How children pick up a language: denying Chomsky 2 (Humans)

by David Turell , Friday, September 09, 2016, 15:31 (2998 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: Regardless of the physical differences that influence what and how organisms build, teach, interact and communicate, the progression from comparatively simple to enormously complex is clear in all these contexts. Different in degree, different in kind? Why is this so important to you, especially since you believe in common descent? - Because in the pattern of common descent, species appear without short steps, but the changes are not giant. The human leap of difference is giant, so extraordinarily large the leap is a difference in kind, and therefore strongly suggests an intervention.