It’s true that some monkeys and apes, lured along by rewards, have been able to learn what might be called a simple sign language. But it’s been discovered that monkeys lack the key principle common to all human languages—something called “phrase structure grammar.”
An example of phrase structure grammar would be a sentence that uses the words “if” and “then.” These two words enable us to communicate opinions and complex social ideas, as there are many concepts that an unstructured string of words could never communicate.
Unsurprisingly, the discovery that monkeys lack this key ability has dashed some scientists’ hopes that monkeys could be trained to master a complex language.
No matter how hard evolutionists try to make apes and monkeys our relatives, they always end up finding themselves at a loss for words (excuse the pun). Only humans have the ability to communicate using complex grammar patterns, because God made man in His image with the ability to communicate with Him—and with each other—starting from the very beginning.
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Since some monkeys make a lot of noise and can even use simple sign language, is it possible they might ever learn to speak?
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Apes and monkeys share over 97% of their DNA with us, ergo they are our relatives. And, as reported in the latest National Geographic (p. 26), researchers have observed Nigerian putty-nosed monkeys constructing new meanings from smaller vocal signals. (Good timing on your "fact," I must say; I just received the latest NG a couple of days ago.)
Face it: evolution is real, it's happening before our eyes (ever wonder why you have to get a new flu shot every year?), and you can't argue against it using any sort of credible evidence. Whether or not you want to put "divine inspiration" behind it, it is REAL.
Taking the genetic approach?
According to Science Mag scientist are puzzled why humans have so few genes.
According to them, we have barely more than a worm. Come on man, there may be similarities between primates and humans, but all the similarities in creation, shows they were designed by one creator.
"about 25,000 genes--about the same number as a tiny flowering plant called Arabidopsis and barely more than the worm Caenorhabditis elegans."
"When leading biologists were unraveling the sequence of the human genome in the late 1990s, they ran a pool on the number of genes contained in the 3 billion base pairs that make up our DNA. Few bets came close. The conventional wisdom a decade or so ago was that we need about 100,000 genes to carry out the myriad cellular processes that keep us functioning. But it turns out that we have only about 25,000 genes--about the same number as a tiny flowering plant called Arabidopsis and barely more than the worm Caenorhabditis elegans."
We have had similar conversations, it boils down to your own worldview. You hold the view humans are evolved from matter and no more with nothing to go to. I hold a different view of a Creator breathing the breath of life in Adam.
They already do speak, they aren't simply making "noise". They lack the ability to speak using a certain grammar structure as was recently discovered. See
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v27/i2/focus.asp
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v17/i4/differences.asp
Note that the Isaiah verse referenced in the first link was misinterpreted and I wrote them about that.
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