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Harun Yahya

All languages on Earth are complex, and not even evolu-
tionists are able to imagine how such complexity could have
been acquired gradually. According to the evolutionist biologist
Richard Dawkins, all languages—even the tribal ones regarded

as most primitive—are highly complex:
My clear example is language. Nobody knows how it began ...
Equally obscure is the origin of semantics; of words and their mean-

ing ... all the thousands of languages in the world are very complex. I
am biased towards thinking it was gradual, but it is not quite obvious
that it had to be. Some people think it began suddenly, more or less

invented by a single genius in a particular place at a particular time.
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Two evolutionist brain researchers, W.K. Williams and J.
Wakefield of Arizona State University, say this on the subject:

Despite the lack of evidence for intermediate stages in linguistic evo-
Richard Dawkins lution, the alternatives are hard to accept. If some species-specific

characteristic did not evolve in piecemeal fashion, then there would seem to be only two ways to explain its ap-
pearance. Either it was put in place by some still-undiscovered force, perhaps through divine intervention, or it
was the result of some relatively abrupt change in the development of the species, perhaps some sort of sponta-
neous and widespread mutation ... but the fortuitous nature of such a happenstance mutation makes that expla-

nation seem suspect. As has been pointed out (Pinker and Bloom, 1990), the chances against a mutation resulting
in a system as complex and apparently so ideally suited to its task as is language are staggeringly high. 71

Professor of linguistics Noam Chomsky comments on the complexity of the ability to speak:
I've said nothing so far about the production of language. The reason is that there is little to say of any interest.
Apart from peripheral aspects, it remains largely a mystery. 72

To anyone not trapped inside evolutionist preconceptions, the origin of the capacity for speech is per-
fectly clear. It is Almighty God Who bestows this ability on Man. God inspires speech in human beings and

causes them to speak, as is revealed in a verse from the Qur'an:
... They will reply, "God gave us speech as He has given speech to everything. He created you in the first place
and you will be returned to Him." (Surah Fussilat: 21)
In the same way that evolutionists are unable to account for the complexity of the biological structures
that enable speech, they are also unable to explain the origin of the consciousness that makes language pos-

sible. Human consciousness
and the complexities of lan-
guage show that language was

created by a superior
Intelligence that belongs to
Almighty God, our Lord.

Noam Chomsky

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