2006/06/24

Language: Origin of everything

I had a discussion with a friend of mine over my thoughts on how powerful words and language are and should be foundational to those who are serious about countering Theory of Evolution. The big picture facts are: language is necessary part of explaining and supporting any theory, Evolution or otherwise. Even "facts" can only be described and preserved in some language. A common language among sciences is the language of mathematics. But all these hand waving and paper writing are postmortems, explaining what happened (and happening) via language.

The Bible turns it all upside down:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. John 1:1-3

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. Genesis 1:1,3
Words spoke the world and life into existence. And even a language using being named "homosapiens:"
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:26,27
Not only did our universe came into existence via pure words but humans were blessed (and cursed) with language, with words which transcends the reality of here and now -- i.e., independent of the space-time continuum.