On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:54:12 +0000 (UTC), "Uncle Davey"
<noway@jose.com> wrote:
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> >> And that this because the Tower would have been unacceptably tall?
>> >
>> >'reach the sky' is more than just a physical reaching.
>> So it's not a literal meaning. Interesting dodge.
>I said it was more than a physical meaning.
>I didn't say the literal meaning was not part of the meaning, it usually is.
So "literal" means whatever you want it to mean? "Reach the sky" means
"reach the sky" except when it doesn't.
Well maybe, "On the third day" doesn't always literally mean "on the
third day," either. Your meaning of "literal" is a brush whose width
changes based on *your* prejudices.
>> >> How tall would the Tower of Babel have been if it had been completed?
>> >> (Note: I recommend you use the archaeological record to justify your
>> >> answer.)
>> >
>> >This is a mere irrelevance. Kindly posit a common ancestor of Indo
>European
>> >and Finno-Ugric.
>>
>> That's even more irrelevant. The evolution of language is unrelated,
>> except by analogy, to the theory of evolution.
>>
>
>Interesting dodge and how convenient.
How convenient that I not conflate two different ideas from two
different areas of study?
>In other words you agee that language could not have evolved.
Of course language evolved -- evolution means change. My point was
that biological evolution is a fact, the "theory of evolution" is a
biological theory explaining evolution, and your attempt to discredit
it by positing that all languages didn't come from some proto-language
is simply an obfuscation. The _biological_ "theory of evolution" is
unrelated to, and independent of, the origin and change of language.
>So how exactly do we get from monkeys to man, run that by me again?
By breeding, mutating, living and dying, through millions of
generations.
- Sev
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