It's hard to imagine that all ethnicities, races and peoples could come out of two people, whether they were Adam and Eve or Noah and his wife. Creationist theories have tried for a long time to uncover the truth behind the origin of peoples. Did we really come from a small handful? Or did God use other means to populate the earth?
There are two general theories that are most popular nowadays. The first is the possibility that Adam and Eve were not the only people God created from the earth. It might be possible that He created other humans from scratch. If He did it once with so much ease, what's to stop Him from doing it again? This could have happened anytime before or even after the flood when the world was back to being inhabited by only a chosen few.
The other theory is that it's possible that all peoples came from one race. With the average life spans being several hundreds of years, people during pre-Abrahamic times had all the time to produce plenty of offsprings. The varying features of ethnicities are also something that could possibly have happened through natural or even supernatural changes.
Did all races come from just a handful of people? There's really just no way to know for sure—at least not in this lifetime. But even in the uncertainty of that premise, we can still be sure of these three things.
1. God Made All Things Happen
Colossians 1:16 says, "For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him."
God is, at the end of the day, the origin of all life and all things on this earth and beyond it. There is nothing that did not originate from Him. While the means of propagation might be different, we can be sure that it happened by God's hand.
2. By Whatever Means, God Will Have His Way
Whether it's by mutation, supernatural creation or natural procreation, God has His way with the forces and laws that govern the universe. It doesn't matter how God does it. What matters is that He has done it for His own purpose. All things lead back to two things: God's utmost honour and our most well-intentioned welfare.
3. God Is Still Alive
The uncertainty of the origin of life does not establish the uncertainty of the existence of God. There is more than enough evidence to prove that God exists regardless of what sceptics may think. One thing we know for sure is that something cannot come out of nothing, and it was God who made something happen so that everything would be created.
