“All snakes came from a single kind on the Ark” asserts Robert, with no attempt whatsoever to give a justification for this pronouncement, even in the form of a citation of a bible verse or verses. But Since there is no reference to snakes in the Noah narrative I guess you must be taking it that the serpent in the Garden of Eve narrative would have to have been the ancestor of all subsequent snakes (perhaps parthogenically since it is referred to as THE serpent as though it existed alone without a mate). What was its means of locomotion BEFORE God cursed it and it had to travel on its belly, do you think? The ancestors of snakes did indeed have legs, as can be seen from vestigial features in their anatomy, but losing them was not a punishment but an evolutionary advantageous development, just as it was for the slowworms, who separately underwent a similar evolution, although not implicated in the serpent’s supposed sin. Or do you want to lump slowworms in the same “kind” as snakes, and claim they are also this serpent’s descendants, rather than being lizards, as all zoologists would assert? BTW, neither snakes nor slow worms actually eat dust, though the equally legless, indeed boneless, earthworms do, very usefully for planetwide ecology. It would make a lot more sense, come to think of it, for you biblical literalists to argue that the serpent in the Eden narrative was actually an earthworm. 😁 Admittedly they are not given to biting humans on the heel.