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Language May Have Evolved Earlier Than Supposed
Science News reports on research suggesting that humans' language ability may have developed earlier than we thought. Scientists used CT scanning of H. heidelbergensis skulls, more than 530,000 years old, to reconstruct the structure of the ear canal of this Neanderthal ancestor. They found evidence that the ears of these early hominids would have had a sensitivity peak in the same 2-4 KHz range that the ears of modern humans do — the range in which most information is carried in language. Sensory systems are neurologically expensive, and it's unlikely that the body would invest the resources in maintaining such a system if it didn't serve a purpose. Quoting: "It may be time to rethink the stereotype of grunting, wordless Neanderthals. The prehistoric humans may have been quite chatty — at least if the ear canals of their ancestors are any indication. The findings suggest human speech may have originated earlier than some researchers contend. Anthropologists disagree about whether language sprang up rapidly around 50,000 years ago or emerged more gradually over a longer period of time..."
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Never heard so much Darwinist claptrap. Theories built on presuppositions, based upon unsupported extrapolation constructed around anti-ID biases.
Darwinism worked well enough in the world of the 1880's when the cell only had four or five parts, but with new millennium understanding of cellular-level molecular biology, a minimum of 250 complex, discrete, interdependent and complementary mechanisms must function within the simplest cell known, or it remains a mass of chaotic dead protein. The odds against the irreducible complexity of a cell with all the DNA, membranes, self-replicating instructions encoded and autonomous self-protection mechanisms springing spontaneously into existence, are the same as rolling sixes in dice, 60,000 times in a row.
The same is true with Darwinian macroevolution. There has never been an example of random unguided organism mutation introducing greater complexity or functional diversity; rather the reverse. Mutations have repeatedly proven only to corrupt DNA and cellular function, introducing errors and genetic dead-ends. No theories or experiments in random mutation have ever successfully introduced higher levels of complexity or improved functionality, even when directed by OUR intelligent intervention.
You cannot even discuss intelligible sound patterns relating to vocal biomorphology until you overcome both the problem of irreducible complexity and entropy in organism mutation.
You don't have to believe in God to grasp that Darwinism as a theory of origins has been thoroughly discredited, believed only by zealots. A new theory about the origin of life is needed. That's why this whole discussion is nothing but an exercise in the creation of hypothetical scenarios, kind of like Trekkers like to do.
So there.