 Why does the crew later refer to Ha-Adamah as Adam?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, March 1961. Naturally they did not get results at once, nor did they expect to; it required a fine adjustment. But they were disappointed that they found nothing for several hours as they hovered high over the rotation. As though there were but one city, if that is its form. But this might be so varied or so unfamiliar that often both the machine and the designer of it were puzzled as to how to read the results. It was for this reason that Glaser used that model no more, but built others more amenable. On Earth it had read Positive on a number of crack-pots, including Waxey Sax, a jazz tootler who could not even read music. He then narrowed to a smaller area (apparently one individual, though this could not be certain) and got very definite action. Finally it signaled the result, the most exasperating result it ever produces: the single orange light. They called it the "You tell me light." "Not a building, not two sticks or stones placed together. And those two ... why, they could well be Earth-people. And one could only wish that all people were like them. There was a man and a woman, and they were clothed either in very bright garments or in no garments at all, but only in a very bright light. "Ha-Adamah," said the man. "What do you make of them?" asked Stark.
 Ha-Adamah is Adam's Hebrew origination.
 He responds to Adam, and they decide it's his true name  Ha-Adamah is Adam's Hebrew origination.  The planet feels so much like the Garden of Eden, that they begin to believe he is Adam  They want to test Adam and see if he accepts it as his name.