"Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in message news:<buttes$csv$0@pita.alt.net>...
> "Ineedmoney" <mail@atmycomputer.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:butqab$a2v$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
> >
> > "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in message
> > news:butoq1$4hq$0@pita.alt.net...
> > >
> > > "Cheezits" <cheezits32@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:Xns947A4B5CBF133cheezitsnetzeronet@129.250.170.83...
> > > > laurieappieton@aol.com (LaurieAppIeton) won't even try to defend this
> > > > nonsense, but let's have some fun with it anyway:
> > > > > 1) no natural process which resulted in information forming
> > > > > automatically in matter, has ever been observed;
> > > >
> > > > No act of divine creation has ever been observed.
> > >
> > > Oh yes it has, Sue. When God confounded the languages at Babel, humanity
> was
> > > able to observe it. That's why we were scattered all over the earth, and
> we
> > > speak languages whose families cannot possibly have a common ancestor.
> >
> > Any evidence of that outside the Bible, shmuck?
> >
> > Ed
> >
>
> Sure.
>
> All the evidence of a lack of common ancestor between the various language
> families lies in the fact that in the nearly two hundred years of sensible
> study of philology that we have had, no-one has been able to posit one.
>
> Or even give a reasonable envisaging of one.
>
> So, if you would like to say that it's wrong, then kindly show me what the
> common ancestor language could have looked like between, say, Finno-Ugric
> and Indo-European, and kindly leave my genitalia out of this discussion if
> you want to continue to be treated with respect. There are many more
> elevated uses of Yiddish phraseology.
>
Look up Nostratic; it is a putative common ancestor of Finno-Ugric and
Indo-European. Of course, the "fossil record" for languages only goes
back 6000 years, so anything prior to that is guesswork.
> Uncle Davey
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