2007-11-23 14:37:34 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I've always wondered why us women folk have an extra rib...
2007-11-23 14:39:32 · answer #1 · answered by Blessed 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Silly them if they do. Where's the proof? The bible says God took "a rib" from Adam- since humans have pairs of ribs, why then don't men these days have just one rib missing, from one side only?
Also, considering genetics, why would this removal of a rib have any impact on Adam's children? A man missing an arm due to surgery doesn't have one armed children. It's not a genetic disorder - it was simply removed.
Any anatomical anomoly in humans, if you believe the bible, would have much more to do with the vast numbers of inbred children resulting from closely related women & men producing offspring!
2007-11-23 14:53:18 · answer #2 · answered by MJF 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God can do anything He wants, but the book was written by men, and so what they heard from God they had to interpret through the limited knowledge that they had. In a way, even the symbology of the rib is an interesting one. What does it matter anyways who believes what? How does this affect your life? The complexity of life's beginnings cannot even be put into scientific words satisfactorily. Science takes all the romance out of it. What sounds better? "Sexual intercourse" or "making love"?
2007-11-23 14:46:46 · answer #3 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Females have X chromosomes only to give during sexual reproduction. Males have both X and Y chromosomes to give during sexual reproduction. In this scientific respect, there is more to the male than there is to the female. Is there a reason for the fact that it is always the father who determines a childs gender? Males have no uteruses and females and spirit beings have no penises so the first female (EVE) had to be created in some non-sexual way, as did the first man (ADAM)-from the dust of Eden. Now, the bible says that "for with God, all things are possible" in the book of Mark, chapter 10, verse 27.
2007-11-23 16:13:41 · answer #4 · answered by Jess4rsake 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I am sure it could be possible if you take DNA into consideration, I am not scientifically speaking, I am just speculating because of recent cloning and stem cell and dna research, but if I were to say yes I will have a bunch of fundies saying that I now should be sub servient to the males of our species and I just might have to punch them in the rib for saying that, so I will just say its possible but the story is ridiculous when put that way in the bible
2007-11-23 14:58:18 · answer #5 · answered by CelticFairy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
David G is right the word "rib" is translated in the strong's concordance as the word "curve" . In all probably as in the Helix curve so it more than likly means that there was some dna removed.
2007-11-23 18:46:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The biblical account of Eve being made from the rib of Adam is allegorical--not in a literal sense.
2007-11-23 14:48:27 · answer #7 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Salam
There is always the truth and then there is your imagination.
The Rib to protect the heart and he is the provider. What is under the rib sister? Think about it she makes him breath easy his lungs under there, and she protects his heart the way it always should have been, where have you been under a rock?
2007-11-23 14:47:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Man’s not missing any of his ribs. The manuscripts say “curve”, not “rib”. IMHO it was the helix curve. In other words, God created Eve from Adam’s feminine DNA.
2007-11-23 14:47:21 · answer #9 · answered by David G 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, Bible says so. Females do have an extra rib.
2007-11-23 14:44:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋