Did Adam and Eve have a belly button?

[paspec]

Real question here is: Was there a literal couple called Adam and Eve representing the first humans, in the Catholic understanding?

 

[CRV]

Yes.

Adam, Eve, and Evolution - CA - “It is equally impermissible to dismiss the story of Adam and Eve and the fall (Gen. 2–3) as a fiction.” and under Adam and Eve: Real People it quotes a passage from the document below by PP XII.

ENCYCLICAL HUMANI GENERIS OF THE HOLY FATHER PIUS XII #37

 

[paspec]

So, there was a literal first couple of humans created by God?

 

[CRV]

I believe there was the individual first Adam, and also Eve, which God created and which all humans come from.

 

[quies]

“Did Adam and Eve have a belly button?”

My gut reaction, after contemplating my navel, would be “no.”

I know for a fact that from watching TV reruns of 1964’s “Gilligan’s Island” and “I Dream of Jeannie” that Ginger, Mary Ann, and Jeannie were each missing their umbilicus.

…So it is possible that they first appeared on humans during the hippie era?!

HTH

 

[commenter]

Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot is a book by Philip Gosse, written in 1857, in which he argues that the fossil record is not evidence of evolution, but rather that it is an act of creation inevitably made so that the world would appear to be older than it is. Wikipedia
Me:
there was a book “Omphalus” (belly button) written over a century ago by Phillip Gosse who wanted to preserve Christian faith but also accommodate evolution and Old Earth evidence, which he understood and accepted - but found a work around.

He described Adam as having a belly button evidence of a birth he never had. He described bones of dinosaurs that never actually lived. He described light created by God already on the way to Earth, from stars created about 4000 BC, like the everything else. All the evidence of the geologists is valid, but so is Genesis.

You gotta give the guy an A for ingenuity.

 

[mdgspencer]

Were there humans a billion tears ago? No.
Why are there people now if there weren’t the first humans? If there weren’t the first humans, how could we exist?
What do we know about the first persons from science. Nothing. How can anyone know there weren’t an Adam and Eve (which probably are symbolic names)?
How can we know God didn’t create them? There is no way of saying this, unless the person doesn’t believe in miracles. This is seems to me a perfectly legitimate reason for saying how the first human came into the world, that is, through the power of God.

 

[0Scarlett_nidiyilii]

I know for a fact that from watching TV reruns of 1964’s “Gilligan’s Island” and “I Dream of Jeannie” that Ginger, Mary Ann, and Jeannie were each missing their umbilicus.

While I appreciate your intelligent and thought-provoking observation, I’m afraid your thesis breaks down terribly in that Jeannie wasn’t human, but a … genie.

Sorry

 

[RaisedCatholic]

I know for a fact that from watching TV reruns of 1964’s “Gilligan’s Island” and “I Dream of Jeannie” that Ginger, Mary Ann, and Jeannie were each missing their umbilicus.

Because TV networks didn’t allow women to show their navels, so they had to cover them…not that they were trying to convey they didn’t have them.

 

[RaisedCatholic]

Real question here is: Was there a literal couple called Adam and Eve representing the first humans, in the Catholic understanding?

When Jesus addressed marriage & divorce, He said “From the beginning” & quoted Genesis 1:27, during Creation week, as well as Genesis 2 when Adam & Eve were “cleaved” together in marriage.

Also, science supports what’s called a “Y-Chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve”:

What are Y-Chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve?

 

[FiveLinden]

Also, science supports what’s called a “Y-Chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve”:

But they never met.