# Is Eve an Equal Partner to Adam?

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**Tags:** Theology, Society\
**Created:** [February 25, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/is-eve-an-equal-partner-to-adam/9697 "2020-02-25T03:45:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Eddie](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Eddie)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/is-eve-an-equal-partner-to-adam/9697/37 "2020-02-25T15:28:01Z")

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> [@Roy](#):
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> Unless you can produce some specific characteristics of university structure that apply to 11th century Italian French and English schools but not to al-Qarawiyyin, you have nothing but assertion.

I see that you have now become an expert on the history of Western universities? You have academic training in medieval history, then?

I’m far from ever relying on Wikipedia to establish anything, but since other people here seem to regard it as an oracle, and since I know from my own immersion in the study of medieval education that this Wikipedia statement is roughly correct, I’ll reproduce it:

“This article contains a **list of the oldest existing universities in continuous operation** in the world. Inclusion in this list is determined by the date at which the educational institute met the traditional definition of a [university](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University)[[Note 1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in_continuous_operation#cite_note-2) although it may have existed as a different kind of institute before that time.[[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in_continuous_operation#cite_note-Hyde_1991-1) This definition limits the term “university” to institutions with distinctive structural and legal features that developed in Europe, and which make the university form different from other institutions of higher learning in the pre-modern world.”

> **[List of oldest universities in continuous operation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in_continuous_operation)**
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> This is a list of the oldest existing universities in continuous operation in the world.
> Inclusion in this list is determined by the date at which the educational institute first met the traditional definition of a university used by academic historians\[Note 1\]\[specify\] although it may have existed as a different kind of institution before that time. This definition limits the term university to institutions with distinctive structural and legal features that developed in Europe, and which ma...

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