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Origin of the Mammals 113

It has been ob ject ed to the fore go ing words, they have a spe cial built-in
view of the or i gin of in stincts that the abil i ty. 118
var i a tions of struc ture and of in stinct The way that all ba bies in the
must have been si mul ta ne ous and ac - world pro duce sim i lar sounds
cu rate ly ad just ed to each oth er, as a
shows that they are all born with a
mod i fi ca tion in the one with out an im -
spe cial in spi ra tion to ward speech.
me di ate cor re spond ing change in the
That hu man be ings are cre at ed with
oth er would have been fa tal." 117
this fea ture, not found in any oth er
As you have seen, in stinc tive be -
liv ing thing, is Allah's sub lime art ist -
hav ior in an i mals can not be ex -
ry.
plained in terms of any ev o lu tion a ry
proc ess, chance, or "Mother na ture".
The source of an i mals' be hav ior lies ORIGIN OF THE MAMMALS
nei ther in their own bod ies nor in
The the o ry of ev o lu tion main -
na ture. Under the in spi ra tion of
tains that a num ber of liv ing things
Allah, all liv ing things be have in the
evolved by emerg ing from the sea,
man ner most suit ed to their own
turn ing in to am phib i ans and then
struc tures and to their sur round ings.
in to rep tiles, and that birds evolved
from those rep tiles. According to the
same sce nar io, rep tiles are the an ces -
ORIGIN OF THE LANGUAGE
tors not on ly of birds but al so of
Regarding the or i gin of lan guage,
mam mals. Yet there are vast struc -
there are two dif fer ent views.. The
tur al gulfs be tween cold-blood ed
first is that a hu man is born with a
rep tiles, whose bod ies are cov ered in
"blank slate" mind and mere ly learns
scales and which re pro duce by lay -
to speak from ob serv ing those
ing eggs, and warm-blood ed mam -
around him. However, the fa mous
mals, which are cov ered in fur and
lin guist Noam Chomsky has put for -
give birth to live young.
ward a very dif fer ent con clu sion
One ex am ple of these gulfs in -
based on sci en tif ic facts, sta tis tics
volves the jaw struc tures of rep tiles
and ob ser va tions. In his view, the
and mam mals. The mam mal i an low -
hu man mind has an in nate pro pen si -
er jaw con sists of a sin gle arc of
ty to learn lan guage and to speak.
bone, in which the teeth are set. A
Human be ings are pro grammed in
rep tile's low er jaw, on the oth er
ad vance for lan guage—in oth er
hand, con sists of three small bones
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