2007-10-15 15:09:33 · 22 answers · asked by J C 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I saw this question in a cartoon in the funny paper a while back. I had never heard it before. I thought it was cute too. I don't think that they did.
2007-10-15 15:50:51 · update #1
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.
2007-10-15 15:16:11 · answer #1 · answered by Freedom 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This question was asked a few days ago. There are artists conceptions of them that show belly buttons. However, since none of us were there, and the story of Adam and Eve is based on an ancient Sumerian creation story, the world may never know.
2007-10-15 15:14:09 · answer #2 · answered by Purdey EP 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. Adam and Eve were grown by who ever or what ever God is in a vat of life sustaining fluid until they were able to start breathing as newborns on their own. All their children however did have bellybuttons since they were all born from Eve through normal vaginal delivery.
2007-10-15 15:25:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's an oldie but a goodie. Here's more. Man (Adam) is said to be made in the image and likeness of God. Therefore, if Adam has a bellybutton, so does God. What for?
2007-10-15 15:15:11 · answer #4 · answered by ToolManJobber 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's hard for a non-existent thing to have real qualities.
All of the Renaissance images show them having belly buttons. But I'm not sure how much you want to believe that -- many drawings show that Adam wore fig leaf underwear and Eve preferred bras made of snake tails.
2007-10-15 15:15:28 · answer #5 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
That's a cute question. I suppose they wouldn't have because of the fact that they didn't come from the womb of a woman connected by an umbilical cord.
2007-10-15 15:12:39 · answer #6 · answered by GoodJuJu2U 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Of course not! they were as anotomically correct as any Barbie or G.I. joe doll. Though I think Eve may have had a kewl pink car, and Adam may have had kung-fu grip!
2007-10-15 15:14:58 · answer #7 · answered by doug s 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Drink
2007-10-15 15:13:38 · answer #8 · answered by What? Me Worry? 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
They hired a plastic surgeon to put them on but instead he just ended up circumcising Adam
2007-10-15 16:22:37 · answer #9 · answered by miname 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You mean Adam and Steve??
I heard Eve was Adams half cousin second removed with a sex change
2007-10-15 15:12:24 · answer #10 · answered by SteelRain 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋