None of the deep drawer of evolutionary just-so stories come anywhere close to explaining how man might have acquired the astonishing ability to craft unlimited propositions and concepts and subtleties within subtleties using a system of grammar and abstract designators (i.e. words) that are utterly lacking anywhere else in the animal kingdom.
The human mind has immaterial abilities — the intellect’s ability to grasp abstract universal concepts divorced from any particular thing — and that this ability makes us more different from apes than apes are from viruses.
We are ontologically different.
We are a different kind of being from animals.
We are not just animals who talk.
Although we share much in our bodies with animals, our language — a simulacrum of our abstract minds — has no root in the animal world.
It is sui generis.
It is a gift, a window into the human soul, something we are made with, and it did not evolve.
Language is a rock against which evolutionary theory wrecks, one of the many rocks —
the uncooperative fossil record,
the jumbled molecular evolutionary tree,
irreducible complexity,
intricate intracellular design,
the genetic code,
the collapsing myth of junk DNA,
the immaterial human mind —
that comprise the shoal that is sinking Darwin’s Victorian fable." EN&V
Because that, when they knew God,
they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful;
but became vain in their imaginations,
and their foolish heart was darkened.
Romans 1:21
