Two-tone twins
Photo by Gary Roberts, <www.worldwidefeatures.com>.
Believe it or not, these two beautiful little girls are twins. Born in April 2005
in Nottingham, UK, blue-eyed Remee (on the left in photo at left) would be called ‘white’,
while many would label her brown-eyed sister, Kian, as ‘black’.1
The twins soon became the focus of much media attention. News reports described
how both of their parents (photo below), Kylie Hodgson and Remi Horder, ‘have
white mothers and black fathers.’2
These two little girls help answer one of the questions that has troubled many people
about the Bible. If there was just one man and one woman at the beginning then where
did all the ‘races’ come from, with their ‘different skin colours’?
Remee and Kian prove that it is simply a matter of genetics—with the right
genes, all the different complexions can appear in one generation.3
Photo by Gary Roberts, <www.worldwidefeatures.com>.
So if Adam and Eve had a middle-brown complexion due to a mixture of ‘light’
and ‘dark’ genetic information, similar to Remee and Kian’s parents,
all shades from the darkest through to the lightest could be accounted for in their
children and future generations.
Kian and Remee also illustrate the biblical truth that we are all related—we
all belong to the same family through Adam and Eve, and through Noah and his family
too, just as the Bible says.
References and notes
- Laing, L., Twins in a million, The Sunday Mail (Brisbane),
12 March 2006, p. 3. Return to text.
- ABC News, One twin’s white, the other’s
black—twins’ parents both have white mothers, black fathers, abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1813509, 19 September 2006. Return to text.
- The pigment responsible for skin ‘colour’ is melanin.
If we have a lot of this pigment we are very dark (‘black’). If we don’t
have much of this pigment our complexion will be fair (‘white’). See
The Creation Answers Book, chapter 18: ‘How
did the different “races” arise?’, Creation Ministries International,
Brisbane, Australia, 2006. Return to text.
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