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.
Hey there bryan hopefully you are trolling... Obviously you have no idea what a mutation is and totally missed the point on how snakes evolved toxins. Mutations generally add information by making copies of an entire gene or change information by single base mutations. There are of course deletion mutations mostly lethal. Take a molecular genetics class at a major university before you try and pass your misinformation off on others. For an example flowers which are pink or purple differ only in that a pink flower may only have one copy of a pigment gene as opposed to a purple flower with multiple copies of a pigment gene. Just the same as you add pigment to paint to make it darker. Hence a darker flower. Just the same snakes which are more venomous have multiple copies of the same gene, or the same gene with slight mutations. Entropy is avoided by the use of energy. For most life on earth the sun is the ultimate source of energy. By harnessing and using energy, order is established in living systems. If you didn't add energy to yourself by eating you would die and decay into more simple compounds. Maybe God keeps you alive...or mcdonalds your choice. You are correct evolution is not a force it's the slow process by which life came to exist. Life was not created. I guess you are still waiting for someone to create life in a test tube and play god. Give it another year or two. Viruses have already been made from scratch.
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