Quote:But, dude, you don't see the implication? A snake is no longer a snake if it has legs.


There is a fossil record that shows that this species is in an intermediary stage of evolution...


There was a trait within that species that was expressed as legs, that species is no longer around, and we now have snakes and salamanders...


It's kind of a big deal moving from no legs to legs, now imagine hundreds of millions of years, and you can extrapolate from there... At least most scientists do.

 

It always has been and still is part of the reptile family, with or without legs biologically there isn't much difference between snakes and lizards. Evolution in a species is perfectly reasonable and observable, some reptiles grow legs, some reptiles evolve without legs and slither, some reptiles can hold their breath longer as they hunt in the water, but they're still reptiles. It's when we make the mental leap into a reptile no longer being a reptile but a mammal or some other species that we go off into a guessing game. For evolution to happen on the progressive scale that single celled evolution teaches we have to believe that species evolve into different species at some point, there is just simply no evidence of that. 

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