(January 17, 2020 at 5:34 am)AtlasS33 Wrote:(January 14, 2020 at 12:59 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: ---Or---
1) Humans wonder how speech came to be
2) Humans develop religions to explain unknowns
3) Humans posit that their god gave them speech
4) Humans write the Quran
QED Humans can be dumb sometimes.
I have a problem with the third premise. Speech is well known to the production of both the tongue and the mouth. Even ancients used to take away the ability to speak by simply cutting the tongue or even burn the mouth altogether.
Why would Mohammed -peace be upon him- attribute something like that to God -explicitly and directly-?
Why wouldn't he? If you believe Allah is the creator of everything, surely it's not a stretch to think he gifted us language? Is there some difference between believing that speech evolved by Allah's hand and that he 'gave it' to us?
Speech is a production of the human brain, the mouth is merely the vehicle or tool by which the sounds are made. If you cut out my tongue, I wouldn't magically forget language. I'd still be able to write, I'd still be able to learn sign language and communicate.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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