I always wondered why God used Adam's rib.
The first two human beings God created, Adam and Eve
about (c. 6,000 years ago) in biblical chronology.
Adam
The first man was formed “out of the dust of the ground.”
The human body is made up of 25 elements, every one
essential for human life, all found in the Earth’s soil.
According to biblical chronology, that "man came from the
dust of the ground" was “penned” at the hand of Moses
some c. 3,400 years ago. Yet it wasn’t until 1982, when it
was confirmed that every element in man is found in the soil.
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Eve
"For Adam was first formed, then Eve".
Dust of the Ground, Bone of my Bones
The first woman was made from the rib of the first man.
The components needed to make Eve were already in
Adam’s cells.
All humans have 46 chromosomes, but sex is determined
by only two of them – called X and Y. Males have one X
and one Y.
Females have two Xs, the other 44 chromosomes are
called autosomes, and are the same in males and females
Males need one X to live, and the Y for male reproductive
functions. Females need two X’s for female reproductive
functions.
To make female cells from male cells, God had all the
different kinds of chromosomes he needed. All He had
to do is take out the Y and duplicate the X.
Adam and Eve were separate, unique creations, with
Adam being fully male and Eve being fully female.
God did not need to create any new material to make Eve,
nor was Eve simply a clone of Adam, she was a creation
of God, a different but still one flesh with Adam.
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The rib bone
The first woman was made from the rib bone of the first man.
We have the symbolism of the rib, being at the side of man.
That Scientists have discovered that if the perichondrium (the
membrane covering the rib) is left in place, then the bone will
actually regrow inside of it.
The rib is the only known bone to do this.
Doctors use of rib bone in reconstructive surgery of damaged bone
tissue in other parts of the body. Bone marrow is one of the key
sources for stem cells. These are cells that can convert into all
types of cells in the human body.
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Eve: The mother of all living humans in the bible.
"And Adam called his wife's name Eve;
because she was the mother of all living."
In science Meet Mitochondrial Eve
Mitochondrial Eve - Wikipedia
In human genetics, the Mitochondrial Eve (also mt-Eve, mt-MRCA)
is the matrilineal most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all
currently living humans, i.e., the most recent woman from whom all living humans descend in an unbroken line purely through their mothers, and through the mothers of those mothers, back until all lines converge on one woman.
All human beings contain mitochondrial dna (mtdna).
However, it is only passed on through the female egg.
So while a son and daughter receive mitochondria from
the mother, only the daughter will pass it on to her
descendants.
Noahs 3 sons (wifes) passed this down.
In Light of Genetics…Adam, Eve, and the Creation/Fall
Dr. John C. Sanford and Dr. Robert Carter
https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/a704d4_f5f5f851384f4767889ad115b1e52f65.pdf
67 "We found that the average human being is only about 22 mutations removed from the Eve sequence, although some individuals are as much as 100 mutations removed from Eve" (Figure 11)."The most recent estimate of the mutation rate in human mitochondria is about 0.5 per generation.
68 Thus, even for the most mutated sequences, it would only
require 200 generations (less than 6,000 years) to accumulate
100 mutations."
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Y-Chromosome Adam
Y-chromosomal Adam - Wikipedia
Patrilineal ancestry can be traced with the Y chromosome,
which of course is passed down from father to son.
This one, though, appears to be a lot more difficult to
trace genealogically, as opposed to mtdna. Geneticists
concur that all humans alive came from just one paternal
ancestor.
All humans descended from Adam and Eve.
But only Noah, his wife, and his three sons and their wives survived
the Great Flood (a “bottleneck” of sorts that, according to biblical
chronology, happened around 4,500 years ago).
It is from Noah’s family that all humanity derives.
The closest common Y-chromosomal ancestor, then,
would be Noah, who passed on his “Ys” to his 3 sons.
But the mitochondrial Eve would have long predated this
—the unique mitochondrial dna being carried on not from
Noah’s wife, but from the sons’ wives, passed on to their
[future daughters].
Just in case someone wanted to know.