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The truth is that neither cristians believe in a talking snake nor evolutionists believe in humans coming from monkeys. That's just a straw man falacy. Cristians believe that's a metaphor and evolutionists believe they have common ancestors.
I assure you that many Christians do believe the snake really talked.
Whatever Christians you are personally familiar with don't comprise the entirety or even the majority of the Christian population of the world.
It is not an ordinary talking snake, it is a snake which was enabled to talk by God or Satan to transmit a message or something. Everything is very "spiritual" in this stories as seen by a believer.
It is not a "common reality" it is an "elevated reality, when God still walked the Earth".
Nobody believes that an ordinary snake could talk. But into a snake disguised Satan, could talk eloquently.
I cannot recall any instance of a claim in that format turning out to be correct.
In the context of the Bible, without later interpretation, neither God nor Satan was directly involved with the snake.