The Top 7 Great Unsolvable Mysteries
of God and Religion

7 Why do winning athletes thank God for their victory,
but we never see players on the other team blaming God for their loss? If He made one side win, He must have made the other side lose. But you never hear, "We had a good running game, and our pass reception was great, but thanks to God we lost. Guess he liked the other guys better."

6 Why do we assume Adam and Eve ate an apple?
The Genesis story in the Bible only mentions "fruit" forbidden by God. In the Middle East the forbidden fruit was more likely a fig or a bunch of grapes. Personally I think the apple story was floated by Steve Jobs.

5 Why are natural disasters called "acts of God"?
Floods, tornados, fires, all the natural phenomena that wipe out lives and property—if you're a believer, shouldn't you instead blame these evils on the devil? Or if you really think these are acts of God, shouldn't you welcome them, support them, celebrate them? Better not fight against them anyway—that's opposing the works of God! (Inspiration for this mystery came from my skeptical correspondent CrabbyR.)

4 If TV evangelist Benny Hinn is such a great faith healer
— giving eyesight to the blind, dissolving tumours and curing heart disease right there on stage — why can't he grow hair on top of his head? The man has the most outlandish comb-over I've ever seen. A kilogram of hair emanating from one little spot above his right ear and swathed around his head like a halo. Is male pattern baldness the one malady God has problems with? Couldn't He at least conjure up a Rogaine treatment for the man? (Actually, God may have finally come through for the guy, judging by Hinn's latest coif which is suspiciously different. Maybe I wasn't the only one to point out this mystery.)

3 Why does Adam have nipples in all the pictures?
Think about it. Presumably Eve got them to suckle their young. But Adam was created before Eve, so he couldn't have got his nipples just to match her. And don't try to argue that both Adam and Eve were made in God's image. That only raises the question of what the heck God needed with nipples.

2 Why do Adam and Eve have bellybuttons?
Navels of course are created by the cutting of the umbilical cord that attaches newborns to their mothers. But if Adam and Eve were the first people on earth, they could not have had mothers to whom they'd been connected. Hence no insies or outsies. Yet to be the perfect human beings that they were supposedly created as, they're shown with bellybuttons. And they were created in God's image, so he must have one too. How did He get His?

And the Number One great unsolvable mystery of God and religion:

If God didn’t want us to pick our noses,
then why did he make our fingers and nostrils exactly the same size?