As predators, snakes are missing a few key attributes. They have no legs to chase down their prey, no paws to knock down quarry, and no claws to hold their victims. But none of these deficiencies matters much, because evolution has handed snakes the ultimate weapon: venom. With it, the several hundred types of venomous snakes can kill or debilitate before their victims escape.
cwbabcock, it is quite clear that your understanding of Science in general is horribly flawed. At first I thought "this must be a troll post." But then I noticed that "Gawd" has been invoked and therefore logic and reason no longer had a place in this argument. And whats this about anti-gawd rhetoric? By the very nature of your argument you are anti-god in every way. Who is to say that your view of creation is the correct one? Because it says so in a Bible that was written by Jewish priests 2000 years ago (merely as guide to living and not meant to be taken literally)? What makes that any more relevant than, say, Scandinavian folklore and Norse Mythology? Because a charismatic schizophrenic said he was born of GAWD? Arnold Glagow once said "The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion" and boy do you prove him right. But it's ok, I was once like that too. But then I got an education :) And if it was a troll post, I commend you - you successfully trolled!
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