Languages

[tjdisc]

Let me break it down for you.  The atheist has to explain how thousands of (DISTINCT) languages could have "evolved" or come about naturally in such a short period of time without a god intervening - such as in the Tower of Babel.  When I said "hard-pressed" I was being kind, in reality if one was truly open-minded to a deity did something, linguistic origin would be high on the list of the supernatural reasons as the only way we see what we see today.  It's why in a world that seeks to show God doesn't exist, language origin is avoided and you don't hear about it much.  You can't just try the old throw billions and billions of years at it to explain what we see today - recorded language only goes back a few thousand years, but it goes from nothing to an explosion of distinct languages.  Like what was shown in that computer model that placed a sort of origin of Indo-European language in Turkey a few thousand years ago.

‘Recorded language’ isn’t the same as ‘the origin of language’. You seem desperately focused on when people learned to write, as opposed to when they learned to speak. I find it unlikely in the extreme that Oog said the word ‘tree’ and invented the appropriate pictograph the same day.

Boru

That seems rather desperate reply actually.  So the explosion of writings in distinct languages happened a few thousand years ago, but everyone was all talking in their own distinct languages (not writing) before that (for how long)?  And that solves everything?