The snake and.... Dr. Dolittle?

So, in the last post Adam and Eve realized they were naked.  Let's look a little closer at what was going on.  First of all, if an animal or serpent started talking to you what would you do?  Would you freak out and get all excited?  I mean really.  In Genesis 3:1 (NASB)

And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”

I don't know about you but I wouldn't take it calmly.  Stop and consider for a moment about Eve chatting with the serpent.  I don't think for a moment that she was tripping along and suddenly out of nowhere this serpent started talking.  First of all she would, like most of us, freak out.  I can see her running to Adam and dragging him back all the while chattering about this critter talking to her.

The reason I bring this up is, after reading this, slowly one word at a time in Hebrew, I got to thinking.  Does this mean that Adam and Eve could talk to the animals?  Kind of brings to mind Rex Harrison and Dr. Dolittle. Wouldn't it be cool to talk with animals?  Maybe that's exactly what Adam and Eve could do.  Maybe we will once again be able to do that.

But I digress.

So now this serpent comes along and starts talking with Eve then challenges her with what God said about the fruit of the trees.  I covered paying attention to what God says and not changing it in my last post.  The next thought is what this serpent looks like.  Have you ever considered it?

Did the snake look like this?

OR did the snake look something like this?

One must remember that after God finds out Adam and Eve ate of the fruit (like he didn't already know DUH) he condemned the snake to slither on the ground and eat dust.  Genesis 3:14 (my translation from Hebrew)

And the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this you are cursed of all the beasts and of all living beings of the field. On your belly you shall go and you shall eat dust all the days of your life."

If God is making the snake go on his belly after all this, doesn' that mean that it wasn't on it's belly before that?   Even science shows that snakes used to have legs.  The only part that they don't get right is how long it took for them to lose the legs.  Here is an article from the Discovery channel.  What it does show is that snakes did once have legs.  I would say this supports the Biblical account of God dealing with that darn serpent.

Next... whose fault is it anyway?