Delftsman

Oldest Profession?

A surgeon, and architect and an economist were traveling together, and fell to discussing which of them had the oldest profession.

The surgeon says “I think I can claim priority there. If you refer to the book of Genesis, it tells how God took one of Adam’s ribs to create Eve. So God was in fact the first surgeon.”

Then the architect says “Ah, but before he did that he created the heaven and the earth from chaos. That was the work of an architect.”

And the economist says “And who created chaos ?”