To: Shryke
>>What is your take on the leg remnants that appear on Boa Contrictors?<<
Genesis 3:14
So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
You asked. 8^>
155 posted on
08/03/2004 11:10:25 AM PDT by
RobRoy
(You only "know" what you experience. Everything else is mere belief.)
To: RobRoy
So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. So, God cursed the serpent by making snakes incredibly efficient for their ecological niche?
Anyway, why keep the vestigial bones? Seems kind of like an inefficient approach to cursing.
Along a similar line, explain why whales are occasionally born with vestigial legs?
158 posted on
08/03/2004 11:25:16 AM PDT by
Modernman
("I have nothing to declare except my genius." -Oscar Wilde)
To: RobRoy
![](http://members.shaw.ca/victoriausa/SaberCrouch.jpg)
>>What is your take on the leg remnants that appear on Boa Contrictors?<< Genesis 3:14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
More cursed than this...? ![](http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/bioinformatics/lizards/images/austllive2.jpg)
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To: RobRoy
So, G-d performed an incomplete curse? Left visible remnants on some, and not others?
160 posted on
08/03/2004 11:28:38 AM PDT by
Shryke
(Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.)
To: RobRoy
So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. Surely an omnipotent deity could have done a better job on the vestigial organ removal?
To: RobRoy; Shryke
So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
Keep in mind that God meant the "crawl on your belly" part to be literal, but the "eat dust" part merely symbolic. Of what, I don't know, but then again, I don't have that special creationist ability to discern such things.
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