(September 18, 2012 at 4:27 pm)Darkstar Wrote:(September 5, 2012 at 7:43 pm)Stimbo Wrote: It could be worse. Some schools of thought hold it that the rib which became Eve wasn't an actual rib from Adam's chest but his baculum, or his penis-bone (as you say, the rib closest to his heart); accounting for why human males don't have one. I'm sure the internet is full of pictures like that.
Unfortunatly, these schools must have little knowledge of genetics. If someone were born with a certain bone in their body and said bone were removed, it would change their physical body, but not their DNA. Any descendants of this person would still be born with that bone; even if the bone were removed at birth every time. After all, if it worked like they suggest, then why do we still have wisdom teeth?
Yet there are still people who think that men have one fewer rib than women. Presumably most of them are men who have never been allowed anywhere near a woman to count her ribs; the rest have no excuse.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
