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To: Grig
Grammar, language, intelligence, design?

"The grammar rules Stephanopoulos developed are about what 2-year-olds learn on their own by listening to adults speak, he said."

Or kind of like it just evolved and required no special tinkering or teaching.

Are you an IDer so intent upon seeing something there that you a). didn't read the story you posted or b.) are completely misinterpreting an analogy to fit your preconceived notions?

Or maybe I am just reading into your brief comment to much.

4 posted on 10/19/2006 6:36:13 AM PDT by Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit (War is Peace__Freedom is Slavery__Ignorance is Strength)
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To: Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit

So the grammar rules are "about what 2-year-olds learn on their own by listening to adults speak". Doesn't that two year old require some intelligence to absorb an understanding of such rules? Don't the adults the two year old is around have to have intelligence to speak normally for those rules to get picked up? Yet here we have some bacteria with no innate intelligence conforming to a set of 'grammatical rules'. Doesn't prove anything either way, but I'd say there is good reason for ID'ers to find this interesting.


19 posted on 10/19/2006 7:21:33 AM PDT by Grig
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