Genesis 3:14
“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…”
It’s rather interesting that evolutionists believe that snakes once had legs and lost them. This sounds very much like the Genesis account of the serpent in the Garden of Eden.
Obviously, evolutionists don’t accept the story of the first temptation. As far as they are concerned, the snake evolved from some reptile which originally had legs. But evolutionists have always tried to find some evolutionary advantage to losing legs and, thus, justify their theory. In 1973 an unpublished study suggested that garter snakes use 30 percent less energy for locomotion than they would if they had legs. That study was preliminary and never published. But that didn’t stop evolutionists from saying that they had found the reason that snakes don’t have legs.
Now, a much more exhaustive study done at the University of California at Irvine, has shown that this evolutionary explanation is false. Outfitting black racer snakes with oxygen masks and using modern precision equipment, including a snake-sized treadmill, researchers have shown that snakes use as much energy as a creature of the same weight to get around. The supposed evolutionary advantage to not having legs has disappeared under the bright light of scientific investigation.
And so yet another so-called scientific claim that the Bible has been proven wrong fails in the light of careful science.
Prayer:
Dear Father, modern man seeks to avoid his responsibility to You by trying to explain the world as if You are not its Creator. Correct me when I try to deny my sin, for I know that You are love and that Your love has been shown to me in the forgiveness of sins through Jesus Christ. In His Name. Amen.
Notes:
Painting: Close-up of the snake in Michelangelo’s portrayal of the Fall. Sistine Chapel, Rome.
