I was wondering...If man was created from the dust of the earth, do you think ....?

Question

the different races were created by the different soils that make up the earth?

Answer 1

The dust of the earth is the dust of the universe when it formed, and that my friend is how old we all are. It's just that we were formed at different stages in the creation, so in reality you are as old as Father Time himself.

Answer 2

Hard to say.

I've never seen anyone that looks like granite.  Most of us tend to look like limestone, some like redwood, some like black charcoal and I'm guessing the yellow must be sand.

The question I wonder is if we are made from the dust of the earth, then why don't we become mud when it rains?

Answer 3

Not all creation myths have man being created from the earth.  Doesn't the Norse myth have a cow l*****g him out of ice? or something like that.  But every culture is different and within any group there are no mono-cultures, so there is variation in the myth.

Look at the latest movie made of Beowulf, which is at heart a creation myth.  It is the battle between Christians and those who followed the Norse Gods.  Then look at the differences between the movie versions of this film.  Why do you think that they have made so many movies based upon this one book?

This a good anthropological question.

Answer 4

You must be very young. No, all " races " are one species that evolved from common ancestors. This, in spite of populational variance.