Excerpt of his book. Interesting questions regarding the origin of language in humans.
1 posted on
01/29/2006 3:25:30 PM PST by
mlc9852
To: mlc9852
And slowly, over the millennia, we have come to realize that no other species on earth seems able to follow us into this miraculous place. LOL. Uhhh, maybe it's just dawned on a few people, but there's plenty of people that have known this as surely as the rising of the sun for a loooooong time.
2 posted on
01/29/2006 3:55:34 PM PST by
GLDNGUN
To: mlc9852
Very detailed and thought provoking. Thanks.
4 posted on
01/29/2006 3:56:57 PM PST by
Emmalein
(Try not to let your mind wander...It is too small and fragile to be out by itself.)
To: mlc9852
What would be the characteristics of a nonhuman language that would allow us instantly to recognize it as a languagelike form of communication even if it were quite alien with respect to all human languages? When 10s of thousands of birds in a flock all take off at the same time, don't bump into each other, and arrange themselves neatly, there has to be some sort of communication going on.
ML/NJ
6 posted on
01/29/2006 4:19:19 PM PST by
ml/nj
To: mlc9852
Third convolution on the left. This development will atrophy from now on as MP3, iPod, and MTV take over the symbolization function in society.
9 posted on
01/29/2006 5:02:57 PM PST by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: PatrickHenry; Virginia-American
10 posted on
01/29/2006 5:08:19 PM PST by
phantomworker
(Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool...and don't accuse me of your imagination.)
To: mlc9852
A veritable tidal wave of spurious evidence of evolution.
Darwinists are in a panic, trying to keep their weak and fragile theory safe behind a door they keep sealed up by papering it over with threadbare conjectures presented as proof.
Every day, ten new articles. Ten new jokes.
21 posted on
01/29/2006 8:41:08 PM PST by
JCEccles
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