Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "Jordan Peterson - Why God's Purpose for Eve Is Important" video.

  1. In Jewish "mythology" ... which existed long before Christian mythology ... the characters were Adam and Lilith ... not ... Adam and Eve. And to say that preachers of religion (who didn’t have any science in their vocabularies) were confused … would be a vast understatement. The archaic idea of whether Adam had a belly button originated with the devout Christian Protestant Philip Henry Gosse … in his book published in 1857, by the title “Omphalos.” His book was a poor seller … but the gossip spread and became infectious … as the Omphalos Hypothesis became a very big deal to theologians, that in turn would come from miles around to gather and discuss the subject … never being able to decide whether “God” created Adam with or without a belly button. More information on the Omphalos hypothesis comes from the book … The Madman’s Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History … author … Edward Brooke-Hitching … “A devout Christian, Gosse’s central hypothesis is that the conflict between the ancient age of the Earth proposed by geologists of the Victorian era, and the much more recent creation date given in the Bible, could be resolved with a simple explanation he called the Omphalos (Greek for ‘navel’) hypothesis. The argument goes like this: the first human, Adam, must have had a navel (as we inherited ours from him), despite the fact that he didn’t need one as God created him. So God must have given him the feature to create the appearance of human ancestry. Thus, the seemingly ancient fossil record might also be evidence of God’s creation, put there by Him to again create a sense of endless history, and test our faith. The book sold poorly, the critical reception best represented by the reaction of the Westminster Review, which described Godde’s theory as “too monstrous for belief’.”
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