"You have to dig deep in the quran to understand". I think I did. Moreover, the deeper you go in the quran, the more you will realize that there is nothing holy about it. You will realize that it is just the ideas, fiction and a collection of pre-historic stories by a man, or several but started with a man, that just wanted fame and power.
I have similar issues with the bible, but more importantly; If you look into the contributions that Arabic or Persians have made to science; it is mind blowing.
Arab scholars even theorized about evolution, arriving at conclusions that anticipated Darwin. In 1377, nearly half a millennium before the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species, the Tunisian-born historiographer Ibn Khaldun, renowned as one of the founders of sociology, asserted in Al-Muqaddimah (Prolegomena), “The animal kingdom was developed, its species multiplied, and in the gradual process of Creation, it ended in man & arising from the world of the monkeys.”
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200703/rediscovering.arabic.s...
It saddens me to see what happened to Arabic Secularism. IMHO, the west is largely to blame.
I don't know anything about the Quran, but I do have a friend that actually thought that men had one less ribs than women because that missing rib was what god made women out of. When several medical friends (a doctor, 2 nurses, even a chiropractor) explained that men and women have the same number of ribs, she lost her mind... until she rationalized that god replaced Adam's missing rib, so all is well in her noggin!
So to answer your question, women were created from ribs that were replaced by other, newer ribs, much like first wives are replaced by second (trophy) wives.
@mohammed, Thank you that is a good point. As an engineering student (80's) I met so many Arab and Persian students, we helped each other in studies. Religion was never discussed, and I never saw them bow to Mecca. I wonder if they were even religious.
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