Posted AT 10:51 AM EDT on 29/02/08
Humans hard-wired to fear snakes
There may be a good reason why Satan takes the form of a snake in the biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.A new study suggests that people are biologically predisposed to learn quickly to fear snakes - a defensive mechanism probably rooted in evolution.
"Snakes would have been threats that we encountered often and in many areas of the world ...
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