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What is Chomsky's evidence? Human vanity underlies a lot of creationism, and is blown apart as soon as you start to analyse the language of other species. Language evolves according to need. All species communicate only as much as is required for their continued existence, apart from dogs, dolphins, and other social animals (i.e most familiar mammals) that enjoy playing and teasing each other. Homo sapiens is perhaps unique in using language to promulgate irrational hatred, but you'd have to consult a religious or political professional to find out why. It baffles me, and it's nothing to be proud of.
A very interesting approach. Apparently anyone who makes a creationist guess or unsubstantiated statement isd allowed to get away with it, in your opinion, but anyone who thinks there might be a rational explanation for a phenomenon is challenged to prove it instantly. If he can't, the entire world of science is wrong. Get a life, and don't waste mine.
the materialist dogmatic belief system in science
Gesture has the advantage over vocalization that it allows one to communicate without informing everyone present...
Let me throw a straw man argument at these fools. I know - I'll assert that science is wrong because some famous guy has supposedly claimed human language evolved from chimp gestures.No. He may have proposed it as a possible route for human language to evolve, though I doubt the link to Chomsky as the idea must have been floating around long before him. (It would also have come from a common ancestor of ours with chimps and not from chimps, but that's an unimportant point.) The other proposed origin which I'm sure Chomsky prefers is that human language came out of vocalisations which were already there in one of our ancestors, vocalisations which evolved after we split away from the path that led to chimps. There was plently of room for making different sounds such that many distinct words could be produced, and the throat could then have evolved to make the sounds clearer, survival of the fittest selecting for those with a better geometry for creating clear sounds. The difficulties have been exaggerated by those who have an unscientific agenda - even a chimp can make a wide range of vocalisations and it would be easy to make a language out of them if that species had sufficient wit to do so.
Quotethe materialist dogmatic belief system in science Dogma and belief are the antithesis of science. If you stopped making selfcontradictory assertions about a subject of which you apparently know nothing, and started listening and thinking for yourself instead of quoting unsubstantiated garbage, you might learn something, just as we scientists do.
"The human will to believe is inexhaustible " .
Quote"The human will to believe is inexhaustible " .Crap. I stopped believing when I was 11. There is indeed an inexhaustible supply of believers, but that isn't the same thing at all.
Gesture has the advantage over vocalization that it allows one to communicate without informing everyone present, e.g. ...
It is goose migration time, and one has to wonder why the birds are so vocal.
The V formation greatly boosts the efficiency and range of flying birds, particularly over long migratory routes. All the birds except the first fly in the upwash from the wingtip vortices of the bird ahead. The upwash assists each bird in supporting its own weight in flight, in the same way a glider can climb or maintain height indefinitely in rising air. In a V formation of 25 members, each bird can achieve a reduction of induced drag by up to 65% and as a result increase their range by 71%. The birds flying at the tips and at the front are rotated in a timely cyclical fashion to spread flight fatigue equally among the flock members.
Don, I can't but helping noticing that every thread you begin, or are involved in, regardless of who participates in it, ends up embroiled in the same argument - materialism. It doesn't matter if the topic starts out with evolution, or consciousness, or the origin of human language, it always goes the same way. You aren't genuinely interested in discussing any of these topics. You don't care about what language is, what it does, or how it changed over time, or how it is different or similar in human groups or animals. Every topic is just bait for your religious, anti-Western civilization diatribe.
Leave it to Don Of the Gaps to use words to deny the existence of language.