(July 30, 2015 at 5:09 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Dritch,
To be very clear:
The Bible: Snakes once had legs. When they did have legs, a snake (or the one snake existing then---it isn't clear) spoke in full sentences and tempted Eve. Eve took the bait, and god punished the snake by taking away it's legs.
The Current State of Scientific Knowledge: Snakes do not and never had the ability to talk let alone reason well enough to tempt anyone. Snakes once had legs, but they did not suddenly lose them. The legs gradually went away. The legs in the fossil would not hold the snake off the ground. They were legs on the decline. Snakes lost their legs long before humans developed so no human ever saw let alone talked to a snake with legs.
The Contradictions: Snakes are not thinking talking animals though the Bible says they were. Snakes did not suddenly lose their legs though the Bible says they did. There are many species of snakes though the Bible implies there was only one. Legged snakes and humans never shared the planet at the same moment in time.
Verdict: The Bible is cannot possibly be describing a real event. The snake/leg story in the Bible is a just-so story that happens to contain a grain of truth, that grain being that snakes once had legs. Everything else in the story contradicts what we know about snakes.
Perhaps you missed the snake-as-ventriloquist-dummy explanation, courtesy of Drich's ass. That should set you straight.
