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Originally Posted by Og  I was in a talk today with a scientist who was giving a more layperson directed discussion of the genetic/neuronal basis of obesity, sexual preference, and monogamy.
While talking about sexual preference, he described in mice (and humans) about how every creature is prototypically female and that it requires the intervention of the Y chromosome to produce testes which then produce testosterone which drives all male specific phenotypes. Without that intervention, all of us would be female (the prototypic human out of which all are generated).
He then mentioned that it was the exact opposite of genesis. I laughed out loud. Thought it was a neat paradigm shift and food for thought in face of the male structured christian/hebrew religion. |
i agree that genisis does have it backward. perhaps it should have been "... and man came from woman..." and by the way, since you interperate genisis metaphoricaly, i was wandering if you knew the meaning behind Eve being created from Adam's rib. i understand the "flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, etc." but i do not understand why it had to be a rib. do you think it was just a random bone, or was there significance in that specific bone?