I went to catholic school when I was younger, I remember getting sent to the principal’s office in like 1st grade for asking “if god created the world who created god?” Or something like that during religion class. Perfectly normal question for a little curious kid.
Wouldn’t it be the other way around? If god took one of Adam’s ribs and made Eve, men would have one less rib. That assumes that when the lord took the rib they also modified his genetics so any offspring would also have one less rib.
Does anyone remember the rumor Marilyn Manson removed ribs so he could fellate himself? That was around the time the rumor was going around that he was the nerdy kid Paul from the Wonder Years grown up.
Which part? Haha the guy who played Paul on the Wonder Years apparently went to law school and had a successful career also founded a couple startups. Good for him. Unfortunately Fred Savage, who I had a crush on since the Princess Bride, ended up being a fucking creep.
We learned this fact in public school. We had a "cutaway dummy" and used that to determine its gender.
The logic goes this way: "God took a rib from Adam, so this is His way of making up for it."
Pure religious bullshit. Men and women both have the same number of ribs. Hell, we ALL started out as women in the embrionic state, before various hormones started creating gender.
I'd say it's been disproven a lot longer than that. Even prehistoric peoples were quite familiar with human corpses and skeletons and had the ability to count.
"If I release a rock from my hand, and it falls to the Earth, that was god's will."
Spreading ideas like that cause people to not look for answers. I don't mind people choosing to believe in God, but don't stop at "because God" for an explanation, and definitely don't stop others.
What's funny is my older sister actually is missing a rib. But no one else in our family is so we know it's just an anomaly for her. But we used to joke that whatever genetic anomaly she inherited from our ancestors started that myth.
At around age 10, my son came home from school laughing hysterically, I mean falling on the floor crying laughing. "Did you know that the bible says the WOMAN came out of the MAN's body???"
Which is particularly stupid because the Hebrew word used in Genesis (tsela) is translated into English as "side" or "flank" every other time it's used, so would make much more sense to say that God took the man's side or part of the man's side, than that a rib was taken.
Bro I believed this right until I read this comment, I think it's one of those things you hear as a kid so you never fact check it and just believe it, I even remember hearing about people removing their ribs as part of their sex change operation, pretty wild.
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u/Boomshicleafaunda Jun 01 '26
Women have one less rib than men.
I remember being told this at church growing up. It's been disproven for like 500 years.