"I`ve often wondered,if God took a single rib out of Adam and made Eve,why don`t we have more ribs on one side than the other?"
Actually the female skeleton has one more rib than the male in all that I've seen in various museums.
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Ouch.
Massive, massive fail.
I remember being told in my Catholic primary school (I'm from the UK) that women had an extra rib. I was dumb enuff to believe it for years. This quote brings back some memories!
Eventually I left Catholic secondary... an athiest.
(a) Removing a rib wouldn't cause your kids to be born missing a rib.
(b) Ribs are one of the few body parts that can actually regrow.
(c) Nothing in the Bible says Adam's descendants were missing ribs.
The whole thing was probably invented by some backwoods preacher.
@ Homer J that's exactly what I was thinking.
Anyway, how can anyone be so blind for religion? Count the ribs and see reality.
Anonymous is just ribbing us.
;^D
Seriously, I can't tell if this is a poe or not. But there ARE fundies who believe this implicitly and have strong perceptional filters that force its confirmation. A biology teacher once reported that he had to make a girl in his class touch each rib on the class skeleton models as she counted them, and only then did she manage to count them correctly -- and got a very puzzled look on her face when they came out with the same number on both male and female skeletons.
An interesting piece from talkorigins that might give the fundies nightmares:
The Genesis account may be an explanatory myth for the absence of a different bone. Most male mammals have a baculum, a bone for stiffening the penis. Humans are one of the rare exceptions, relying on hydraulics instead. Genesis 2:21-23 could refer to its removal from Adam. A baculum, unlike a rib, is associated with reproduction. The closing of flesh mentioned in Genesis 2:21 could refer to the raphe, a seam on the penis and scrotum. Biblical Hebrew has no word for penis, so another term would have to be used. The Hebrew word for "rib" has other meanings such as the supporting columns in trees, or planks in doors; it could have referred to a structural support generally (Gilbert and Zevit 2001).
Creationist museums, maybe.
So, according to your rib theory, does that mean we are all descendants of one pair of cross sexed clones? (same cell,Y chromosome exchanged for the X, and then grown to maturation)
A biology teacher once reported that he had to make a girl in his class touch each rib on the class skeleton models as she counted them, and only then did she manage to count them correctly
Later she realized her right hand had caused her to sin so she cut it off and cast it away from her.
David D.G.
that is disturbing and very, very distressing. how is it that a colony group founded on religous freedom (eventualy) became so ultra religous and takes their religion ultra seriously (the US), yet a prison colony from an england that was still into establishmentarianism became very casual about peoples' choices of religion and very few take their religion as serious as most of those US fundies (i am refering to australia)
Actually the female skeleton has one more rib than the male in all that I've seen in various museums.
If Anonymous can find a woman under 300 pounds who'll go out with him, maybe he can count her ribs for himself ...
Back when I went to church, the youth pastor's wife used to tell us this all the time. She also said that if someone saw you doing something bad then did it and got killed, that you'd go to hell too. And they also believed that they were actually trying to clone Jesus a few years ago.
Yeah. Not poe.
I used to believe this. It was taught to me by people I trusted.
However, the "various museums" part is clearly bollocks.
Chi: "Well, a small percentage of the population does have a mutation that causes a lost rib...."
Just to be clear - it is a *pair* of ribs :-)
Actually, the whole rib debate is interesting. It reminds me of the old rumors about rib-removal surgery surrounding Prince and Marilyn Manson. If only God had removed a couple more of Adam's ribs, he wouldn't have needed to create Eve.
Depressingly common myth in the U.S., actually. I even remember seeing a prime-time TV show (and one of the "crime investigation" sorts, at that) where one of the people investigating a crime scene counted the ribs on a skeleton to determine sex. I had to change the channel -- if not only the writers but the entire staff were that ignorant, it didn't bode well for the quality of the show.
Okay... find one. A non-Creationist museum, of course.
Or, conversely, ask the first health professional (doctor, nurse) you come across to show you his or her anatomy textbook or, better yet, a real skeleton.
Should I really say this ?? Should I say that I've seen female skeletons with more ribs than male ones in museums ?? Because, you know ... I ... haven't.
... but wait a minute, I know the female skeleton does have one more rib than the male skeleton so I know that if I were to go to a museum and look at the skeletons I would be proven correct. So ... what's the difference if I just claim I already have been to these museums ?? Who's gonna know ???
Wow, I'm so smart. I'm totally gonna win this argument.
This is actually a common myth... that men have one less rib than women. Damn bible.
DZYMZLZY: Or just be walking, talking ribs?
So wait a moment...
These are Smarties:
O O
One Smartie is taken from the original group of eight to make a second column of Smarties of eight:
O O
O O
And somehow that turns into this?
O O
O O
I broke my leg as a child. I was shocked to find that my daughter was born WITHOUT A BROKEN LEG!!!!
I swear, these people have some kind of force field that protects them from knowledge.
So Medical School didn't work out for ya...?!
There's an extremely good reason why "Gray's Anatomy" is still the standard - and definitive - reference book for medical students. Even in the mid-19th Century, they got it right .
That tome. The BuyBull. Someone's wrong.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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