The book of Genesis in the bible tells us that God created man from the dust of the earth and finding man lonely because of lack companionship, put him to sleep, took a rib and out of fashioned woman. Most religions and cults have the same or similar belief and from it came the belief that all women were created from man. Thus was born the lower image given to women.
Being a man, I’d be glad to say that we came first but I’d be happier to accept facts than mere religious beliefs. So, was woman really created from man?
Today I came across an article from Livescience.com discussing the point of why man have breasts. I remember asking my wife that before and we just both laughed and said, may God gave men breasts for the sake of pleasure for most of men definitely can’t breastfeed our children. I said “most” because I’ve heard stories of some men lactating.
So, why do men have breasts? The answer was plain and simple but surprising. It’s because all males are females to begin with. Shocking but true. Fact is all human start out as females in the womb. The article states the default blueprint for humans is a female. Allow me to quote from it (emphasis are all mine):
It’s not until about week six that the fetus also begins to take on the biological accoutrements of gender.
If the fetus has a Y chromosome, testosterone will turn the buds for sexual organs into testes. Once in operation, those testes will pump out even more testosterone and, voila, a penis appears.
Female fetuses aren’t swayed by testosterone and so they stick with the fallback blueprint that calls for ovaries and a vagina.
But the developmental secret here is that breasts and nipples are already in place before testosterone shows its hand and starts shaping cells into male organs.
Source: LiveScience - Why Men Have Breasts
I’ve heard this before from my high school biology teacher (see it pays to listen in class) but back then I was just concerned with my grades than with the facts. He told us that men are flukes of nature. If it was not for the Y chromosome, we would be living in an all-female world.
Science states that man was created from woman and not the other way around. This is a proven fact and I believe is agreed upon by all men of science. The article I referred to above also had some interesting comments regarding the topic that I suggest you read.
Looks like the bible is wrong once more.
June 8th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
As far as I know men’s breasts are fully functional, just need the hormone prolactin.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-males-can-lactate
A colleague and I started this subject in the control romm for fun, word quickly got around, “don’t go into the control room”. Turns out that for many it seems to be a sort of taboo subject, they find it embarrassing lol
There is a lot in the Bible that is not fully understood, I’m not sure if we should take the creation account literally. As a Christian I just believe God created the universe. How it was done only he knows.
When Jesus was on earth he performed miracles to prove he was the Son of God. It was God’s supernatural power that healed the sick etc. Miracles still happen every day, anyone who believes can ask God for anything.
In Florida there is a Great Healing Revival going on lead by Todd Bentley, there are many stories of amazing supernatural interventions.
http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/life/The_Florida_Outpouring_With_Todd_Bentley/31710/p1/
September 11th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Hi, Mike, I just added you as a Stumble friend — I had missed that you already added me. Sorry it took a whike to find out.
Great post, and I fully agree with you. And, as you might guess, I fully disagree with proselytizing Robert above. Sadly, he still has to get rid of his dangerous memes, and start thinking for himself.
@1, Robert: Right, “stories of amazing supernatural interventions.” Stories, that’s one of the ways memes propagate, or as some would phrase ‘procreate’.