How children pick up a language: new review of Wolfe (Humans)

by David Turell , Monday, October 24, 2016, 15:50 (2950 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: It is not just self-consciousness but consciousness itself that is unexplained. Self-consciousness is an extension of consciousness, and I do not put human language in the same category of inexplicability. Once you have enhanced consciousness, it seems to me inevitable that you should need enhanced modes of expression, since all organisms need to communicate what matters to them.

DAVID: I agree, but would include God's actions.

dhw: You include God’s actions in your explanation of every single innovation and natural wonder. That is why there seems little point in isolating human self-consciousness and language, when according to you evolutionary theory explains none of the developments from bacteria to humans. They ALL require your God's planning or intervention.

The only way evolution could have proceeded. Chance doesn't work.