09-24-2008, 12:43 AM
If you've ever spent a Sunday listening to a sermon in a church in Texas (I have) then you'll realize, that one day in a hot church is about 100,000 years long.
On the other hand, he might have been using a familiar mythological scriptural phrase from Genesis as a springboard for a punch line, rather than slipping in a reference to a personal belief.
When I was a kid, I thought that males and females had a different number of rib bones, because Eve was made from Adam's rib. Not because I thought the story was true, but because a skeletal gender difference was the basis for the myth, and the fairy tale developed around it.
Wait..how many ribs do I have? I have to go count my ribs.
On the other hand, he might have been using a familiar mythological scriptural phrase from Genesis as a springboard for a punch line, rather than slipping in a reference to a personal belief.
When I was a kid, I thought that males and females had a different number of rib bones, because Eve was made from Adam's rib. Not because I thought the story was true, but because a skeletal gender difference was the basis for the myth, and the fairy tale developed around it.
Wait..how many ribs do I have? I have to go count my ribs.