[gore3000]

This is totally fascinating and has some good points about the electrostatic mind. It certainly is original. So basically you would say that all languages are fairly new say 4-6,000 years old?

[medved]

Possibly more like 3500 years old. Again, my money is on Heinsohn and Sweeney in the questions of chronology.

Spoken languages of the kind we now use are no older than that in my view. Prior to the flood, communication would have been telepathic, although a person using that system could easily have had many of the same kinds of experiences we do.

The human brain is good at rerouting data paths; for instance, blind people "reading" braile with their fingers apparently use many of the same brain areas which sighted people use for vision. A similar rerouting appears to have taken place in going from the antediluvian system to our present system of spoken speech.

[medved]

BTW, I assume you can see what a kicker this one would be for an evolutionist to try to explain?

[cebadams]

Does the theory of evolution apply to language? Is there any information explaning how a language develops or the length of time it takes to even be called a language?

Interesting -- but I don't know that much about language development.