Linguistic Creationism
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Linguistic Creationism is a theory stating that all of the natural languages could not have developed naturally, so they must have been intelligently designed by God when he destroyed the Tower of Babel.
[edit] Arguments for Linguistic Creationism
- Irreducible Complexity
If you remove letters from the word "book" you get "ook", "bok" and "boo", all of which are nonsensical and hence not sustainable by usage for subsequent evolution into meaningful words. It is thus impossible that the word "book" developed from any other word, it must have been created by God so in order to be used.
- Improbability of spontaneous linguistic genesis
It is highly improbable that even the simplest English sentences were formed from alphabet letters spontaneously, since the odds of monkeys banging away on hypothetical typewriters and in so doing generating a readable and semantically meaningful text is vanishingly small. Hence the English language must have been divinely created and bequeathed to us by God.
- Anthropomorphic Principle
All of the sounds and words in spoken languages can be pronounced. If languages developed by mutations, they would have words like "wthgrrlndyksl" which would be impossible to speak and understand, hence, the change in a language can only be harmful and languages must have been created as they originally were.
- Absence of transitional languages
There are no written texts in Proto-Germanic, Proto-Indo-European and other hypothetical old languages which may be demonstrably shown to be linguistic precursors of the English language. Since no visible stages of development, or transitional manuscripts, were found we can suspect all these transitional languages never existed and English was intelligently designed as it is now by a God proven to exist by the Scriptures.
- Sun-son homonymity
In the English language, the tongue spoken by Baptists, God's own people, the words for the physical source of all light and the spiritual source of all light are homonyms. This suggests that God is trying to remind his chosen people of their Lord and Savior through his creation of language.
- Contradiction with the 2nd law of thermodynamics
The idea of a language spontaneouly arising into human usage and evolving from simple words over the years into its complex nature today from nowhere contradicts the 2nd law of thermodynamics as applied to information theory, which states that (linguistic) information will only degrade over time.
- Addition*
The Bible never says that the languages involved in the Tower of Babel incident were all the modern languages. All actual trained linguists, including Christians who believe absolutely in the authority of the Bible, would consider these arguments absolutely counter-factual. There are, in fact, dialects of English where the 'k' in book is not pronounced as a k, perhaps even at all, for example, so the word 'boo' as part of book is, in fact, not nonsensical in those dialects. Also, since language is spoken by actual people, un-pronouncable mutations will not occur, but not all possible changes are unpronouncable and there is no way every single person says everything in exactly the same way every single time they speak. In fact, most research indicates the opposite! There are attested transitional languages indicating languages have changed, including Old English in which the equivalents of 'son' and sun' are not the same word and which is completely incomprehensible to speakers of modern English, and of which there are many manuscripts which are at least as well-attested as original as the manuscripts of the Bible. Also, entropy and the second law of thermodynamics have absolutely nothing to do with speech, they are physical principles, not cognitive ones. The spreading of ridiculous ideas like those contained here is harmful to the Christian witness in the world as it makes Christians appear to be idiots rather than being the image of Christ in the world. The Bible does not teach stupidity or blindness towards facts.
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