RE: Is the Afro-Asiatic linguistics incompatible with Young-Earth Creationism?
July 13, 2023 at 5:45 pm
(July 12, 2023 at 7:43 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: no, main stream linguistics consider all human languages to probably have just one or very few common origins, far back in Africa before Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa. some even think the common mother tongue may prefatevthe rise of homo sapiens by considerable time.
Because of the antiquity of the relationship between major language families, their exact relationships are somewhat blurred and the subject to debate, but nobody thinks Indo European language originated separately from any other language. The closest linguistic relative of Indo European languages have been proposed to be Uralic, pontic or none other than ypur Afroasiatic families languages
Think of it this way, there are people in the world who are said to have no known living relatives. That does not mean they were dropped on the earth from a UFO. They still share the same genetic heritage as every person around them, it’s just that you have to go back may be a few more generations to find the common ancestor, and it takes more work to identify call the closest living relative’s are.
Maybe, but that's very unlikely to be convincing to a Young-Earth Creationist.
