a structure. or...? ... Merely as a study of what already is, and according to the person that I am arguing with, has always been.
The argument: I believe that communication derived first from emotional expression and creative outlets and the verbal communication that humans use today is a product of that; my opponent claims that God created language 6 thousand years ago in the garden of eden. Which basically means, according to him, that language was the same with adam and eve as it is today with white American-English speaking people... I referred him to the bible, which has been translated through at least 17 different languages and is by and far not American-English. His only retaliation is to declare me an idiot.
The argument: I believe that communication derived first from emotional expression and creative outlets and the verbal communication that humans use today is a product of that; my opponent claims that God created language 6 thousand years ago in the garden of eden. Which basically means, according to him, that language was the same with adam and eve as it is today with white American-English speaking people... I referred him to the bible, which has been translated through at least 17 different languages and is by and far not American-English. His only retaliation is to declare me an idiot.