Thursday, January 26, 2006

Evolutionary Flaw of the Day 01/26/06

Today's exposed flaw in Darwin's evolutionary theory is about language. Because I'm very tired right now from working on a project, I am merely going to post an excerpt from the book to start this with:

"...studies of 36 documented cases of children raised without human contact (feral children) suggest that language is learned only from other humans. Apparently, humans do not automatically speak. If this is so, the first humans must have been endowed with a language ability. There is no evidence language evolved."

This is an interesting point, and it delivers a very hard hitting, fatal blow to the illconstructed armor of materialism that Darwin created. Evolutionists like to respond by saying that language had to evolve because other animals can communicate. The fact that other animals communicate is undeniable, but this level of communication is not defined by oral speech or written language. Over countless years, professional trainers have tried to teach apes to understand certain words, as a dog can, and some of these apes even understand written symbols. However, no such thing has been observed in the wild. It is also true that when a trained ape dies, so does the ability to understand speech. Offspring that the monkey produced after the point it learned such traits are not gifted with the same traits. It takes the efforts of another trainer to teach another monkey. There is absolutely no evidence to support the hypothesis that language evolved, and in fact there is a copious amount of evidence to prove that it did not do so.

In addition to the experiment with feral children, there is more proof that language did not evolve. If Darwin was correct and language did evolve over time, that obviously has to mean that the earliest languages were the simplest, just like the animals that supposedly spoke it. Consequentially, as time went on, languages should have grown to be more complex in nature. Ironically, though, the exact opposite can be observed. The most ancient languages (Latin, 200 B.C.; Greek, 800 B.C.; and Vedic Sanskrit, 1500 B.C.) are the ones that are more complex in regards to syntax, case, gender, mood, voice, tense, and verb form. As Walt Brown writes, "The best evidence indicates that languages devolve..." Most linguists even reject the idea that simple language evolves into more complex language. Check back tomorrow for a continuation of this topic, only tomorrow we will focus more on the subtopic of speech.
~Tribal~

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