[mlb33]

That's assanine. No matter which way you look at it people are going to use science as an argument against the Bible. So that "great" book telling you to not mix science and the Bible is basically telling you to cop out. You cannot do that. If anything, a smart person could use science to help prove the existence of a God and such. Maybe in the Middle Ages you could have said, "Oh, well, we aren't supposed to mix science and religion." But you can't now-a-days.

As for the best-selling book argument. Of course it is. The majority of the world is Christian, or claims to be. However, Islam is rising quickly. I'd say in maybe the next 10 years we will see Islam rise to the same level as Christianity.

Godfather.......... my point went right over your head ...... I wasn't saying you couldn't use science just that we are not GOD ...man has limited knowledge... God can do anything ....... defy any laws of nature if he so chooses (just one of many examples Joshua 10:12)......... and next time why don't you actually try reading the book I mentioned before slaming it. If you did you would have found out that the author even says he doesn't have all the answers and even gives mulitiple possibilities to some questions. What he does say is that he has guidelines to answering the questions in his book. His guidelines are:

1)When the Bible is clear, he tells you exactly what the Bible says
2)When the Bible gives only a part of an answer, he says "apparently" or "perhaps" suggesting the answers are objective
3)When the Bible is silent, that he(the author) doesnt make the rules so he can't really give a definate answer
4)He answers all questions in a good concious before God
5)Most questions have been answered by other bible scholors and he has studied their answers and sometimes refers to their answers
6)Sometimes he even uses the "the preisthood of believers" law, meaning everyone has access to God and that everyone can't have gotten something wrong
7)and last but not least that these answers are his opinion (from years of studing and teaching) and that he is solely responsible for them ....... if they help you GREAT but do not believe what he says because he said it ....... believe it because you read and studied the Bible and it is your own belief.

And here is another question VW ... Could a perfect GOD write an imperfect book? But then again, from your answers I get the feeling you don't believe in God much less his book. Sad.

Now as to my therory of how other cultures and races began .... it is sort of a mix of quite of few of your answers .....but first I want to state that I am not an expert on the Bible and this is just my OPINION.

First the therory of making others besides Adam and Eve very well could be possiable but you forget God flooded the earth and started over ....... so Yes, Noah and his family became the new Adam and Eve ..... and yes Ham (Noah's son) was cursed and alot of evil came out of his line but luck of the draw (being born of Ham's line) doesn't condeme someone .. God gives each of us free will.... to choose and make our own decisions ...... However, Nimrod did come Ham's line and if I am not mistaken Nimrod was the one who built the TOWER OF BABEL .... man's tower of trouble .....(Gen 11:3-4) a tower or ziggurants that was to reach the heaven so Nimrod could basicly not be forgotten and sort of place him up there with God himself .... almost as if saying man could reach God though thier own will and not God's will.... then verse 5 says God came down to view this tower (and not because it was getting to close but just because humandkind had united to oppose him) before this time eveyone spoke the same language and Gen. 11:9 goes one to say that God confused the language of the whole world and thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of the earth. And as for their actual physical traits .... that would have to be partly because of the genetics that came from each group and partly enviromental ...... the body is a wonderious thing ..... it adapts to many things.

Like I said this is just my therory.