When I was a kid, my Sunday school teacher insisted that — because Eve was created from the rib of Adam (Genesis 2:21-22) — all men had one rib less than women. This extra-biblical idea has a long history, especially given that until the fourteenth century, dissected bodies were mostly men. Anatomists like Andreas Vesalius (1514-64) called the extra-rib doctrine “simply ridiculous” and proved his point by simply counting ribs.
It is ridiculous — though not any more unusual than some stuff that actually is in the Bible. Take Jacob’s understanding of sexual reproduction: he thought that showing stripes to goats while mating would produce striped offspring (Genesis 30:31-43).
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