Scared of Snakes?

I'll never understand why humans (of all things) are afraid of snakes. These beautiful creatures can use their tongues to taste a vast array of chemical messages. Little to do with tasting flavours, more to do with reading the environment. If humans could do that – flick a two-forked tongue out, retract and slide it into a niche in the upper palate, and relay a 'chemical story' to the brain – then we would know so much more than what we all pretend to show the world. With an evolved version of a snake's 'tongue reading' technique, we can know when someone is lying, when someone is scared, and when someone intends to be either a friend or foe. No wonder we're scared of snakes, they know the Truth. No wonder centuries of human culture and civilization have associated them with Wisdom. On a side note, it's funny how we're so scared of a species that only attacks when provoked, which is quite contrary to humans who attack just because we feel like it. The snake uses poison to hunt, eat, or defend. Meanwhile, here we are threatening nuclear war on one another, using a whole other brand of poison to threaten the very existence of our own species, and the whole world. Honestly, you can't blame snakes for seeing us as threats. They can 'read' the Truth, remember?