joecoolfrog wrote:bryguy wrote:Titanic wrote:jay_a2j wrote:Titanic wrote:Neutrino wrote:jay_a2j wrote:
Some science is fact. Evolution is not one of them. Animals DO NOT learn speech! They have ways of communicating with each other but do not posses the VOCAL CORDS necessary in which to speak. What part of this are we not understanding? In order for a person to be able to speak a language...they MUST be taught the language.
Sure they can. Monkey screachings, lion raws, bird calls, any other animal noise you'd care to name all contain information. What is speech but the transfer of information? Sure, it's nowhere near as complex as human speech, but it contains information nontheless.
Also dogs barking, birds singing, and cats meowing. There all sounds the animals make which others of its species understand.
Again....COMMUNICATION, not speech.jay_a2j wrote:Definitions of speech on the Web:
* address: the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"
* (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"
* something spoken; "he could hear them uttering merry speeches"
* the exchange of spoken words; "they were perfectly comfortable together without speech"
* manner of speaking: your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"
* lecture: a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to"
* actor's line: words making up the dialogue of a play; "the actor forgot his speech"
* language: the mental faculty or power of vocal communication;"language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"
I believe by your definitions they are more then communication, it is definately speech and possibly an actual form of language.
Can I just ask, wtf has animals having or not having a language or the ability to speak got to do with evolution?
Tail bone, opposable thumbs, fossil evidence, mutations, adaption to environments etc... prove evolution.
dude, when archeologists (i have NO CLUE if i spelled that right, i stink at spelling) found the tooth of a PIG they came up with what a human looked like (one that they thought was the "missing link") and they were utterly humiliated when they figured out that their whole "missing link" was just a pig. A PIG!!
There is a certain amount of scientific evidence to support the theory of evolution,there is NO scientific evidence whatsoever to support creationism NONE !
Look around. The evidence is there. Even some Scientist believe that with all the complexities of nature, the probability of all this happening by mere chance (evolution) is infinitely small. There was a creator and He still exists.
Playing the guitar is NOT speech. Put those infants in an isolated area for 100,000 years, never exposed to LANGUAGE and they will never speak with words. Speech is LEARNED. What does this have to do with evolution? If no one was here to TEACH the apes to speak...they would never be able to speak.
To address some of the posts...off to work now.....