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Is this another reason to believe that man did not evolve from the animal kingdom? LANGUAGE and SPEECH?
BillHill "In God We Trust" March 07, 2009 05:46:03
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Could language have come directly out of some prehuman trait? No. Does it resemble forms of animal communication? No. . . . no ape, despite intensive training, has yet acquired even the rudiments of syntax, and many language acquisitionists insist that syntax is there even at infants' one-word stage.
Not only is there no animal that is capable of achieving anything like human speech, but also there is, at the other end of the scale, no human tribe that does not have a true language.
Not only is there no animal that is capable of achieving anything like human speech, but also there is, at the other end of the scale, no human tribe that does not have a true language.
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No We are monkeys with vocal chords for speech
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Yes This is definitely another good reason to denounce my membership in the animal kingdom
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No We are monkeys with vocal chords for speech
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The complete taxonomic classification of mankind.
Kingdom Animalia
Subkingdom Metazoa
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Tetrapoda
Class Mammalia
Subclass Theria
Infraclass Eutheria
Order Primates
Suborder Anthropoidea
Infraorder Catarrhini
Superfamily Hominoidea
Family Hominidae
Subfamily Homininae
Tribe Hominini
Genus Homo
Species sapiens
Subspecies sapiens
It is rather a beautiful thing, and it's natural. No Imaginary Invisible Sky Wizards involved. Just pure Nature.
We are of the animal kingdom, we communicate, and animals communicate to their kind. Just because another speices does not have HUMAN communication skills does not mean that it does not have speech. Just because our species doesn't speak Dolphin, doesn't mean that WE don't have speech. It is rediculous to hold other speices to that measure when we'd find that measure outrageous were it applied to us.
Bill wants to promote the unfounded and laughable idea that an Invisible Imaginary Sky Wizard made everything, because a Bronze Age scribe wrote a simple story for simple minds. That simple Bronze Age story nolonger applies as it is not valid -and we know it.
I am glad that "...
The complete taxonomic classification of mankind.
Kingdom Animalia
Subkingdom Metazoa
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Tetrapoda
Class Mammalia
Subclass Theria
Infraclass Eutheria
Order Primates
Suborder Anthropoidea
Infraorder Catarrhini
Superfamily Hominoidea
Family Hominidae
Subfamily Homininae
Tribe Hominini
Genus Homo
Species sapiens
Subspecies sapiens
It is rather a beautiful thing, and it's natural. No Imaginary Invisible Sky Wizards involved. Just pure Nature.
We are of the animal kingdom, we communicate, and animals communicate to their kind. Just because another speices does not have HUMAN communication skills does not mean that it does not have speech. Just because our species doesn't speak Dolphin, doesn't mean that WE don't have speech. It is rediculous to hold other speices to that measure when we'd find that measure outrageous were it applied to us.
Bill wants to promote the unfounded and laughable idea that an Invisible Imaginary Sky Wizard made everything, because a Bronze Age scribe wrote a simple story for simple minds. That simple Bronze Age story nolonger applies as it is not valid -and we know it.
I am glad that "<--that guy" made best efforts to educate those who have been brainwashed with middle-eastern mytholgy.
Once, folks thought the Earth was flat, that we could fall off of it, they were genuinely afraid to sail the seas for fear of it. There were folks that defended the superstition with the Babble, quoting from it, and projecting their versions of faux-science to defend the absurd.
Thus, we find ourselves today in conversation with Sky Wizard Creationists, and the reality of Science.
Everyday, Science pushes "Gods" further and further out of the picture... there is little place left for Invisible Imaginary entities to hide.
Reality and Truth will be the Death of all Gods.
Let that light shine, and brightly so.
No We are monkeys with vocal chords for speech
Animals are eukaryotic and are multicellular, which separates them from bacteria and most protists. They are heterotrophic, generally digesting food in an internal chamber, which separates them from plants and algae (some sponges are capable of photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation though). They are also distinguished from plants, algae, and fungi by lacking cell walls. All animals are motile, if only at certain life stages. In most animals, embryos pass through a blastula stage, which is a characteristic exclusive to animals.
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Nevertheless, our ability to perform higher-level thinking doesn't separate us from the animals. Human beings are subject to the same needs as every other animal. Just because other animals can't do what we do doesn't mean that we haven't been evolving. I'm not sure if you have the right idea of what evolution actually is.
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also, animals have speech. the different sounds they make are interpreted as language by others.
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