Adam was born how many years ago?

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You could say that about many things. How about religion? Religion isn’t passed via our genes. Are you going to say evolution is false because there are 2000 religions in the world? Human beings can;t swim or ride bikes. That is learned.
Communication is a specific trait, riding bikes is not; all specific traits evolve with the species according to evolution. Specific traits are social, biological, physical traits associated with the species and so when a species evolves, the traits also change and communication is one of the major traits in every species.

Again, how was the transition from our ancestral grunts to words with meaning(s) and arranging those words to give meaningful expressions; meaningful expression(s) not to the one expressing but to the other person(s), which means that at any given moment, at least two persons must have had the understanding of those words.

Is research being done? Please stop wasting time, it is hopeless.
 
Language is LEARNED
How? And specifically in the case of our ancestor, from who did they learn?
But our brains EVOLVE to support language.
When? As if evolution knows where to stop because it understands something better will take over.
If there’s a specific trait that is acquired through LEARNING then evolution fails because it proposes traits from mutations and natural selection only.
Why is this so hard for you? Clearly a child learns language from his parents and society
So please explain how this all invalidates the most accepted and proven biological theory in history?
So a brain capacity and other faculties of speech evolved, now i have to learn a language?! If i don’t learn evolution is wasted. Why don’t you add this aspect to your theory the fact that it understands what lies ahead.
 
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Language is learned from parents and interaction with society. Do you really disagree with this? Are you really implying that the ability to communicate is not an evolutionary advantage?
Perfect, i agree but how and from who did our ancestor learn a language? why?

Ability to speak means nothing if you cannot speak.
 
You seem to be implying that limited, partial communication has no benefit.
Facial expressions alone convey meaning.
Why do you refuse to believe that language improved over time, from facial expressions, to hand motions and body language, to grunts, to vocal inflection, and so forth?
There’s no facial expression or signs for “i ate an orange last week” or “i mate his nephew’s teacher’s son”
The scholarly articles you seem to be basing your original post on discuss the above and how we can’t use the fossil record to figure out what the above process was. Nor are there corresponding animals with similar developed language where we can do experiments.
But none of these articles imply evolution didn’t occur or is somehow ‘false’ because we don’t as of yet understand the exact process.
Once you get anything from those scholarly articles let me know but what we know is that we learn a language from knowledgeable sources and we can only fall back to a common knowledgeable source and not a common ancestor.

Why does anyone have to study the origin of language if language doesn’t shutter their world view?
There are reasons why language did not just start the way you suppose it started.
 
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Apparently it’s possible to trace Adam’s offspring to Jesus in a way that we can discover that Adam was created in about 6000-4000 B.C.

The problem is that we know that humanity has existed for much longer than that.
Earth year is a man’s concept for the experience of passage of time. Things before man and after man belongs to eternity and not earth years as experienced by man.

Humanity before Adam is debatable.
 
@Migel2,
Perhaps the genealogies are incomplete. Maybe the genealogies only shows the important people. I don’t know.
That’s easy to check and find solid evidence to back. The number of years the Israelites were in Egypt is counted by births and fathership. However, no father only has their child on the very last day they live. The usually have them young. So, if you add up the years every father lived in the Genealogy in Egypt it should come out to longer than their stay in Egypt. It doesn’t.

The geneaologies, when cross compared with other ancient copies, occasionally show that certain figures are in some ancient biblical texts and not others. So, the total genealogy has almost certainly been truncated where grandsfathers, or even great grandfathers, are sometimes called “fathers.”

Not to mention, that calendars and the idea of “year” changes throughout history. In the pre-flood era, many peoples ages were accounted to decimal years; eg: 900 years would be 90 years old and 0 months. There are comparison passages in the flood account which have similar calendar differences saying things that come out in English translation as 400 days instead of 40 days. The point is that decimal numbers were not invented until after Christ died, and that people understood that if a period was longer than expected that it could refer to a decimal fraction of that time period.

Remember this one thing, bretheren, that to the Lord a thousand years is as a day and a day is as a thousand years. 2Peter 3:8. Time periods are collective nouns in ancient Greek, and the new testament. To specify something was actually a “day” you had to use an intensifier, like “this very [same] day.” The same is true of other words, such as rock “Petros”, “Petra”, etc. to talk about a specific single rock, you had to use intensifiers like “upon this [very same] rock, I will build my church.” Otherwise, it could be read as any rock you want it to be. The same is true of time periods. They often have different significance in prophecy and history than discreet and well known periods of time.

On the first day there was light … (but remember brothers, with the Lord… )

Stick with Peter, and he’ll guide you around the biggest pitfalls of OT genealogies. 🙂
 
AND…facial expressions DEVELOPED over time into sign language such that those phrases CAN be conveyed through non-verbal communication. I still don’t have the faintest idea how any of this invalidates evolution in the slightest.
There’s no facial expression for “i ate an orange two weeks ago” and there’re no signs for “my friend’s cousin’s daughter”. See, language has rules; rules about relations and word connectors and time (past present and future) which give further meaning.
There’s absolutely no evidence for what you are saying.

Again;
  1. Rules require words with meaning(s) and words with meaning(s) require rules.
  2. Words with meaning(s) require teaching/learning and teaching/learning requires words with meaning(s)
These are only a few levels of complexity that shows that a language didn’t start the way you suppose it did.
I agree with this. So now explain how this invalidates evolution. I have no idea what your point is.
The common knowledgeable source is aka God, not a Neanderthal or its cousin.
 
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1.If we get information from the environment, what’s the need of moving from grunts with meaning(s), to sign(s) with the same meaning to words with the same meaning?
If grunts have meaning(s), then it is a language and if signs have meaning(s), it becomes a language- why the shift from one to another and finally to words?
  1. Deaf people today don’t develop a language or sign language not that they don’t get information from the environment but because they don’t get to learn a language which they can use to express the information.
    This tells you that whereas information is outside the mind, it is a language inside the mind.
  2. A child/person who doesn’t learn a language can not develop one even when they interact with the environment whole their life because of the highlighted part above.
I can use sign language right now to exactly present those phrases.
Thanks to an elaborate sign language which has recently been developed. Its development was on the basis of established normal language- a privilege that our ancestor did not have.
 
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Thing is - jan10000 can neither prove nor disprove the origin of languages…
 
All you’ve done is propose an alternative interpretation of the Cosmological Argument. We can discuss that as well - but it doesn’t at all refute evolution.
To me, it is one of many other evidences against evolution.

IMO, Cosmological arguments are not good arguments for or against God and this is because of my view of God. I view God and creation differently.
 
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