Lesson Theme: Adam’s Rib
Discover Magazine reported that the subject of Adam’s Rib arose repeatedly in an introductory course on evolution at an American university in 1995. According to the article:
Professor of Physiology, Robert Root-Bernstein, recalled the first time he thought his course seven years ago. He had asked if anyone in the class could tell him how a human female skeleton differed from a male.
‘Five minutes into the lab period,” the professor said, a young woman announced that she could answer the question without even examining the skeleton.’
Her answer? “males have one fewer pair of ribs than females.”
He found that she, and others since, believed that because the Bible records that God took a rib from the first man to form the first woman, than all men must be born with fewer ribs than women.
How would you respond to this claim?
“And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;” — Genesis 2:21
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