"Did God make Eve out of Adam's rib, just like the Bible says?"
"Yes, and it's a scientific fact that all women have one more rib than men."
"That's pretty cool. What about the Garden of Eden? Is all that true?"
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Oh for... NO IT ISN'T. WE HAVE THE SAME NUMBER OF RIBS. DOOFUS.
And if you want a biological explaination that even coincides with Creation... if Adam was created with 12 ribs, there is no reason that his male offspring would have one less rib. If you lost a rib in an accident, would your sons be born with one less rib?
GAH.
"Did God make Eve out of Adam's rib, just like the Bible says?"
No, nor is it true that Adam was made from dust and breath, nor birds from the ground (or water, depending which Genesis story you're reading), etc..
"Yes, and it's a scientific fact that all women have one more rib than men."
No, you have obviously done no research at all on this. Even the Fundie dimwits at AiG admit that creationists should not use this stupid assertion.
"That's pretty cool."
No, the word you're looking for is "stupid," or perhaps "shit-headed." Propounding an assertion so patently false is not "cool."
"What about the Garden of Eden? Is all that true?"
Of course not. It is an ancient story made up to explain a world that tribal people's of thousands of years ago couldn't understand. Essentially nothing in Genesis is true.
He just attempted to confirm the findings of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck!
Who's Lamarck, you ask? An early proponent of the ideas of evolution! Though his ideas were later supplanted by better theories, he was on the right track.
Sure it's true, and so is Willy Wonka, Fight Club, Ghostbusters, King Kong and Ernest goes to Jail. moron.
If they have one more rib, or not, it doesn´t certify that it was because she was made of another rib. It just means that there are anatomical reasons for that, concerning the breeding of the kids. By the way, if Adam was first created, why didn´t God grant him the gift of reproduction, that is, to bear the kids?, again, if you don´t understand what a metaphore is, please, come back to school.
Even if this were true all it would prove is that early Humans knew that males had one less rib (any twit can count the ribs on someone living or dead) and made a story about it. So, not only is your informaiton wrong, but it's backwards as well.
Heh. Show some biology n00bs a male and female skeleton, tell 'em there _are_ differences in the skeletal structure, watch them count the ribs.
Well, there _are_ differences, but you're about 2 feet too high, n00blers. Women need to do something that men can't, unless they're Arnold Schwarzenegger in a bad movie.
--GF
"Yes, and it's a scientific fact that all women have one more rib than men."
Funny story:
In a college science class for non science majors the teacher was teaching anatomy. The question was how do you tell the diiference between male and female by the skeleton.
In every single class somone brings up that rib story. The teacher borrowed
a male and female skeleton from the medical school so fundies could count ribs but it didn't work. They counted one more pair on the set labeled "female" than on the male, even though the two had the same number.
Mister Spak, they actually counted the ribs on side-by-side skeletons and still got them wrong? Hoo, boy. It is scary how a brainwashed internal "reality" molds perception so strongly as to essentially prevent outside reality from entering at all.
This reminds me of a hypnotism demonstration I saw once. A guy was made to forget the existence of the number 7. He added 3+3 and came up with 6, added 4+4 and came up with 8, then add 3+4, and came up with 8 again -- and then gave a "WTF?" look, knowing that 3+4 couldn't be equal to 4+4, but unable to see what he had done wrong! The brainwashed fundies are exactly the same: hypnotized into avoiding data that conflicts with their version of the "truth."
~David D.G.
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This, along with other batshit pseudo-creationist drivel is said in the same tone of voice that only indicates that the author himself believes them to be true.
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"I betcha they tried to claim the skeletons were fake and made by "evil secular demonic atheists"
Some fundies counted correctly, then concluded that one of the skeletons was mislabeled.
One counted incorrectly several times, then finally counted correctly
when the teacher held her finger, put it on each rib in turn, and counted in unison with her, whereupon she became terribly confused.
Yes, and it's a scientific fact that all women have one more rib than men.
I didn't think there were any people left after the 19th century that still believed this. But since fundies have zero understanding of sarcasm, I'll just say this straight out: normal men and women have the same number of ribs - always have - always will. Mark's "scientific fact" is a fundie myth.
Dear Mark Pitiful, somewhere get a copy of an Anatomy book, look at it, women and men each have 12 pair of ribs. Get a mirror, look in it, you have only 12 pair of brain cells if you believe the trash about women having extra ribs.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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