Genesis 2:21-25
From OpenWordBase
“... the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; ... and the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man ... and Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man ... therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh ... and they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.”
Medical Science
Surgery, Anesthesia, DNA, Chromosomes (87)
The first surgery was done miraculously on the first man (1 Timothy 2:13). The process involved placing the patient asleep while the surgery was performed. The first use of the process of putting patients asleep during surgery using anesthesia was not until December 11th, 1844. One of Adam’s ribs was removed. The first woman was created from that rib. The rib of a human is literally the side chamber of a human being, which is curved and contains a chamber of cells and also marrow, from which blood is produced. A rib has been found to not only have blood cell-producing marrow, but also to contain DNA, which is now believed to be the building blocks of human development (Sirotkin K College Scholars Program, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Cancer Research June 1986).
We see from verse 23 that the first man and woman were actually two distinct genders made from one flesh (thus “the same flesh”). This sharing of flesh was also the sharing of blood. The largest form of a DNA molecule is called a “chromosome.” Man and woman share an “x” chromosome: man having and “x” and a “y” chromosome, woman having two “x” chromosomes. This marks both their oneness (similarity) and their distinctions. Also, in verse 23, the word “taken” means married. The union of the first man with the first woman made possible the union of two sets of 23 chromosomes that are necessary to form cell division to form a human. The consummation of marriage requires this combination to “be fruitful and multiply.”
