[Southflanknorthpawsis]

At any rate, I know snakes evolved from lizards who had legs. I know this happened far in the distant past, in the Mesozoic era, before modern mammals had evolved. I know that therefore, God could not have "punished" snakes by taking their legs away for tempting Adam and Eve and "snakes" didn't tempt them anyway.

You are, in essence, calling God's word a lie or a fairy tale.

If you believe you are a Christian and still deny His truth, I think you need some prayerful time with your Bible. Something is very wrong with this picture.

[ZULU]

I'm not calling God's word a lie or God a liar. That's your interpretation.

What I am stating is that some people interpret everything stated in the Bible literally - word for word. They don't examine or think about what they are reading. They never consider the fact that the Bible is full of allegorical and symbolical stories, tales, etc, which are presented to teach some significant or overriding fact involving morality or God or God's relationship to man.

I hardly think reptilian biology, interesting as I personally find it, is a item of pressing importance in God's Biblical message.

[VRWC_minion]

You are, in essence, calling God's word a lie or a fairy tale.

I didn't see him call God a liar. He is simply describing what he sees in God's creation. He is reporting what he and others are observing.