Exactly. Why would God give them language skills? So they could obey human commands? I don't see that happening for a lot of rats.
If animals really had been "designed," the designer would have left out useless stuff like an ability for language. Why give that to rats? How is that part of God's plan?
Creationists won't say. They can't say. They just baldly assert that this is evidence against evolution, even though it doesn't fit into any other theoretical framework.
Several things here
(aside from the fact that this is an old thread)
1: You aren't God, so where do you get off supposing how He would make things?
2: Man was given domain over all things on this planet. It stands to reason that this means that all animals recognize us as their immediate masters. And what servant doesn't know the voice of his master?
3: Just because you haven't heard a response about your suppositions, doesn't mean noone is talking. It may mean you aren't asking the right people.
4: According to evolution, such a "useless" mechanism in rats (been around for eons before language) should be gone by now.