Re: Serpent Evidence

2005-9-26 00:26:00

Larry writes:

Carl Sagan never suggested that human beings once interbred with a reptilian species. If you are suggesting that then I believe you are seriously misrepresenting the facts.

I never said that. The data could support that idea though or at least that the two races developed along similar lines of evolution.

Larry:

There is nothing in this model to suggest that a reptile species could interbreed and produce viable offspring with mammalian humans. From a biological perspective that idea is ridiculous.

Why do you say this is ridiculous? Someone may look at two very different species of dogs and think they could never breed but they can.

There is no way to prove this is ridiculous because we do not have a sample of the Serpent DNA. It is possible their evolution was so close to ours that nature sees them as two very different races instead of species. It is very possible they were close enough to reproduce. We do not know for sure they did, even though the Bible does indicate this - or that they at least had sex, but I see no reason to proclaim the idea is ridiculous. Either way it does not conflict with anything in my book.

In addition we find an interesting quote from the Book of Jasher, which is mentioned in the Bible as an authoritative scripture used in ancient times. It says:

...and the sons of men in those days took from the cattle of the earth, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and taught the mixture of animals of one species with the other, in order therewith to provoke the Lord; and God saw the whole earth and it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon earth, all men and all animals.

Jasher 4:18

It is interesting that this scripture was written around 3000 years ago and mentions something that only today is modern technology approaching.

If this scripture is correct then even if they were two species it is possible that there could have been a "mixture."

And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

Joshua10:13

And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son: (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)

II Samuel 1:17 -18