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

by David Turell , Sunday, September 11, 2016, 15:10 (2993 days ago) @ dhw


> I doubt if any of us would dispute the astonishing range and scale of human abilities. In my previous post, I tried to show how humans have developed various inherited forms of animal behaviour beyond all recognition. ...... why single out human language or even human anatomy as “part of the evidence”? EVERY complexity is part of the evidence for you.-Your last sentence is correct. Evidence for God is not one item or fact. It is the overall picture which encompasses all of the complexity seen in life, including the miracle of life itself.
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> May I make a tentative suggestion? Could it be that your insistence on “difference in kind, not degree” has nothing to do with proving that humans are the product of intervention and are not the product of chance, but has everything to do with your theory that God created life in order to produce humans?... Humans must have been the purpose from the very beginning, your God has always maintained control, and any other hypothesis fails to match your own personal interpretation of his mind and modus operandi. Just a tentative suggestion to explain why you are so keen to separate one intervention from all the others.-Your point fits my thinking completely. 'Different in kind' is just one piece of evidence, but it is a major example of how the process of evolution created the most amazing organism of all the rest. I suggest you read the book by James Le Fanu, Why Us?, 2010, who is a parallel thinker to me, marshalling an enormous amount of anatomic and neurologic evidence of our difference from all the rest. A major point of his. Our giant brain is really very old compared to its current use in the past 25,000 years. Are we to believe that chance evolution put it together so early to just see it sit there without expression of its function until hundreds of thousand of years later? If the evolutionary process is thought to be adaptations to immediate stresses, our brain does not fit the pattern in any way.