Re: [asa] getting my anecdotes straightened out

Try the site

https://www.msu.edu/~rootbern/evolution/darwinsrib.html

It is entitled

Darwin's Rib

Copyright DISCOVER, a Division of Disney Magazine Publishing, Inc. Sep 1995

jb

On 2/20/09, John Burgeson (ASA member) <hossradbourne@gmail.com> wrote:
> I did a few google searches and came up empty. It looks like an
> anti-Christian "story."
>
> One note I did find which was interesting. The biblical account may be
> an explanatory myth for the absence of a different bone than the rib.
> Most male mammals have a baculum, a bone for stiffening the penis.
> Humans are a rare exception, relying on hydraulics instead. A
> baculum, unlike a rib, is associated with reproduction. The closing of
> flesh mentioned in Genesis 2:21 could refer to the raphe, a seam on
> the penis and scrotum.
>
> jb
>
> On 2/20/09, Merv Bitikofer <mrb22667@kansas.net> wrote:
>> Can anybody remember the source of this, or discern if it is no more
>> than urban legend?
>>
>> From the point of view of an anthropology professor, the story
>> goes.... a young lady raised her hand in class and quite calmly and
>> seriously informed him that it was impossible that men and women have
>> the same number of ribs because the Bible teaches otherwise. The
>> incredulous professor then challenges her to go examine the skeletons in
>> the lab to see for herself.
>>
>> This was probably used in the context of belittling creationists (I
>> think.). But I can't remember where I read it. I want to say in one of
>> Stephen Jay Gould's books, but I'm not sure. (And Gould is generally
>> more respectful towards believers though he could be feisty in his own
>> right on behalf of truth and science.)
>>
>> Oh ---and please note; this isn't to open commentary on the anecdote
>> itself. Obviously the claimed facts are all wrong and the Bible teaches
>> no such thing about our rib counts today. And of course most reflective
>> creationists would never make such a claim. The point of the whole
>> thing is/was to illustrate a simple-minded interaction between belief
>> and the self-prided hard core "scientist". I want to find the source
>> to see if the alleged event is convincingly documented to have happened.
>>
>> --Merv
>>
>>
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