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Posthuman navel gazing

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Omphalos is the classical Greek word for "navel." Not coincidentally, the omphalos is also an iconic religious object representing our creation out of chaos--as well as the original name of a modern creationist hypothesis arguing that God created the earth with all the signs of pre-existing age, from geological strata to the belly-button on Adam when God made him from dirt.

Yet pictured above is a genuine miracle: a woman without a belly button. She's evidence of either our imminent posthuman future or a photo-editor getting a bit too enthusiastic with Photoshop's clone tool.

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