Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons / navels?

Response

A navel or “belly button” (sometimes spelled as one word—bellybutton) is a scar formed by the umbilical cord that connects a baby in the womb to the placenta and, therefore, to the mother. The belly button, or umbilicus, marks the point where the umbilical cord had been attached to the unborn baby. After the baby is born, the umbilical cord is severed and detaches from the infant, leaving only a scar where the cord had been attached.

Adam and Eve, of course, did not go through the normal birthing process and were never unborn babies in a mother’s womb. Rather, Adam was formed from the dust of the earth (cf. Genesis 2:7) and Eve was formed from Adam’s rib (cf. Genesis 2:21-22). Both Adam and Eve were the result of God’s direct creative action.

Never having been in a womb, Adam and Eve would never have needed umbilical cords. Without umbilical cords, Adam and Eve would not have been scarred by their detachment. Therefore, we can speculate that Adam and Eve probably did not have navels. God created our first parents without scars.

We use “probably” because Scripture has not informed us whether Adam and Eve had belly buttons. However, based on the available evidence, it appears to be a reasonable conclusion. Adam and Eve were the only individuals in the history of the world not to possess belly buttons.