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I would like to point out that you needed to look at the extreme behaviors of several groups of animals to even get close to matching the far more common behavior of man.
It's unusual to observe social regulation and interaction among social creatures? I think not, but perhaps you have better information than I. The common behavior of humans is...human. It's not necessarily an indication of special divine favor, since giraffes behave as giraffes, horses behave as horses, dogs behave as dogs, and so on. The overlapping areas seem to support a common ancestry and/or a common workable adaptation to social existence. It's not that big a mystery.
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In Genesis woman is punished by the pain of her labor (bearing offspring), and it is only women and not animals that receive this punishment.... To me, this is biblical evidence. Conclusive? No...but still...some evidence...in an an area where it is said there is none.
Which came first, Stevereno...the pain, or the uniformed explanation for it?

Humans are bipedal. Our skeletal structure is such that we have a more difficult time bearing offspring, because we're poorly "engineered" for it. Doesn't sound much like an endorsement for deity to me. If horses were built the same way we are, the females would have an equally painful experience having babies. Assuming the hypothetical Eve had a skeleton similar to mine, it's not surprising she would have childbirth pain similar to mine, and for the same reasons.

In other words, the Genesis explanation appears to be a "just-so" mythology. Not much of a mystery there, either.

Mac