Snakes with hind legs lasted 70 million years

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It’s kind of obvious that snakes and lizards are related . Snakes have lost some skull bones and their skull is more flexible because the bones able to move apart Here’s a blue tongued skink to compare
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There's nothing written in Genesis specifying when it happened.

No, but we do have a good estimate as when it did happen based upon the genealogical records and how long the people mentioned in those genealogies lived. That is how historian Bishop James Ussher concluded how old the earth is.
 
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No, but we do have a good estimate as when it did happen based upon the genealogical records and how long the people mentioned in those genealogies lived. That is how historian Bishop James Ussher concluded how old the earth is.

There are many problems with that chronology, such as the gap between Genesis 1 and 2.
 
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There is a potential gap that could include a vast amount of time. And that is just one theory.

I see nothing in the text that suggests that at all.
 
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Can you explain the gap?
. Personally I don’t accept anything in Genesis as an actual history . Neither does my church . There’s no evidence for an earth less than 4.5 billion years old.
 
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. Personally I don’t accept anything in Genesis as an actual history . Neither does my church . There’s no evidence for an earth less than 4.5 billion years old.

Original sin...
The shared sinful condition of all humanity. This Christian doctrine is drawn from the Pauline writings, such as Rom 5:12-19 and 1 Cor 15:21-22, which suggest that humanity shares by nature in the fall of Adam described in Gn 3. Paul likewise urges that the consequences for humanity of Adam's fall are to be reversed through saving participation in Christ's victory over sin and death.

The Episcopal Church may disagree with you. They seem to present Genesis as literal. I can't speak for your local church.

Are you saying the fall never happened? No garden? No deception? No act of disobedience? No fig leaf?

Concerning evidence....some scientist have dated rocks to be more than 65+ MY old. From these rocks they have removed fossilized dinosaur bones. Because they have placed a date on the rocks they tell us the fossilized dinosaur bones are as old as the rocks. Then a problem arose inwhich they, and you, seem to be having a great deal of trouble with but won't admit it. They find dinosaur biomaterial contained with in the fossilized bones...and it's still soft. Degraded but still original material. If the earth is as old as claimed, how did the material survive? Not decay away or fossilize? It pretty much call into question the dating techniques and the old age of the earth. But you said there’s no evidence for an earth less than 4.5 billion years old.....Yes there is.
 
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I have no idea what it is they think they see that suggests a gap but all I know is when I read the Bible, the text shows no such thing.

The gap is typically placed in Gen 1:2..... The earth was without form and void,....was is changed to "became". This allows for an Old Earth. I've never heard of anyone trying to insert the long time frame between Gen 2 and 3. I hope Strathos replies and presents their opinion as to why there is a gap there.
 
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The gap is typically placed in Gen 1:2..... The earth was without form and void,....was is changed to "became". This allows for an Old Earth. I've never heard of anyone trying to insert the long time frame between Gen 2 and 3. I hope Strathos replies and presents their opinion as to why there is a gap there.


But that is based on the theories of those who attempt to reconcile the doctrines of Uniformitarianism with the scriptures but we do not get that from the text itself.
 
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