@whodey saidfrom the article, emphasis is mine -
https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/Is-the-Bible-right-Newly-discovered-fossils-show-snakes-had-legs-608858
It looks as though science says snakes once had legs.
Was the Bible right all along?
"As described in Genesis, the snake also received divine punishment. “You will crawl on your belly and eat dirt all the days of your life,” God tells the serpent, implying that before the event, the animal had legs, similar to many others."
"implying" is not science
hypothesising is science
i reject the entire story and all accompanying posits
@rookie54 saidAh, but was that a snake or a serpent?
from the article, emphasis is mine -
"As described in Genesis, the snake also received divine punishment. “You will crawl on your belly and eat dirt all the days of your life,” God tells the serpent, implying that before the event, the animal had legs, similar to many others."
"implying" is not science
hypothesising is science
i reject the entire story and all accompanying posits
Yes, yes, I know they are the same, but there are some Christians who will strictly differentiate.
@wolfgang59 saidEvolution or a divine punishment.
This is common knowledge not new science.
Snakes have a vestigial pelvis and some (all?) have vestigial thigh bones.
More evidence for evolution.
I'll have to give this some thought...
@ghost-of-a-duke saidIf divine punishment, it was a sloppy job taking off the legs.
Evolution or a divine punishment.
(Or maybe just exceedingly cruel?)
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@wolfgang59 saidCruel?
If divine punishment, it was a sloppy job taking off the legs.
(Or maybe just exceedingly cruel?)
In your way of thinking it was evolutionally beneficial to lop off the legs of the snake.
That is for you to splain Spanky.
@whodey saidThere would have been an environmentally beneficial reason for doing so. Perhaps they started to burrow underground and legs became redundant or a disadvantage.
So from an evolutionary point of view, why did snakes lose their legs?
Will the same happen to you?
So unless Dive decides to live a subterranean existence, he'll probably hang on to his legs.
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@ghost-of-a-duke saidWell I reckon if you hang with those that do slither around, the tendency would be become like them
There would have been an environmentally beneficial reason for doing so. Perhaps they started to burrow underground and legs became redundant or a disadvantage.
So unless Dive decides to live a subterranean existence, he'll probably hang on to his legs.
I guess that is his choice.
LOL.