Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? - Martin Gardner

It’s a more interesting question than you might think. Well, did Adam and Eve have belly-buttons or not? If they didn’t, then how did their descendants get them? That kind of thinking leads to evolution, which is out for many religious fundamentalists. If they did, than that suggests that they were born. Again, that goes against Biblical teaching. It’s a bizarre little conundrum, but one that has exercised a number of different religious thinkers over time. The question provides both the title of Martin Gardner’s latest opus and his opening chapter. It manages to combine science, religion and the activities of cranky obsessives in one ...