Scientific gadfly Martin Gardner asks the questions that make believers of all types cringe. Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? is one such example and is the title and lead essay from this collection of his columns from Skeptical Inquirer

Scientific gadfly Martin Gardner asks the questions that make believers of all types cringe. Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? is one such example and is the title and lead essay from this collection of his columns from Skeptical Inquirer. While many scientifically minded people find the fundamentalist skepticism of Gardner, the Amazing Randi, and their ilk to be a bit straining, the skeptics' voices are relatively quiet compared with the hordes of pseudo- and anti-scientific hucksters scoring political points and big bucks by exploiting ignorance and credulity

Gardner, Martin, 1914-2010.

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Discourses On Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, And Other Dubious Subjects".

Full title: "Did Adam And Eve Have Navels? Discourses On Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, And Other Dubious Subjects".

If Adam and Eve did not have navels, then they were not perfect human beings. On the other hand, if they had navels, then the navels would imply a birth they never experienced. Bruce Felton and Mark Fowler are the authors of The Best, Worst, and Most Unusual (Galahad Books, 1994). In this entertaining reference work, they devote several paragraphs (pp. 146-47) to what they call "the worst theological dispute

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Martin Gardner is perhaps the wittiest, most devastating unmasker of scientific fraud and .

Martin Gardner is perhaps the wittiest, most devastating unmasker of scientific fraud and intellectual chicanery of our time. Here he muses on topics as diverse as numerology, New Age anthropology, and the late Senator Claiborne Pell's obsession with UFOs, as he mines Americans' seemingly inexhaustible appetite for bad science. Gardner's funny, brilliantly unsettling exposés of reflexology and urine therapy should be required reading for anyone interested in "alternative" medicine. In a world increasingly tilted toward superstition, Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? will give those of us who prize logic and common sense immense solace and inspiration.

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Discourses on Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, and Other Dubious Subjects (New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000). All but one of the chapters in Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? (DA&EHN?), Gardner's fifth anthology of what he considers far-out cases of pseudoscience (p. 1), are reprints of recent articles from his column Notes of a Fringe Watcher, a regular feature of Skeptical Inquirer. The title alone of the book under discussion lets us know that Gardner cannot help but take a few cheap shots at that lunatic fringe sect known as fundamentalist Christianity.

Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? (W. Norton, 2000, 11 + 333 pages) is subtitled "Discourses on Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, and Other Dubious Subjects.

I find it difficult to speak temperately about Martin Gardner because I owe him so much.

- Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? Discourses on Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy and Other Dubious Subjects By Martin Gardner . I find it difficult to speak temperately about Martin Gardner because I owe him so much. As a child in England, my keenest intellectual pleasure was reading Gardner's monthly "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American.