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Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? – Martin Gardner
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October 28th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Adam and Eve were clones.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
A review over Gardner’s book – “The “conundrum” goes like this: if Adam and Eve did not have navels, then they were not perfect human beings, according to Gardner. If, on the other hand, they did sport belly buttons, then the navels would imply a natural birth that they never experienced, having been special creations by God according to Holy Writ.”
“But this rather trivial issue becomes a “conundrum” only if one allows it to become one. Gardner provides no elaboration whatsoever on his statement that Adam and Eve would have been “imperfect” human beings had they been created without navels. Perhaps he is thinking that Christians are required to believe that Adam and Eve were created as physically perfect specimens of humanity. But such is not a litmus test for orthodoxy, since nowhere in Scripture does it say that they were born with (what we could call) “perfect” bodies.”