2007-04-15 09:48:34 · 20 answers · asked by powder_sk 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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.
2007-04-15 19:03:17 · answer #1 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam who?
Adam Billy Bob Jones?
2007-04-15 16:50:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Maybe not but I bet Eve did have a bellybutton. Especially when they started having children.
Good Question...............
2007-04-15 16:54:03 · answer #3 · answered by ruthie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean as in Adam and Eve and the "Garden of Eden?" No, I am thinking he probably didn't, because Adam and Eve weren't "born" they were created.
2007-04-15 17:08:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No and neither did Eve because they were not born of woman. They were created. Good question. I've thought of this before.
2007-04-15 19:14:50 · answer #5 · answered by neofreshmao 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uhh...don't know..never met him personally.
Peace, Love, and Blessings,
Greenwood
2007-04-15 16:51:25 · answer #6 · answered by Greenwood 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but will check it out the next time i see him lol
2007-04-15 17:05:14 · answer #7 · answered by casha1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-04-15 16:51:39 · answer #8 · answered by Freaked out 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no i guess not. if he wasnt born from a woman with an umbilical cord.... i guess not. ive never thought of that before.
2007-04-15 16:51:44 · answer #9 · answered by Rachel_Crestaid_Sugarwonder_ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes i believe Adam did have a belly button ...... he'd be wierd not to
2007-04-15 16:51:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋