Snakes had legs?

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?

@whodey said
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?

Do you have a scripture saying that snakes had legs?

Not sure what you are driving at here.

@whodey said
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?

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

@rookie54 said
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."

Ah thank you, good point.

@rookie54 said
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

Ah, but was that a snake or a serpent?

Yes, yes, I know they are the same, but there are some Christians who will strictly differentiate.

@divegeester said
Ah thank you, good point.

I think the implicit intent was: if the Bible was right about this, then can we assume it is right about everything else (e.g., the flood, the resurrection, etc)? The answer is “no.” One lucky hit does not validate the rest. Each claim is to be tested and evaluated on its own merits.

@whodey said
It looks as though science says snakes once had legs.

This is common knowledge not new science.

Snakes have a vestigial pelvis and some (all?) have vestigial thigh bones.
More evidence for evolution.

@wolfgang59 said
This is common knowledge not new science.

Snakes have a vestigial pelvis and some (all?) have vestigial thigh bones.
More evidence for evolution.

Evolution or a divine punishment.

I'll have to give this some thought...

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Evolution or a divine punishment.

If divine punishment, it was a sloppy job taking off the legs.
(Or maybe just exceedingly cruel?)

@wolfgang59
Snakes would be jealous creatures

@wolfgang59 said
If divine punishment, it was a sloppy job taking off the legs.
(Or maybe just exceedingly cruel?)

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 said
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.

If you are going to argue against the theory of evolution you really ought to understand it just a little bit.

@divegeester said
If you are going to argue against the theory of evolution you really ought to understand it just a little bit.

So from an evolutionary point of view, why did snakes lose their legs?

Will the same happen to you?

@whodey said
So from an evolutionary point of view, why did snakes lose their legs?

Will the same happen to you?

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.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
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.

Well I reckon if you hang with those that do slither around, the tendency would be become like them

I guess that is his choice.

LOL.