why do snake have vestigal legs?
2007-09-16 11:16:31 · 14 answers · asked by Brendan G 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I love to watch the Fundies shuck and jive when they are asked a question that makes "creationist" escape impossible. Good job.
2007-09-16 11:29:11 · answer #1 · answered by Milepost 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
maximum scientists have confidence that snakes progressed from lizards. There are legless lizards and a few snakes have small protrusions that recommend they as quickly as had legs. i'm no longer precisely helpful why the top is that snakes got here from lizards and not any different way around, yet i think the coolest judgment is that snakes have lots greater progressed biology and are greater adaptable than maximum lizards.
2016-11-14 15:17:06 · answer #2 · answered by trippi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is quite likely that the legless lizards, snakes, etc. could have derived from the original created kind, and so the structures would be consistent with this. ‘Loss’ of a structure is of no comfort to evolutionists as they have to find a mechanism for creating new structures, not losing them, and there is no such mechanism to explain how evolution from ’virus to man’ could occur.
Adaptation and natural selection are a biological fact; evolution is not. Natural selection can only work on the genetic information present in a population of organisms—it cannot create new information. Mutations in genes can only modify or eliminate existing structures, but not create new ones. If in a certain environment a lizard survives better with smaller legs, or no legs, then varieties with this trait will be selected for. This might be more accurately called de-evolution, not evolution!
2007-09-16 11:22:51 · answer #3 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
this one puzzled me
I was always of the belief that Lizards evolved from snakes
you know ... growing legs instead of loosing them
until this was pointed out to me with my own snakes
there are vestigal legs for sure there
2007-09-16 11:21:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Something got added or lost in the translation from hebrew to English !!! Probably the snake's legs
2007-09-16 11:21:31 · answer #5 · answered by rapturefuture 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
snakes didn't evolve from lizards. Look at GENESIS! They lived on TREES! That means that snakes are actually FRUITS! Not animals, Fruits.
2007-09-16 11:26:50 · answer #6 · answered by chicachicabobbob 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I didn,t know they had vestigal legs,I have never seen one that has them,,anyway ask God ,he is the one who created snakes.
2007-09-16 11:22:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
maybe... thats because snakes started with legs..
and it was God's curse in genesis saying "you will crawl on your belly and eat dust" that took them away?
actually that verifies the genesis story.... wow good job.
2013-12-07 11:28:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have but one question for you... why do you think creationists will know what vestigial legs are? In order for them to answer you I have provided a link that will explain the term.
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/darwin/evolution/vestigial.php
2007-09-16 11:23:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Not sure. Never studied the matter.
How did living organisms simply spring out of inorganic matter?
If I leave a brick floating in space, when will life begin on it?
Why is Earth in a continuous orbit around the sun versus simply decaying in orbit and falling into the sun? Without rocket engines to move the Earth, why isn't the gravity of the sun sucking in every planet around it?
2007-09-16 11:20:59 · answer #10 · answered by Chi Guy 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋