Did Burrowing Blindsnakes Raft Across the Oceans? - http://www.icr.org/article/5345
Mechanics of spitting. (Certainly mindless processes could have come up with this one)
Venom can be ejected otherwise than by a bite, as in the so-called spitting cobras of the genera Naja and Hemachatus. Some of these deadly snakes, when irritated, are capable of shooting venom from the mouth, at a distance of 4 to 8 feet. These snakes' fangs have been modified for the purposes of spitting: inside the fangs of a spitting cobra is a channel which makes a ninety degree bend to the lower front of the fang. When the snake is threatened the muscles of the venom gland squeeze the venom sac and as a result venom is projected forward. Spitters may spit thirty or forty times in succession, and even then the snake is still able to deliver a fatal bite. ( More research is needed to determine the selective pressures that have armed snakes in this way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_venom.) What Wiki means is, more fictional material must be invented to explaine another evolutionary fantasy.

Spitting is a defensive reaction only. The snake tends to aim for the eyes [took millions of years to hit the target] of a perceived threat; a direct hit can cause temporary shock and blindness through severe inflammation of the cornea and conjunctiva. While there are no serious results if the venom is washed away at once with plenty of water, the blindness caused by a successful spit can become permanent if left untreated. Contact with the skin is not in itself dangerous, but open wounds may become envenomated.

World's Most Venomous Snakes - http://www.avru.org/general/general_mostvenom. html. How did the process of evolution produce this varity of toxic creatures.

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