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

by David Turell , Monday, September 12, 2016, 18:06 (2992 days ago) @ dhw

Dhw: …why single out human language or even human anatomy as “part of the evidence”? EVERY complexity is part of the evidence for you.
> DAVID: 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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> So we can forget about “different in kind not degree” if we are only interested in proving the likelihood of God's existence and interventions. - You can forget about it. To me it is a major point of evidence.
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> dhw: Firstly, over and over again, we have agreed that the evolutionary process is NOT adaptations to immediate stresses, since that would not require life forms beyond bacteria. ....In other words, the disagreement is over how the evolutionary process works. Nobody knows, but your theory simply makes no sense to me. All I can see in the history of life is one vast free-for-all, with organisms coming and going in accordance with the vagaries of environmental change. - And what I see in the evolutionary process is a built-in drive to complexity, perhaps triggered by environmental stresses, but not necessarily as evidenced by bacteria survival unchanged and the drive to humans for no obvious reason. This easily explains the h-p bush.