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	<title>Comments on: A Long Lizard with very Short Arms</title>
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	<description>The institutionalized doodles and discoveries of a dead-animal designer.</description>
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		<title>By: Nate</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nate</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just stumbled onto this page in researching legless lizards, and I have to say that was one of the funniest exchanges I&#039;ve ever read on the Internet. Thanks for the information AND entertainment!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just stumbled onto this page in researching legless lizards, and I have to say that was one of the funniest exchanges I&#8217;ve ever read on the Internet. Thanks for the information AND entertainment!</p>
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		<title>By: Matt Celeskey</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matt Celeskey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The limblessness of snakes appears to have begun during the Cretaceous period, around 100,000,000 years ago by the fossil record, and in some species is still incomplete. Pythons and boas, for instance, still retain some vestigial limbs. 

While I tend to view the stories of Genesis as allegorical in nature (i.e., not an accurate representation of past events), some researchers have taken a more literal reading and suggested that the transitional fossils showing limblessness in serpents can help us pinpoint the Fall of Man to somewhere within the Cretaceous period (145,000,000–65,000,000 years ago +/- six days).

Perhaps the most pertinent question for biology is this: did THE CREATOR GOD, as you put it, directly remove the snakes&#039; limbs as part of (H)is/(H)er curse, forcing them to crawl on their bellies due to limblessness; or, did the curse only require the wayward members of Class Serpentes to crawl upon their bellies, with their subsequent limblessness being an evolutionary adaptation to the divine restrictions placed on their locomotor habits?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The limblessness of snakes appears to have begun during the Cretaceous period, around 100,000,000 years ago by the fossil record, and in some species is still incomplete. Pythons and boas, for instance, still retain some vestigial limbs. </p>
<p>While I tend to view the stories of Genesis as allegorical in nature (i.e., not an accurate representation of past events), some researchers have taken a more literal reading and suggested that the transitional fossils showing limblessness in serpents can help us pinpoint the Fall of Man to somewhere within the Cretaceous period (145,000,000–65,000,000 years ago +/- six days).</p>
<p>Perhaps the most pertinent question for biology is this: did THE CREATOR GOD, as you put it, directly remove the snakes&#8217; limbs as part of (H)is/(H)er curse, forcing them to crawl on their bellies due to limblessness; or, did the curse only require the wayward members of Class Serpentes to crawl upon their bellies, with their subsequent limblessness being an evolutionary adaptation to the divine restrictions placed on their locomotor habits?</p>
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		<title>By: Leatrice Porcher-Watsn</title>
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		<dc:creator>Leatrice Porcher-Watsn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>(This is in addition to reply sent minutes ago)

P.S.  The legs and arms were shortened when those  parts broken &amp; scattered when whatever event occured that made his remains a fossil.  

No such disaster has occured on this Earth to create fossils of human or animal remains.  When human or animal remains are dug up on this Earth they are in one skeleton piece and not fossil state -- and this will be true a billion years from now.  Fossils are the host of the original Earth that (as Genesis 1:2 record) was without form and void - gone.

A reply is requested.</description>
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<p>P.S.  The legs and arms were shortened when those  parts broken &amp; scattered when whatever event occured that made his remains a fossil.  </p>
<p>No such disaster has occured on this Earth to create fossils of human or animal remains.  When human or animal remains are dug up on this Earth they are in one skeleton piece and not fossil state &#8212; and this will be true a billion years from now.  Fossils are the host of the original Earth that (as Genesis 1:2 record) was without form and void &#8211; gone.</p>
<p>A reply is requested.</p>
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		<title>By: Leatrice Porcher-Watsn</title>
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		<dc:creator>Leatrice Porcher-Watsn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Snakes lost their legs when they were cursed by THE CREATOR GOD to crawl on their bellies (Genesis 3.)

The snake was the most subtile (small but crafty) beast created by THE CREATOR GOD.  Other articles on this topice reveal he also had forearms and fingers.

These articles also report his legs were for attacking, but he crawled on his belly and used his shoulders for pushing through the dirt.  How silly.  If you had arms and legs why would you burrow through the ground or only use your legs to attack.

A reply is appreiciated.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Snakes lost their legs when they were cursed by THE CREATOR GOD to crawl on their bellies (Genesis 3.)</p>
<p>The snake was the most subtile (small but crafty) beast created by THE CREATOR GOD.  Other articles on this topice reveal he also had forearms and fingers.</p>
<p>These articles also report his legs were for attacking, but he crawled on his belly and used his shoulders for pushing through the dirt.  How silly.  If you had arms and legs why would you burrow through the ground or only use your legs to attack.</p>
<p>A reply is appreiciated.</p>
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