Originally published at: Did God use Adam's penis bone to make Eve? Scholars discuss. | Boing Boing
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I’m fairly sure we’ve already discussed this here in one thread or another.
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so we’re actually having scholars discuss how a fictional deity made fictional people? i hope they discuss how Ungoliant produced Shelob and her other young without (apparently) any mate.
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The real, meaningful question of our time.
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It’s strictly a question of linguistics. Like how people will debate a typo in the original draft of The Hobbit and wonder if it actually was meant to be Dildo Daggins.
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Also note that shepherds (goat or sheep, take your pick) would certainly have had an opportunity to examine a sheep skeleton and consider the matter for a “'ey! I don’t gots one of those!” prior to holing up in a cave to scribble down the local mythology in Aramaic on some sheep skin.
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Yeah, but people always want to keep tugging on it.
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shrug
some people find biblical penis bones interesting, other immaculate spider conception.
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At least most people understand LOTR to be fictional, but what do I know?
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Would have gone great with the original name of Celeborn, co-ruler of Lothlórien with Galadriel, which was Teleporno. Seriously!
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As for the biblical discussion, I strongly recommend that people read The Science of Discworld books, specifically the bits about Pan Narrans.
The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens (‘wise man’). In any case it’s an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans , the storytelling chimpanzee.
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You say that like its a bad thing.
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Not a typo:
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SOME people believe that a disc-shaped planet riding on the back of a giant turtle doesn’t exist in the multiverse, too…
Obligatory!
To be fair, isn’t that true of everyone who discusses any sort of folklore or fiction? 
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ahh, science, you got ALL the bases covered, don’t you. haha
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The Turtle moves!
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I would think they should be asking “Why would Adam have a penis before the creation of Eve?”
(I suppose some will say, so he can pee standing up. But what about the rest of the reproductive system? Did he magically get a scrotum, testicles, vas deferens and a prostate when god created Eve from his rib/penis bone? 
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Apparently the Sumerian word for ‘rib’ also means ‘to make live’, and the whole thing is possibly based on the Sumerian story of Ninti.
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