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talk2farley wrote: And for all of you who doubt evolution, explain to me what the hell leg bones are doing in snakes? They sure hell havent walked much in the past few millennia.

Through biological examination, John Crompton, an evolutionist and snake authority who authored the book "Snake Lore," discovered that at one time the snake that crawls upon its belly once had legs. As a matter of fact, at this present time the snake has not completely gotten rid of its legs. Tiny vestigals remain of what were once hind legs and are found inside the bodies of many snakes.

Crompton's record is supported by Klaus Griehl's book titled, "Snakes." Griehl points out that "primitive" snakes, such as boas and pythons, still show vestigial pelvic bones and anal spurs that represent the remnants of hind legs.

From the October 11, 1997, international edition of the Jerusalem Post, is the following excerpt:

A midrash about Adam and Eve now has scientific support: Hebrew University researchers have found evidence that prehistoric snakes had tiny legs.

According to Jewish tradition, the snake who tempted Eve to disobey God was punished by being forced to crawl on his belly forever.

The researchers also concluded from a close re-examination of snake fossils that they originated in the sea, rather than underground.

A team from the Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, headed by Prof. Eitan Tchernov, found that the fossils had two small but anatomically complete hind legs. Tchernov will present his findings this month at the international conference of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Chicago.

A wire service report printed in the Beaver County Times March 17, 2000 reads:
A team of researchers has reached into a dusty drawer and pulled out a snake with legs.

The discovery could upset at least some theories about the evolution of snakes.

"The fossil had been sitting in the museum drawer at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem since the death of researcher Georg Haas in the early 1980s," said Oliver Rieppel of the Field Museum in Chicago.

Another wire service reads as follows:
In their recent analysis of two 90 million-year-old lizard fossils from Israel, Michael W. Caldwell of Chicago's Field Museum and Michael S. Y. Lee of the University of Sydney in Australia concluded that the bones belonged to an ancestral snake. The fossils have several features in common with modern snakes, especially their long, slender bodies and distinctive skulls.

But the fossils also have obvious legs and lived in the sea. That doesn't jibe with the traditional view of ancestral asps, which are thought of as legless burrowing reptiles.

So in the April 17 issue of the Journal Nature, Caldwell and Lee advance the bold suggestion that snakes are most closely related to the mosasaurs, giant swimming reptiles that lived at the time of dinosaurs.

GOD SAID the serpent was cursed and it would crawl upon its belly.

Of the serpent specifically, God says in Genesis Chapter 3, Verses 14-15:
14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: