Snake with leg (Not an equally-large boa).

[baratron]

I really should clear out most of the links that have sat in my Opera window for several weeks, again. But I'm too tired for coherent posts. So...

SNAKE WITH LEG, linked by kixie. Awesome fossil of a snake, with legs. Take that, "Creation science"! (Seriously, I have never understood why people see a conflict between evolution and existence of deity. To me, mutation and natural selection are the ways in which $deity creates new species, assembling living organisms molecule by molecule and tinkering with genes. The deity I believe in is the ultimate experimental scientist.)

The other links I have are all video game-related, and none of them are anywhere near as awesome as the snake with leg, so I'll save them for another time.

Comments

[post-ecdysis.livejournal.com]

Um, actually the creationists would argue that this validates Genesis 3. God's punishment to the Serpent for tempting Eve was to walk on his belly for all eternity, so that sort of folk has long presumed that snakes had legs before the Fall.

Aside from that, I am in utter agreement.

[keldaryth.livejournal.com]

This is awesome!

And true true re: evolution and existence of a diety!

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

I thought that snake was just the coolest of cool. Also the techniques they use for studying it. I just don't see the "check the bible" crowd showing that kind of care and patience with anything non-biblical.