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Gmajor:
You could do with a bit of education yourself.
Snakes Technically don't hibernate.
Also, how long do you think an Ice Age lasts? A few months?

MrBrownJay1:
educate yourself on HIBERNATION... unless you believe that all snakes die in the winter and miraculously appear from the sky in the summer.

larryUG:
Please educate me why the snakes that can hibernate in winter cannot survive in Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland. They could as well hibernate there. see eh winter temperature is different from Temperate regions, and these temperate regions have a less colder temperature than the ICE age temperatures. Snakes cant survive in Antarctica no matter how much they ''hibernate".

However, Snakes do not Hibernate. they only become less active during winter, hence they lower their body metabolism.

MrBrownJay1:
sadly, snake DO hibernate in the winter... its called BRUMATION.
glad i could educate you too, thank me later!

MrBrownJay1:
sadly, snake DO hibernate in the winter... its called BRUMATION.
glad i could educate you too, thank me later!

Gmajor:
You obviously didn't see that I wrote technically in my post.
Brumation is similar to but not the same thing as hibernation.

You've also not answered how snakes survived extreme cold for thousands of years.

Tocynone:
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/04/us/life-on-earth-wiped-out-2-billion-years-scn-trnd/index.html?no-st=9999999999

MrBrownJay1:
i am here to educate... many of our brothas/sistas dont understand big words so i have to give it them in a form that they will comprehend.... Brumation is exactly the same "concept" as hibernation (but most people have never heard the word BRUMATION). so as you can see from my earlier post, i asked the poster to get acquainted with hibernation in order to understand how some animals survive in the winter.



do i have to also point it out to you too?!?!? there are sea/marine snakes which easily adapts and crawl on land (even today), thus snakes evolved from sea to land... unless you also believe that the ice age froze the oceans, lol! here for your education of the day (thank me later):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAe69AlIvR4

chukemmang:
According to numerous scientific accounts, our planet has experienced series of ice ages. Ice Ages are time periods when the entire surface of our planet was covered with ice, leaving the entire planet extremely cold.

It might be understandable how some warm blooded animals might somehow survive an ice age but it will definitely be impossible for cold blooded animals (reptile's) like snakes to survive.

In the present world we live in today, countries like Greenland and Ireland do not have snakes because they are very cold. So how on earth did snakes survive the ice age's?

I hate snakes, I don't know why God created them, I don't know why God still allowed them exist even though it was impossible for them to have survived through time.

Ekemeze:
Nice one Op.

that was some critical thinking. but trust me scientist will surely manoeuvre through your question and may likely ended up confusing you the more. Avoid atheists on nairaland, they won't answer your questions without insulting you and also make u feel less of a human. FLEE!! There are toxic.


It's safe and better to believe that there's a creator. HE made all things, good or bad for reason(s).

Afterall, you will lose absolutely nothing at the end of the day if u discover that there was no creator, but imagine meeting someone after death, and he claim to be your maker, meanwhile u didn't believe in his existence when you were alive. Lol.

No atheist should quote me.

GOD'S ALIVE!

xxxtedyxxx:
You can start believing superman and spidermsn real bro.


las las, we go dey alright.

michlins:
seriously. Imagine dying as a Christian and you realize that Buhda is the one true God and you didn't worship him when you were alive

xxxtedyxxx:
It's so sad people like you still believe in a story book that depicts snakes as " talking reptiles"

Vyzz:
One of the loopholes in science....


I thought people say God doesn't exist since Bible has loopholes.....



History is so raggy that alot of what we believe now are just compiled lies

Ekemeze:
Do you have a problem puting words together? I said no atheist should quote,

My comment was directed to the op,

If you are intelligent enough(as most of you always claim here), you wouldn't quote me.

I serve a living God. proudly a Christian. Do You have a problem?

what else are you gonna say? if not to start "narrating the crimes of christians". same old and repetitive boring lines.

Christians don't play victim. I see no anger in my initial comment either, I was stating the obvious to the op.

Xavfra:
Why do you Christians play victims always....

You're angry that an atheist insults you, but your Bible curses atheists.....promises them hell and all bullshit it says......


This Pascal Wager's principle ain't totally correct ....

What if the god you're worshipping is the wrong god?


You claim that scientists will dodge it and leave you confused, what's the difference between them.and Christians who say that God works in mysterious ways...

BluntTheApostle:
Ice Age does not mean that the entire planet would be covered with ice. There will still be warmer regions, although not for many stretches. Cold blooded animals always had refugia in warmer regions of the planet.



Evolution can explain. What our ancestors survived millions of years ago may kill us today. Study natural selection to better understand my point.



Like I wrote earlier, Ice Age does not mean the whole planet will be covered with ice.



Snakes are actually beautiful creatures.

chukemmang:
I'm very sure an ice age won't be an ice age or make any sense if it only occurs in the regions that always see snow and winter normally.

An ice age will be an ice age when region that never experience winter nor snow, get covered by high inches of snow. For instance Africa, South America, Australia etc.

Even if it won't be a totality, whatever warm lands left will be like 1% , which is inconsiderable.

Also remember that during the ice ages, there is little or no sunshine as dust and debris from the impact of asteroids that hit the Earth surface and caused the cataclysm has blotted out the Sun.

In a matter of days of no sunshine, even the 1% areas not covered by snow should have very low temperatures which will not support the survival of such cold blooded animals.

To each his own. I don't know how any human can like or stand the sight of such horrible creatures.

BluntTheApostle:
Bro, I am sharing an image of how the earth looked during a glacial maximum, a period when ice sheets were at their greatest extent.

Look at the image, and you will see a lot of grasslands in Africa, which shows that a large swarthe of African lands was still habitable even during a glacial maximum. These regions served as refugia for many cold blooded animals.

Many countries became inhabitable, but not many portions of Africa.

The worst Ice Age Africa ever had was long before dinosaurs appeared. It would interest you to know that during the most recent glacial maximum, man already existed and witnessed it, however in a different form.

phemmyfour:
Snake is a lovely creature created by God to balance the food chain. Without snakes, their predators that depend on it for food will go hungry and the prey population that snakes feed on will increase

ednut1:
"Maintaining a high level of biodiversity is important to all life on Earth, including humans, and snakes are an important part of that biodiversity. ... Without them the numbers of prey species would increase to unnatural levels and the predators that eat snakes struggle to find food"

the world today doesn't have a uniform weather so why would it be same during Ice age there is no documented history of ice age in most of Africa from paintings and objects found. so snakes go surely dey

MrBrownJay1:
do i really have to point it out to you?! Ireland, Iceland and Greenland are ISLANDS which have NO NATIVE species of snakes., and the only snakes you would find there is the ones that have been imported. whats next?! asking why there are no polar bears in Nigeria?

chukemmang:
And the micro continent of Britain is not an island?

MrBrownJay1:
are you really asking me why does Britain have native species of snakes while Ireland does not (since they are both islands)?!?!?!?! really?!?!?!?!?!
how long do i have to educate you on the subject bro?! are you really that clueless about geography?!

ok let me try to explain this one to you (as if you were a 5yr old):
Ireland has always been an island even before the ice age and was too cold an environment for snake to strive in.... on the other hand, Britain became an island only 8000 years ago when the seal level rose. before that, Britain was part of mainland Europe where snakes were everywhere as native species. so when Britain separated from Europe and became an island, the native species of snakes that were already in Britain, continued being a native species of this new island.

thank me later for the education...

chukemmang:
Obviously you can never ever compare a glacial maximum to an ice age. There is certainly no comparison between the two. If there was any comparison, then an ice age will be called a glacial maximum.

Now I'm glad you made reference to the glacial maximum and an image of the Earth with half of Africa covered in snow.

Now I mentioned earlier that an ice age won't be an ice age, if ice only covered the normal areas of the globe that usually experience winter. I will further say that an ice age won't be an ice age if only the areas that experience ice in a glacial maximum normally, gets to be covered in ice.

With all that being said, one of the monumental evidences of ice age on the globe is the Sphinx. Archeologists have studied and observed that the base of the Sphinx was eroded by years of flowing water.

Now the Sphinx is located in the plains of Giza, at the complex where the great Pyramids of Egypt are located. That region is an arid region or better still a desert. Now notice that in your glacial maximum, Egypt and most of north Africa were not covered in ice.

Judging from the observation at the base of the Sphinx, the erosion was as a result of flowing water but that region is a desert. So the only explanation was that the flowing water which eroded the base of the Sphinx, resulted from flowing water at the end of ice ages, when the ice that covered the deserts of north Africa began to melt.

Now from your glacial maximum, you saw north Africa had no ice. While from the evidence of the Sphinx, north Africa was covered in ice. So if north Africa was covered in ice, I'm sure there was no part of the globe that wasn't buried in ice.

BluntTheApostle:
Bro, you are making me laugh hard.

Glacial maximums happen at intervals within an Ice Age, and are the most severe period during the Ice Age.

If Africa was still largely habitable during that particular glacial maximum, then you should know that Ice Age does not mean that the whole Earth would be covered.

Supposing I go with your argument that the Earth was once covered by ice, how then did life resurface in such a short time between the last Ice Age? From prokaryotes? That is very impossible, because you wouldn't be able to account for why man has reached this stage of our evolution.

Elimon:
Someone's important peppersoup meat should have not survived?Haba na
Do u know for many years human ancestors survived on eating creeps...including snakes