I'm no expert but it is my supposition that the animals could all talk back then. Eve did not seem to be at all surprised that the snake spoke.
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Just another problem with the Genesis fairy tale. It does make it difficult to try and explain all these little holes in the story, doesn't it.
Well, if you believe the Bible to be absolute literal truth, that would make sense... Luckily, I don't.
This might be difficult for you, so we'll walk through it slowly. When was the last time that you saw an animal talk. Was it on a cartoon? Or the movie Babe? Or the Movie "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"? How do you react to seeing an animal talk? Is it something like, "Nice special effects!" This is because you know that animals do not talk but sometimes fiction writers make animals talk in their works of fiction. It sometimes makes for a better story. Therefore, anything you read or see with talking animals is fiction; make-believe; a parable; not literally true.
Even if you give some reverence to the story, what's wrong with viewing it on a symbolic level, or accepting it as an attempt by preliterate people to describe their origin in a mystical context, which retains its mystical flavor but was never meant to be viewed as a history piece?
Cinderella wasn't too surprised to have herself addressed by a thrush.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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