Well to start I think most people know about the snake in the bible.
I do not want to discus talking snakes or a punished snake.,
Anyone who knows nothing about the snakes Fossil record I am sorry but I am not going to explain it.
This leads me to think that the man that wrote this small part of text had been influenced by science and/or a fossil record.
A past civilization that got to the point in science where they understood the fossil record as well as we do today,.and,....... they had been reduced to nothing after the great flood,. Then wrote about it in a vary Bias way. It would be a new start with out science to influence free thinking. a code of laws and warning to help us prepare for the next end of days. History proves to us that many great leaders of people are anything but nice.
I must stress that finding such proof of a past civilization would be impossible if it had all been tossed under the ocean.The time it takes the Ocean to decay things is frightfully fast. so after 4000? 6000? or more years would surly have eaten all evidence.
There is roads under the Ocean, its strange but, it seems only stone and earth can survive the test of time. And this proves nothing in terms of advanced people. whats your car look like after 5 years? old? rusty?
I only write this here in reason that I do think we had a past civilization that was advanced and it predates the bible. Everything in life has a history of evolution, animals , stars , Guns , swords , shoe's, the computer you are using,. It dont mater what it is, it has a common descent,.
But there is only one thing we know of that has no common descent, Our early technology. It simply is, with no past to explain it, I dont think we got visited by ancient astronauts I feel this is an insult to humans, we are much greater then that,.
thanks for reading,.