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Author Topic:   The Origin of Music
almeyda
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Message 4 of 59 (131789)
08-09-2004 3:18 AM


Its not just music. Its all of man thats different from Darwinian natural selection. Some evolutionists cant even explain why people help others and frequently cooperate. Christian behaviour makes absolutely no sense from an evolutionary framework. But as for the topic of music. It gives no obvious advantage in the Darwinian struggle of survival. How could natural selection shape the brain to derive pleasure from music?. Our brains stimuli goes far deeper than any 'chance' theories from evolutionists. A working memory is needed to store snatches of melody, harmony & rhythm, while our brain makes sense of the whole tune. Then theres the individuals who become geniuses at maths, art, MUSIC because of severe mental disabilities such as autism. Again evolutionists are in a quandry for such 'over-design'. This is because natural selection as observed in the present, deals with characteristics present and nececesary for immediate survival. Its no problem for christians though, who believe an infinite intelligence created man.
The ability to distinguish between music and noise is hardwired into the Brocas area region of the human brain. This area is also probably involved in the understanding and capacity to distinguish a meaningful sentence from nonsense. So i guess the question i would like answered is 'what would be the survival value of the ability to appreciate music? & how could it have evolved by natural selection?

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almeyda
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Message 27 of 59 (132307)
08-10-2004 8:58 AM
Reply to: Message 20 by jar
08-09-2004 11:36 PM


Re: sexual selection
So how could something so complex and so fascinating have evolved through chance and natural selection?. We must have had to evolve from a common ancestor and/or apes. So we should be able to find an upbringing in language/speech developement. But we dont. Only with man who has seemed to have popped out of nowwhere. After years of experiments training chimps, it is doubtful whether true grammatical ability has ever been demonstrated in these animals. Much to the frustration of evolutionists.

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