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Is the Bible right? Newly discovered fossils show snakes had legs
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| NOVEMBER 24, 2019
| ROSSELLA TERCATIN
Posted on 11/24/2019 6:41:04 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
A new study published in Science Advances on Thursday has shed light on the life of ancient legged snakes.
The Biblical story of the forbidden fruit which discusses how the snake persuaded Eve to taste it, and howshe and Adam, who also ate from it, were subsequently banned from the Garden of Eden by God is probably one of the most well-known narratives in the history of humankind. 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. Now, a new study published in Science Advances on Thursday has shed light on the life of snakes' legged ancestors. Several fossils of an extinct snake group named "Najash" dating back to 100 million years ago were recently uncovered in Patagonia, Argentina. The group is named after the word nachash that both in biblical and modern Hebrew indicate the snake. As reported by the New York Times, the fossils, which include several skulls, seem to suggest that snakes might have lost their front legs millions of years earlier than their hind legs.
TOPICS: Religion & Science
KEYWORDS: bookofjob; crevo; science; snakes; snakezilla; storkzilla
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I am aware of legged snakes in the modern era. How else could one explain Pierre Delecto and most of the rest of government?
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
At one point did they lose the power to talk :)
All I know is if a snake started talking to me, the last thing I would be worried about is temptation.
I’d be running away just about as fast as these fat legs could carry me :)
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posted on
11/24/2019 6:46:09 AM PST
by
dp0622
(Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Or Iranian-born Valerie Jarrett?
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posted on
11/24/2019 6:48:39 AM PST
by
null and void
(Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
I assumed that a snake with legs was called a lizard.
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posted on
11/24/2019 6:51:17 AM PST
by
rfreedom4u
(The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
To: dp0622
I would drop the crack pipe, pull out the opioid syringe, put out the joint and pour out the beer if a snake started talking to me.
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posted on
11/24/2019 6:55:34 AM PST
by
LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
(TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Don’t get me started on legless lizards....
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posted on
11/24/2019 6:55:39 AM PST
by
gundog
( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
To: rfreedom4u
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posted on
11/24/2019 6:56:41 AM PST
by
gundog
( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
How many angles can dance on the head of a pin?
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posted on
11/24/2019 6:56:59 AM PST
by
_Jim
(Save babies)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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.”
I don’t see that implication at all. If anything it suggests the snake was turned into nothing more than a worm.
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posted on
11/24/2019 6:58:11 AM PST
by
Dusty Road
(")
To: dp0622
The Bible is persistently correct.
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posted on
11/24/2019 6:58:55 AM PST
by
Sequoyah101
(We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
To: _Jim
An ∞ number of diffirent angles can be vectored off of the head of a pin. It is just math....
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posted on
11/24/2019 7:00:15 AM PST
by
LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
(TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
To: rfreedom4u
“I assumed that a snake with legs was called a lizard.”
Wrong, you haven’t met my ex.
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posted on
11/24/2019 7:00:48 AM PST
by
duckman
( Not tired of winning!)
To: All
Not just legs but wings as well. They went from the most mobile to the least of their class.
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posted on
11/24/2019 7:04:02 AM PST
by
BipolarBob
(Bipolars have more fun. No we don't.)
To: BipolarBob
So snakes were Pterodactyls?
Chortle.... alright.
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posted on
11/24/2019 7:06:53 AM PST
by
LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
(TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
“Several fossils of an extinct snake group named “Najash” dating back to 100 million years ago were recently uncovered in Patagonia, Argentina “
I thought Earth was only 6000 years old, give or take a few decades.
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11/24/2019 7:14:38 AM PST
by
Ken H
(And Epstein didn't kill himself.)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Geometry; make that geometry - the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties and relations of points, lines, surfaces, solids, and higher dimensional analogs.
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11/24/2019 7:17:11 AM PST
by
_Jim
(Save babies)
To: duckman
“I assumed that a snake with legs was called a lizard.” Wrong, you haven’t met my ex. 12 posted on 11/24/2019, 10:00:48 AM by duckman ( Not tired of winning!) You were married to her also....damn I thought i was he only one
To: _Jim
It’s all maths. What department do geometrists work in?
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posted on
11/24/2019 7:23:33 AM PST
by
LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
(TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Some, 2d. Others strictly 3d. Still, the more theoretic, or those on a “time line”, 4.
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posted on
11/24/2019 7:25:41 AM PST
by
_Jim
(Save babies)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
“Is the Bible right?”
Yes, always.
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posted on
11/24/2019 7:26:06 AM PST
by
HereInTheHeartland
(I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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