Think about it.
2007-02-01 15:15:57 · 12 answers · asked by Rowdy Yayhoot 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
450 times already? Survey Says!
2007-02-01 15:20:39 · update #1
That was a little before my time.
2007-02-01 15:21:29 · answer #1 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did Adam and Eve have bellybuttons?
For those who believe the Bible to be historically accurate, this is not a trivial question. If Adam and Eve did not have navels, then they were not perfect human beings. On the other hand, if they had navels, then the navels would imply a birth they never experienced.
Bruce Felton and Mark Fowler are the authors of The Best, Worst, and Most Unusual (Galahad Books, 1994). In this entertaining reference work, they devote several paragraphs (pp. 146-147) to what they call "the wont theological dispute." They take this to be the acrimonious debate, which has been going on ever since the book of Genesis was written, over whether the first human pair had what Sir Thomas Browne, in 1646, called "that tortuosity or complicated nodosity we usually call the Navell."
Browns opinion was that Adam and Eve, because they had no parents, must have had perfectly smooth abdomens. In 1752, according to Felton and Fowler, the definitive treatise on the topic was published in Germany. It was tided Untersuchung der Frage: Ob unsere ersten Uraltern, Adam und Eve, einen Nabel gehabt (Examination on the Question: Whether Our First Ancestors, Adam and Eve, Possessed a Navel). After discussing all sides of this difficult question, the author, Dr. Christian Tobias Ephraim Reinhard, finally concluded that the famous pair were navelless.
2007-02-02 02:12:18 · answer #2 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they were never in the womb, so they never had umbilical cords, so they wouldn't have belly buttons. The question is if Adam and Eve were on a nude beach how could you tell them apart from the other people.
2007-02-01 23:23:37 · answer #3 · answered by Tamra P 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm an atheist and all, but did you notice when you asked this question that it has been asked 450 times previous?
2007-02-01 23:18:11 · answer #4 · answered by Jim Darwin 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you've forgot Lilith.
I wonder, did she had a navel?
don't forget, she was made by God before Eve
2007-02-02 08:34:08 · answer #5 · answered by menia_1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were created and never had an umbilical cord attached to them.
We are just one of billions who enjoyed the privilege getting here threw Pro-Creation and we have a navel to prove it! :)
2007-02-01 23:26:57 · answer #6 · answered by Here I Am 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, so they wouldnt be freaked out by the site of their children's navels.
2007-02-01 23:18:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they were surgically implanted years later by space aliens. That was before time began though.
2007-02-01 23:24:08 · answer #8 · answered by Lukusmcain// 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say No. I believe they were made as adults.
2007-02-01 23:23:57 · answer #9 · answered by HAND 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no because they werent technically born. they were created by god, so they wouldnt have to have an umbilical cord
2007-02-01 23:20:22 · answer #10 · answered by ♥katie♥ 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋