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Do you beleive women have more ribs than men do?

So I'm watching Family Feud with hubby the other night, and one of the questions was, "what is it about women that makes you think they were designed by god?" and hubby, who grew up deeply indoctrinated into the Penticostal Holiness religion, says, "they have more ribs!" I said "huh?" o.O Then I realized he was serious! So I told him, "No Sweetie, you've been lied to again."

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  • 6 years ago
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    Cool story... I have something similar to share.

    We had a female human skeleton in my high school biology classroom and discussed that men and women actually do have the same number of ribs, way back in 1961. When a local preacher complained to the school board about "lying biology teachers", my teacher borrowed a male skeleton from another high school and took both skeletons to a school board meeting and actually counted the ribs in front of both the board members and local newspaper reporters. The teacher received a standing ovation and local headlines, and the preacher was never heard from again.

  • DrJ
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    It's interesting that human males and females have the same number of ribs. Another reason to doubt the story. Of course, one might ask which bone is lacking in human males versus his close relatives among the primates. You can look this up. All primates except humans and spider monkeys have a baculum. In fact it has been suggested IN A MEDICAL JOURNAL, that, if one does believe the story about the origin of Eve, that it is the baculum, NOT the rib that created Eve. Fact check me: http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/28/gilbert_zevit...

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Nope. I'm always amazed at how some people believe off-the-wall thing and take them as a given. I once had a girlfriend who, in the same way, you'd say "well, care use fuel", said "since Earth is only 6000 years old..." It took me a sec, but I did a double-take and said "what did you say?"

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Poor you. You must live in a town where there are no psychiatrists. Otherwise you'd have long ago gotten the help you so desperately need.

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    We must believe the story of Creation. It's true and another peculiarity of women.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    I've never counted so I don't know

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    no. they do not, that is a myth. equal number of ribs is a medical fact.

  • Cogito
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Of course not.

    Any basic X-Ray would prove this to be incorrect.

  • 6 years ago

    That's the kind of thing that happens when you abandon the one Church Jesus Christ founded, to which He promised the fullness of truth. Sad.

  • dodo
    Lv 5
    6 years ago

    why? if god wanted humans to multiply and fill the earth then he shouldve given women more nipples.

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