This is an immediate error in logic, for it does not follow from observable reality; for we can see, through the fossil record, that many astonishing creatures existed that are no longer around today; thus, your conclusion is false, fundamentally.
This conclusion is more faulty than it's premise, for it is purely an assumption derived from the previous conjecture, yet it does not follow from it, at all.
The question is malformed, because it is based on the aforementioned faulty premises. --it remains reality, that what existed in the past is not required to exist now. (This ought not seem dubious to anyone.)
This failure to understand the meaning of the first book is caused by ignorance of the last book, for in it, the identity of Satan is spelled out, viz:
"And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." --Revelation 12:9
"And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years," --Revelation 20:2
The old serpent is called the Devil and Satan: those are the names of the red dragon that deceives the whole world. (This is common knowledge to most believers.)
That malformed question is derived from the aforementioned faulty premises.
You failed to realize that the first mention of Satan was, indeed, in Genesis.
Yes, the old serpent, the Devil, up to what he's always been up to, since the beginning, deception.
Yes, that old serpent, Satan, deceiving people into worshiping him--it's his modus operandi.
Yup.
You are wrong, unequivocally: anywhere the serpent is mentioned is referring to the red dragon, Satan, for that is but one of his names, yet his mo remains the same, deception, period.
Religion: << You are wrong, unequivocally:
anywhere the serpent is mentioned is referring to the red dragon, Satan, for that is but one of his names, yet his
mo remains the same, deception, period. >>
Religiot, there must be parts of the Bible that you aren’t familiar with.
Moses held up a bronze snake before the Israelites in the wilderness.
The Bronze Snake
4They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way;
5 they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!”
6 Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.
7 The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
8 The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.”
9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.
Numbers 21: 5-9 NIV
Surely Moses did not mean to honor Satan by putting a bronze snake on a pole, to be seen by everyone in the camp of the Israelites. God would not tell Moses to do such a thing. The scripture specifically says that the snakes were sent by God, so they are not under the Devil's power.
This isn't just a piece of Old Testament trivia, it is referred to in the Gospels.
"Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”
John 3: 14-15 NIV
This is Jesus speaking to Nicodemus, just before John 3:16. Not only does Moses hold up a bronze snake in the wilderness for healing of a plague, Jesus compares himself to the bronze snake. We cannot conclude that a snake or serpent always refers to the devil, it obviously means different things in different passages.