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There are many races in the world speaking many languages, and every language is
highly complex. Evolutionists cannot even imagine how such complexity might have
come about gradually.
University made this failure abundantly clear when he said, "Human
language is an embarrassment for evolutionary theory . . ." 68
The well-known linguist Derek Bickerton summarizes the rea-
sons for this "embarrassment:"
Could language have come directly out of some prehuman trait? No.
Does it resemble forms of animal communication? No . . . no ape, de-
spite intensive training, has yet acquired even the rudiments of syntax
. . . how words emerged, how syntax emerged. But these problems lie
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