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

by David Turell , Saturday, September 10, 2016, 16:35 (2997 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: 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.
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> dhw: Please explain what sort of intervention you are talking about. Are you saying that humans and apes do not have common ancestry, and humans were specially created? And do you think other species also needed your God's personal intervention to teach them how to communicate in their unique ways, or do you think they worked it out for themselves? We mustn't forget that according to you, God even had to intervene to teach the weaverbird how to build its nest (or he preprogrammed it for the first cells to pass on). Degree versus kind makes no difference if - as you have consistently argued - every innovation and natural wonder required your God's preprogramming or intervention. So why single out human language if intervention is all you're concerned with?-Humans and apes did descend from the same animals. The intervention is very obvious. Rapid Human development of a different anatomic skeletal posture, of a different vocal anatomy, of a large brain with self-aware consciousness are all parts of the evidence. We developed language tamed fire and control the whole of Earth. Apes are still apes little changed over six-eight million years. Is the evolution of humans purely chance? Not in my eyes.