Origin of Language (Origins)

by dhw, Wednesday, April 08, 2015, 12:47 (3515 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: All we know is that it happened rather quickly for all the changes to occur.
dhw: I really don't know what experience you or anyone else has had of how much time it OUGHT to take for the palate and throat etc. to change, and the same applies to every innovation. All we do know is that these things happened. Perhaps you would like to think they happened unnaturally quickly so that you can argue for preprogramming or dabbling, but the IM would solve your time problem anyway - if there is a time problem.-DAVID: So, how fast does the IM work? Another unknown quantity. The evolutionists have theoretical math formulas about fixing a trait in so many generations. Since one human generation is about 20 years, there are only five in 100 years. 15 major changes from apes in 3.5 million years requiring many, many mutations. Enough time?-Of course it's enough time - it happened! (Or maybe the figures are wrong anyway - you never know.) I make the total 175,000 generations. What makes you think 175,000 generations are not long enough for such changes, bearing in mind that a change needs to work straight away if it is to survive? By all means argue that the mechanisms of life and evolution are too complex not to have been designed, but don't try to kid us that you know how long it normally takes for apes to evolve into humans.