Neither. I think its just the way the human brain works. We remember things that come with a story or are out of the ordinary and this recollection occassionally gets mistaken for fact.
I am not Christian and have never been taught Bible stories but I have heard the Adam and Eve story and it stuck in my head as it is rather more memorable than the rather prosaic fact that we have the same number of ribs.
Proof of this is that constructing 'stories' is a proven way of remembering unrelated facts and is a method often used by magicians and gamblers.
The mind is a funny thing........great post though, very amusing experiment.
2007-03-02 10:27:44
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answered by penny century 5
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1) I speculate that trying to make any sort of statistical generalization from a yahoo answers board suffers from a very severe sampling bias and ought to be discarded.
2) I speculate that there is no biblical basis for men to have fewer ribs than women. Yes, a women was made from a rib, but that doesn't mean that they weren't designed to have children with even sets of 12. Any claim on this matter based on the bible can only be inconclusive at best.
2007-03-02 18:32:12
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answered by soulinverse 4
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I don't know about your biology classes, but I don't recall them telling you how many ribs anyone had; the books were not that detailed -- at least not the ones in public schools.
Besides, most adults probably forgot their sophomore biology by now anyway, since they do not use it.
This may be off the topic, but looking at some of your other questions in the R&S section, I notice that you tend to ask questions about the Bible that only someone uneducated in the Bible would be confused by (see link below, for example).
Since you majored in religion in college, you already knew the standard response to these questions, and you already knew what answers that you would get (since you took the same classes that I did, & read similar textbooks, I assume).
So what gives? You say that you don't believe in the Bible anymore, but you purposefully give trick questions about the Bible that you knew would only confuse the uneducated.
You sound like a sophisticated troll, nothing more.
2007-03-02 18:39:42
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answered by Randy G 7
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To my knowledge, there is nothing in the Bible that states that man has fewer ribs than women. I assume that some people think that because one of Adam's ribs was taken to create Eve, that the next generation and all other following generations would also be short a rib. Sounds kind of like evolutionary theory to me and I don't believe in that either.
2007-03-02 18:25:28
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answered by Poohcat1 7
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Definitely the latter. The problem with biology teaching is that most curricula would never think to mention that men and women had the same number of ribs any more than they would mention that men and women both had a larynx. On the other hand, if you asked if men and women both had a "larynx (Adam's apple)" I bet that there would be christians who would categorically deny that women had one.
2007-03-02 18:26:25
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answered by Dave P 7
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I'm one of the people that answered your question and I honestly did think that women had one more rib than men because I thought I remembered that from church. I looked it up on the internet afer I answered your question and I was suprised to see that I was wrong. It is something taught in church - I don't know if it actually came from the Bible though.
You got me on this one.
2007-03-02 18:24:58
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answered by Anonymous
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Some religious teachers claim that the bible is the ONLY book that anyone needs to consult about anything!
Ask why men have a larger larynx than women . . . .
2007-03-02 18:24:11
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answered by nora22000 7
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I"m going with "churches encouraging parshioners to treat the Bible as a science book" and adding that people do not seek the truth for themselves so it serves them right being ignorant.
2007-03-02 18:23:21
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answered by glitterkittyy 7
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I've never had a preacher tell me (NOR IS IT IN THE BIBLE) that women have an extra rib. Did you ever think that the majority of the people who responded just may NOT be educated in the BIBLE????
I honestly grow WEARY of your rhetoric!
2007-03-02 22:34:45
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answered by lookn2cjc 6
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Yes. One set for each Apostle.
They never let me count their ribs in Biology.
2007-03-02 18:28:20
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answered by Tommy 6
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