As I travel to different places of the world, I
noticed not only the difference in skin colors, but also, the shape of
nose, the shape of the eyes, the height, and the hair of people in four
continents of the earth that I have reached.
I am a man of many questions in my mind because I am a keen observer of almost everything that I have been privileged to see. I believe my curiosity is one of the factors that led me to a deeper search of truth that I satisfactorily found in the Bible.
If the entire human race came from one family, why
is it possible that there are races that stand taller than others
having eyes, noses, and hair very much different from another?
The answer to these questions is very well elucidated both in the Bible and in Science. Biblically, the ordinary human can produce ‘giants’.
(Genesis 6:2-4) That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And
the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he
also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
The cross-breeding of the sons of God with the daughters of men produced these giants!
Scientifically, giants or men of extra-ordinary
height and size can be caused by what is called pituitary growth
hormone excess, also known as “pituitary gigantism”.
The human body is an adaptable organism. It can adapt even to extremes in the environment. This ability to adapt itself to a given environment helps in the ‘shaping’ of his physical body. It
can be noted that there are places where natives are noticeably with
long protruding noses, while the opposite is very much apparent in
other places of the globe.
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Quick Facts:
Climate clearly has put its imprint on the tint of our skin, the size of our noses, and other physical traits…
…Amid such discussions, however, a consensus exists that climate has influenced the evolution of the human physique.
Skin color, for example,
is determined largely by the amount of melanin, a dark pigment, in the
outer layer of the skin. (Carotene imparts a yellow tint.) In sunny
climates close to the Equator, natural selection has favored dark,
melanin-rich skin, which protects its owner by absorbing harmful
ultraviolet rays before they penetrate to lower layers. But
some ultraviolet light must penetrate the skin so that the body can
produce Vitamin D. Thus, at higher latitudes, where sunlight is less
intense, pale skin with little melanin is the norm.
Among dark-skinned
people, moreover, there are great variations in skin color. The
drawback of dark skin is that, like dark cloth, it absorbs more heat
from the sun than does lighter skin. In prehistory, anthropologists
explain, those who roamed the savannah “traded off” some protection
from ultraviolet rays for the reduced heat retention of lighter skin. For forest-dwellers, living in less extreme heat, a darker complexion was an evolutionary advantage.
Melanin also determines
eye color. The human eye appears blue when there is no melanin in the
outer iris, and turns darker as melanin increases. In the iris, as in
the skin, melanin absorbs light, protecting the eye from glare. Thus,
dark eyes are generally favored by nature. In Europe, however, almost
50 percent of the population has blue, green, or gray irises, Such
people may see further in dim light, but scientists still do not fathom
the evolutionary logic of blue eyes – or blond hair, for that matter. The
eyes of the Chinese, Japanese, Eskimos, and other people of Mongoloid
descent – one third of the world’s population – are protected by
epicanthic folds. These folds, composed of fatty tissue, probably
evolved among their forebears inhabiting the Arctic in order to
insulate the eye against freezing, and to provide an additional shield
against glare from snow and ice. Even the human nose adapts to climate.
Inside the nose, a
series of wet, mucus-lined air chambers “conditions” inhaled air before
it reaches the throat and the delicate air sacs of the lungs, warming
it to about 95 degrees Fahrenheit and raising its relative humidity to
95 percent. Humans in cold climates – or in hot, dry ones – thus have
the greatest need to condition the air they breathe. Natural selection
in such climes generally favors larger noses with more mucus lining:
flattened, to protect against frostbite, in frigid environments; long
and narrow in arid regions. In a like manner, the size
and shape of the human form help the body regulate internal
temperature. Over thousands of years, cooler climates tend to produce
larger people. The reason: Their extra mass helps them retain heat.
Although large people also have more skin surface from which heat can
escape, the tradeoff still works to their advantage. As the body grows
larger, mass becomes greater relative to skin area. The
Alakaluf Indians on the frigid southern tip of South America, for
example, are 25 percent taller than the Ituri Pygmies of Central
Africa. Yet, the Alakalufs are more than two times heavier – and thus
store much more body heat. Variations in body shape
complicate the picture. A tall, skinny man has more surface area – and
heat loss – than does a shorter, huskier man of the same weight. Thus,
cold territories closest to the North and South Poles tend to be
populated by stocky folk. In southern Africa, Pygmies,
the world’s shortest people, dwell very near the Nilotic tribes (e.g.,
the Dinka), the tallest. But the Nilotic tribes live in the dry, open
savannahs, the Pygmies, in the shaded forests. The Nilotics’
environment puts a premium on having more skin surface to release heat,
thus their extremely tall, slender build. And,
occasionally, there appear uniquely adapted humans, A notable example:
the Khoikhoi women of the open African savannah, who have thin torsos
suited to the hot climate, but also protruding buttocks (steatopygia)
containing storehouses of fat to draw upon in times of famine. Just
as it is difficult to prove a correlation between past climatic change,
and, say, the demise of an ancient civilization, so today’s
anthropologists are not certain that all their inferences about climate
and human evolution are well founded. Very few of the world’s peoples
in all their variety now inhabit the same territories where, long ago,
their ancestors presumably developed certain characteristics in
response to climate. Often, notes Grover Krantz,
anthropologists resort to “pulling people out of areas where their…
traits don’t fit the environment and putting them back where they do
fit”. http://eng.1september.ru/2003/29/1.htm
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The information that was written in the Bible that the human race came from only one family is very much scientifically true. The
scattering abroad of the family of Noah in different places of the
habitable earth eventually and gradually produced different physical
features among them depending on the kind of environment they settled
to live.
(Acts 17:26) And hath
made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of
the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the
bounds of their habitation…
Many theories including the infamous Darwinian
Theory of Evolution was taught and believed even by reputed scientists;
but a fact remains — that we were created by a great God, from the
first man and woman; we came from one family (not from apes); with only
one language and tongue, which was later confounded by God, for His
will to populate the earth with humans be fulfilled.
(Genesis 3:20) And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
God is not the author of confusion, but is a God of order and truth.
(1 Corinthians 14:40) Let all things be done decently and in order.
To believe in the theory of evolution is to
believe in accidents, for the theory of evolution can only be explained
by accidents that allegedly happened in nature, and perhaps in the
brains and minds of evolutionists!
To God be the glory!
Sincerely in Christ,
EFS
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