Too Close For Comfort

An article from 'Creation" magazine Vol. 29 No. 1 Dec 2006 - Feb 2007
By Sean wieland

The old saying, 'two heads are better than one,' doesn't apply in the case of 'We', the two-headed snake. Having two heads on the same body causes major problems in everything from eating to mating. In fact, 'most two-headed snakes don't live more than a few months.' 'We has survived because, unlike some two-headed animals, both mouths are connected to the same stomach.

So, why does We have two heads? It was originally supposed to be twins, but something went terribly wrong. 'Two-headed snakes typically occur in the same way that Siamese twins do. A developing embryo begins to split into identical twins but then stops part way, leaving the twins joined.'

Do We's two heads have any evolutionary significance? Not in the slightest. Even the pro-evolution National Geographic, in a story about another two-headed snake, calls two-headedness, 'anomaly, not evolution.' CMI's Dr Don Batten agrees that such errors 'most likely came about because of a defect during development, rather than inheriting a defective gene from a parent.' As he points out, animals and even humans, can be born with extra toe, fingers, ears and the like. However, whether this is the result of a developmental defect, or is due to a defective gene ( a mutation), 'no new genetic information is involved in making these extras.' No new genetic information means these cases offer no support at all to the idea of evolution.

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