The Study of Verbal Communication Also Offers Intriguing Evidence Against Evolution

Humanists have spread evolutionary thinking across many areas of human development, including linguistics. It stands to reason, though, that if languages evolved the earliest languages should be the simplest. To the contrary, though, language studies reveal that more ancient languages are actually more complex than many modern languages—for example: Latin (200 BC), Greek (800 BC) and Vedic Sanskrit (pre-1,000 BC). The best evidence indicates that languages devolve. They actually become simpler rather than more complex. (Footnote 26)

The study of verbal communication also offers intriguing evidence against evolution. Studies of the thirty-six documented cases of children raised without human contact (feral children) show that speech appears to be learned only from other humans. Apparently, humans do not learn to speak automatically. This suggests that the first humans must have been specially endowed with an ability to talk. There is no evidence speech has evolved. (Footnote 27)

Footnotes:

26 Walter T. Brown Jr., In the Beginning (Phoenix, AZ: Center for Scientific Creation, 1989), 3.

27 Ibid.