve
depict two adult Caucasians with fair skin and blue eyes. These images, even
used as Bible illustrations, tend to shape the reader's mental image of the
first man and woman. The Sunday-school origin of the dark races is often
that they were descendants of Adam and Eve who had migrated to a hot climate
where the suntan eventually became an inherited characteristic. These
images and explanations discredit Christianity.
The true explanation began to be resolved in 1913 when it was shown that
human beings carry two genes for color and that each gene consists of "black
" or "white" alleles. One allele was received from the mother and the other
from the father. The allele is part of the gene, and the gene is part of the
DNA – while the DNA resides in the nucleus of every cell in our body. Our
skin color is caused by the pigment melanin, and this is controlled by two
pairs of genes that geneticists refer to using the letter designations Aa
and Bb, where the capital letter represents dominant genes and the small
letters represent recessive genes. A and B, being dominant, produce melanin
in good quantity while recessive a and b produce only a minor amount of
melanin. Hence, our coloration depends upon the number of black and white
alleles we received from our parents. The color genes express themselves in
only one place – specialized skin cells called the melanocytes – that
produce granules of melanin that are delivered to neighboring cells.
Eve was made from Adam's rib and was thus a clone of Adam [Genesis 2:21-22].
They would therefore have had identical genes for melanin production. If
they were both AABB, they would have been Negroid and produced children of
only the darkest of Negroid coloration. If this were the case, the world's
population today would be entirely Negro. In fact, only about 10% of the
world's population is Negro, so we can be certain that our first parents
were not of the AABB combination. By the same argument, if Adam and Eve had
both been aabb, all their children would have been aabb meaning that all
their descendants would be the lightest Caucasoid possible – there would be
no other colors. Clearly, this is not the case, so by a process of
deduction we can conclude that Adam and Eve were heterozygous, each having
two dominant and two recessive genes, AaBb. They would thus have been middle
-brown in color and from them, in one generation, the various shades of
brown would have been produced.
These color differences were likely amplified following the business at the
Tower of Babel [Genesis 11:1-9] when the human gene pool was divided. Loss
of genetic information in an isolated population is well known and a problem
to breeders of pure-bred dogs, horses and other animals. It seems that one
population group that migrated from the Tower of Babel suffered a greater
loss of the genetic information required to produce the melanin and became
the Caucasians. The bottom line is that Adam was not white or black but a
good middle brown.
Reference: Harrub, B. and Bert Thompson. 2003. The Truth About Human Origins
. Alabama: Apologetics Press, Inc. Pages 444-445.
http://www.creationmoments.com/content/what-color-was-adam
Skin color is due primarily to the presence of a pigment called melanin ,
which is controlled by at least 6 genes. Both light and dark complexioned
people have melanin. However, two forms are produced--pheomelanin , which is
red to yellow in color, and eumelanin , which is dark brown to black.
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