Origin of Language

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: No, a Transition from Non-Human to Human is Not Possible · Creation vs. Evolution: Origin of Language · New blog on the kid: Palaeolithic Post-Flood or 2957 to 2607 BC, Language, Yes

If we take the Genesis 2 account, as I do and more importantly as the Church has done for 20 CC., as a closeup on what happens on day 6 in the Genesis 1 account, it pretty clearly follows Adam and Eve were created adult and fully able to understand God speaking and to speak.

Genesis 1

26 And he said:

Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.

27 And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them, saying:

Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth. 29 And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat: 30 And to all beasts of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to all that move upon the earth, and wherein there is life, that they may have to feed upon.

And it was so done. 31 And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.

Genesis 2

15 And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.

16 And he commanded him, saying:

Of every tree of paradise thou shalt eat: 17 But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.

18 And the Lord God said:

It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himself.

19 And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name. 20 And Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls of the air, and all the cattle of the field: but for Adam there was not found a helper like himself.

21 Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it. 22 And the Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman: and brought her to Adam. 23 And Adam said:

This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. 24 Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.

25 And they were both naked: to wit, Adam and his wife: and were not ashamed.

The other account is very much less clear:

npr : When Did Human Speech Evolve?
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013 1:43 PM ET By Barbara J. King
https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/09/05/219236801/when-did-human-speech-evolve

No precise day or year is given:

By contrast, the timing for the origin of speech is hotly debated — unsurprisingly, given the challenges recounted above. Dates suggested range between two million and 50,000 years ago. That's a huge span and a clear motivator for more research.

And it is also silent on how language began. Sure, neurological precisions are given, but grammatical ones aren't:

Uomini and Meyer's approach — building on earlier formulations, such those presented in an influential 1991 paper by Patricia Greenfield — was to measure patterns of brain activation in modern people as they demonstrated both linguistic and technological skills, which share what is called "the need for structured and hierarchical action plans." The authors decided to seek "direct evidence that both skills draw on common brain areas or result in common brain activation patterns."

This led the researchers to conclude that speech was there when toolmaking was, pushing for the earlier limit.

Now, neither this type of toolmaking nor language is observed in irrational animals. There are two possibilities:

• the dates are way off, Biblical chronology or sth resembling it is correct;
• or God's image walked on earth nearly 2 million years ago.

This latter possibility breaks down into two in its turn:

• Adam lived c. 1.75 to 2 M years ago, and Genesis 3 is not history
• or Adam was not the first image of God.

Both of them destroy Christianity if true, and so, if Christianity is true, it destroys both of them, and therefore Deep Time.

Let me suggest, it is Deep Time and Evolution that should go. You see, the Evolutionary scenario has drained research money for decades, and on this topic, it does not look like anything like progressing.

Can we call a sham a sham, and the Emperor's New Clothes "naked"?

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5.VII.2024

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