The short answer of course is that creationism isn't true. The stories in the bible are myths like those of any other ancient people and don't accurately describe the world we inhabit.
theinfamousone:
well you see, some got sunburned and with time this became hereditary...
I know you mean that tongue-in-cheek but it has been seriously suggested by creationists. However, in reality, inheritance of acquired characteristics has never been observed. Evolution works through the differential survival of individuals with different genetic traits.
greendawn:
It's similar to hare, bears, wolves or foxes living in the arctic their fur is white to give then better camouflage in the snow.
Yes it is. They are both good examples of Darwinian evolution. As the environment changes, the allele distribution of the population changes accordingly.
bob1999:
Is the WTS still teaching that there is no such thing as evolution?
No, lately they've borrowed from their fellow creationists and grudgingly accepted that "microevolution" can occur. However, they steadfastly refuse to accept that this process can be cumulative.
Well if thats the case why are australians white? I know the natives were not, I know the whites there were prisoners cast onto that island, and what about south africans?
DeViL DriVeR 76:
Because these things take time. Europeans have only been in Australia for about ten generations, and also the selection pressure has to a large extent been eliminated by technology.
If you take into account the amount of time man has been here on earth according to the bible, it gives no where near enough time for people's features to evolve to better cater to their environment.
Correct. That's the irony, that creationists are forced into accepting a much higher rate of evolution than any evolutionist would accept.
tmo1965:
That's a good question. Consider Noah and his sons. They were 1 family and within them were all the various genes that we humans have today.
That's not possible. There are more than eight alleles for certain genes. It is not possible for all the genetic diversity that exists among humans today to be expressed in only eight people. To get what we find today, you'd need a ludicrously high mutation rate of a sort that has never been observed in nature and would almost certainly lead to the species dying out.
At the time of the Tower of Babel, God scattered the various people according to the language He gave them. Each language group migrated to different parts of the world, which I believe was one large mass at that time, but that's a different discussion.
Of course, that's another "just so" story but 4,000 years ago the world was not "one large mass". The continents were pretty much as we observe them today.
Anyway, you get a different mix of dominant genes and over time, with intermarriage between these smaller groups, the dominate genes prevail until you get the various races we have today.
You sort of fudged that explanation. How exactly do you imagine this happens?
Add to that, adaptations to the various environments and you will get additional differences accordingly.
That's the real cause of the minor physical differences between humans, but evolution simply doesn't work fast enough to produce the effects we see within a biblical time scale. Either evolution happens much much faster than has ever been observed or theorised by any scientist, or the biblical stories are false.
Carmel:
....and why is evolution not a form of creation?
It could be, but it's not a very efficient form. Evolution appears in every measurable way to be Darwinian, not directional. It could be the product of a sadistic and/or apathetic god, but there's no reason to think so.
