You mean, God has afterthoughts: “It is not good for man to be alone”? Why didn’t he think of that before? Oh, but it’s so stupid to have to say this to an intelligent society — except that it isn’t an intelligent society. Will it ever be? Oh Gloom and Slough of Despond.
Randomfactorsays
Nah. God didn’t leave Adam alone; he just overestimated Adam’s interest in bestiality.
Menyambalsays
Interesting point. It really only makes sense if the whole thing is just a cobbled-together bunch of folk myths.
Stacysays
That was a just-so story–or joke–explaining the absence of the baculum in human males. Eve was made from Adam’s penis bone!
Gordon Willis says
You mean, God has afterthoughts: “It is not good for man to be alone”? Why didn’t he think of that before? Oh, but it’s so stupid to have to say this to an intelligent society — except that it isn’t an intelligent society. Will it ever be? Oh Gloom and Slough of Despond.
Randomfactor says
Nah. God didn’t leave Adam alone; he just overestimated Adam’s interest in bestiality.
Menyambal says
Interesting point. It really only makes sense if the whole thing is just a cobbled-together bunch of folk myths.
Stacy says
That was a just-so story–or joke–explaining the absence of the baculum in human males. Eve was made from Adam’s penis bone!
http://www.improbable.com/2012/06/04/adams-rib-a-biblical-euphemism/