BRAGADAYJAH 26

5 So the word says, God confounded their language so they could not understand one another. Accordingly the building stopped, and God drove them out, scattered them, to all parts of the earth; but not before He put His special touch on them. Now, I have often heard it asked, or said, “if it is true that God in the beginning made one man, Adam, and one woman Eve, whence came different colors on the earth among men” Well that is a good question, and it is submitted the answer may be found right there at Babel. Given that Adam was made from red clay, the dust of the earth, it follows that as far as color goes, he was the color of clay, red. It is in this wise, it is averred, that when God confounded and drove out the dwellers at Babel, he also separated them by color. Some he drove out into the snow covered areas of the earth and at the same time struck them with what was seen then as a kind of skin sickness, later associated with leprosy. After centuries of living in cold snowy conditions, the offspring of the original forebears became genetically paler and paler until it became an indelible condition, we today call whiteness. It may be noted, in this regard, that when white persons become even now exposed to the sun, they have a tendency to revert even beyond the original pigmentation. On the opposite end of the scale, there were those who were driven to the area of the world we now call Africa and conversely, their pigmentation changed to the color we today call black owing to the process of genetic adaptation which too, after centuries, became an immutable genetic trait. Obviously, while people went North and South, East and West, some men were allowed to remain in the area in between where they maintained more or less, but subject to climatic and other factors, the original color as to the color made. More