Christians, feel free to answer this if you want, but honestly I am more curious towards my past kind, not you....no pun intended. Alright on to business Evolutionists: I had a questions, when I was a evolutionist myself I was stumped by the question Christians always asked. So I am gonna ask all of you what they asked me. There are literally 6500 languages in the world. And all humans orginally (in your idea) came from monkeys....so how did we end up with 6500 different languages if we all came from one type of monkey?
No pun intended towards any of you. I am just exstremely curious as to what you say it is. The bible explains it rather well. so what say you?
Nice answers only please ya'll, I am not intersted in your "idea" I am intersted in hard facts, aka proof. And no website addresses either. I need answers....Thanks
~Kat
2007-01-23 10:44:30 · 36 answers · asked by Kat 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
very good all of you who told me I wasn't an evolutionist, my my, you are smart. Unfortinaly I was an evolutionist..........yes evolutionIST asking dumb questions is an amazing way to get back at your loving kind, who are dumber than my A$$ is. If you wanna fight me, fight me, but don't insult me where I have already been. Asking stupid questions sets you up for the fight of your life. So there it was, "we all came from monkeys" happy? Ha, yeah we didn't but guess what, it just got all of you mad enough to answer the question. Way to be guys! not
2007-01-23 10:58:20 · update #1
I am not any of the above but I was curios to see the answers to your questions. . . But I know that for many cultures their languages was form by giving a sound to interpret symbols ( or words in this case.) So every culture around the world gave a sound to objects, symbols, emotions, etc. that for them made sense therefore their own vocabulary and language was formed.... And of course they are so many languages and cultures now because of it, you also need to remember that by then there was no communication among other tribes. When there was a contact with another tribe their native language or dialect was not the same as the other tribe so in order for them to understand each others languages a different and new language was created for them to understand each other with a mix of both. And already, in this example, they made three different languages. The world is pretty big just because there is a possibility that came from monkeys does not mean that our languages will be the same. or even our skin. We as human adapt to our environment just like animals do.
2007-01-23 11:06:53 · answer #1 · answered by jayden 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You obviously either never did believe the theory of evolution or you just didn't understand. NO person who understands evolution believes we came from monkeys. Just how many times does that have to be posted before you all get that into your heads? We share a common ancestor...that much has been proven over and over by science. Sorry if you don't like or accept that answer but it is the truth. As far as the language thing...has nothing to do with evolution and I believe everyone else has already given you the correct answer.
It's really funny when you christians try to pretend that you were once an atheist who believed in evolution. But the thing about coming from monkeys is a dead give away. Try harder next time.
After reading your additional details I am even more convinced that you were never an *evolutionist*. You're protesting too much and that is a dead give away. And I agree with the poster who stated that you need to learn what a pun is. Google it and it will make sense.
2007-01-23 11:01:35 · answer #2 · answered by Stormilutionist Chasealogist 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We evolved from apes, I'm a great ape, not a monkey! Humans often lived in numerous small groups which aquired there own language as they became seperated one way or another from eathother. Its still happening, If I go to a ghetto I probably wouldn't understand all the slang they use. Even with global communication people still use a different language from one another and new words keep popping up. For the millions of years humans have been using communication via sounds, 6500 languages doesnt even seem like that many.
What difference would it make on how many types something is evolved from? Unless its a hybrid, everything evolves from one type of ancestor.
2007-01-23 11:05:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Humans began to use language when they evolved a lowered larynx that enabled them to make different sounds that could be used for communication. This was a favourable attribute as it meant that they could work together, warn each other, teach each other etc, which is why it became prevalent throughout the species. This would have started off as different sounds, not really like the sophisticated words we have today. They have recenty traced all humans on the planet back to a group of about twenty people in Africa. When some human beings split up and left Africa, moving off to different places, they developed different sounds to describe different things, and different grammar and ways of speaking, hence different languages. It would be a lot stranger if they'd all moved off into different places and ended up speaking exactly the same language! But a lot of languages have similarities with each other where they have mixed and intermingled over the years. English is a very big mixture, and all the latin languages of Europe have a lot of similarites. It really has nothing to do with the kind of ape we evolved from, by the time we developed language, we were already far down the road to being homo sapiens sapiens.
Also, so God didn't want humans to reach the heavens with their tower, and had to thwart them by making them speak different languages? Well where the hell is he whenever we launch rockets or satellites into space? Hmmmmmm?
2007-01-23 11:00:32 · answer #4 · answered by Katrina W 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
At the tail end of the last ice age -- about 10,000 years ago -- there was a vast proliferation of languages. There were several main groups. I'll discuss the one I studied: Proto-Indo-European. A group in the Caucasus headed down and there was a series of displacements of populations. The language seems to have been passed from group to group. As for evidence of common origin -- you can recognize certain fundamentals -- words like mother, father, numbers -- which are common to the Indo-European group, but very different from the Asian language group. Geographic isolation let individual languages develop based on local phenomena. War and trade brought languages back together. One classic example is a French word brought into English before and after the hard "ch" sound was lost in France: chief and chef, introduced about 200 years apart.
Languages change over time. The words for chariot in Lineal B tablets is the same as wheel in Homeric Greek. How is that different from calling a car a "set of wheels"? Languages evolve from new ideas and new means of transmission. The transition from Old English to Middle English was driven by the Norman Conquest. The transition from Middle English to Modern English was fueled by the printing press. That process can be observed by anyone who read the Canterbury Tales in Middle English.
2007-01-23 11:37:49 · answer #5 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bible explains it rather well? You got to be joking, if magic sky men and big towers is an explanation well I'll be damned (probably literally).
The reason why there are 6500 languages is the same as the reason there are millions of species. It is not just genes which evolve, things like languages are not static, they are also continually changing and evolving (in the scientific world, these 'culural viruses' are known as memes). If you look carefully, you can easily see this by looking at the similarities between languages.
Example - I speak French, Spanish and a bit of Italian. It is easy to see the similarities between all these languages as they all have a common root (latin), but have evolved over time (e.g. when greeting - hola (sp), halo (portugues), halo (fr on the phone), hello (eng).)
English is a mixture of these but also the nordic languages which all have a common route (e.g. German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish). The same applies to eastern languages (Chinese and Japanese use the same characters for their kanji).
2007-01-23 10:54:31 · answer #6 · answered by Om 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋
I learned about that back in sixth grade. Where did you and your Christian friend go to school?
Languages shift over time. English people no longer talk like Shakespeare. Italians no longer speak like Romans, in fact they call it Italian now instead of Latin. Other branches of Latin that have mutated in different ways are Spanish and French, and while English has a lot of cognates with it too its more German in nature. Don't even get me started on Sanskrit... There is a whole field devoted to studying how languages change over time and merge and split.
No websites? I googled linguistics...and found plenty of hits. Here's a general article on the entire field from Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_linguistics
2007-01-23 11:00:37 · answer #7 · answered by Mr. NoneofYourbusiness 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1) Humans did not come from monkeys. Please find a source about evolution that doens't set out to disprove it so you can find out what it actually says.
2) It's been 7 million years since the last split with a common ancestor. It's only been a 150 years of American history, and already people from NYC can't understand those living in Alabama - and it's the same language and we travel around a LOT more than we used to. If you lived 50 miles from another group of people hundreds of years ago, why speak the same lagnuage if you've been seperated for a hundred years already? Languages were probably just deveolping when the human race split off and moved on.
2007-01-23 10:49:26 · answer #8 · answered by eri 7 · 14⤊ 1⤋
The dispersal of varieties of language is related to biological evolution how, exactly?
It sounds as if there's as much chance of you ever having been an evolutionist as there is that Ted Haggard was. The ignorance just shines through every time. If only people would read a book or two they wouldn't need (or indeed be able) to ask questions like this...
2007-01-23 10:49:36 · answer #9 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 10⤊ 0⤋
Do some research. Answer these questions. How old
is the planet Earth? When does science say man started
to evolve? Then read what the bible says about when man
was created. Put it all together and you'll find the truth, if your really searching for it.
2007-01-23 12:41:11 · answer #10 · answered by Ruff 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋