--SO MANY SKIN TONES FROM ADAM AND EVE?
--By: Brian Thomas, M.S. *
Evidence for Creation / TWIN SISTERS!

After viewing the mixture of widely different skin tones at a recent church gathering, a long-time Acts & Facts reader asked how so much variety came from only three pairs of human beings—Shem, Ham, and Japheth and their wives. How could all these skin tones come from just these people? Winding the clock back even further, Bible history implies that all skin tones came not from three human pairs but from one: Adam and Eve. Do the genetics of skin color match this Bible-based idea?

Like many animals, human bodies produce melanin—a chemical of color. Melanin darkens moth wings, bird feathers, human skin, and animal fur.1 For example, black bears range across at least 40 U.S. states. Most black bears have black fur, dense with melanin, but some have brown. I watched a huge black bear walk right through my campsite this past summer, but its fur was reddish blonde. Fortunately, it loped off after it heard me trying to escape up the nearest tree. Blonde and cinnamon-red black bears can interbreed with dark black bears, showing that these varieties belong to the same basic kind. Different human “races” similarly reduce to varieties in the same basic human kind.---
---- [Twins Maria (left) and Lucy Aylmer (right) pose together. The twins' mother is half-Jamaican, and their father is white.]
"With God all things are possible." CHECK IT OUT! =(ICR= Institute for Creation Research)
<http://www.icr.org/article/9590>
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