EvC Forum: The Origin of Music

General Nazort writes:

Music is incredible. There is nothing like it. When you are listening to really good music you just get swept up in it, in the richness and power and grandeur of it...I personally like it a lot, and there is something "heavenly" about the best sections of certain pieces...So what I would like to ask is, how do evolutionists explain music, how it came to be, and why it has such a hold over us? As a Christian I believe that music is a gift to us from God that is the closest earthly comparison to what heaven is like.

communion \k-"my-nyn\ n 1 : a sharing of something with others 2 : intimate fellowship or rapport 3 : a body of Christians having a common faith and discipline

RAZD writes:

the simple answer is sexual selection, just as music is part of mating of many animals, especially birds.

Is not sex a form of communion? Does not God want us to love Him first above all other things? If heaven is better than sex, I'm so there!

RAZD writes:

Notice that a lot of courtship occurs on dance halls to music and that performers, especially singers are held in high regard, more so by those of prime mating ages.

So on Earth, if courtship is in musical settings, it follows that Heaven must be bangin! (if you think like a Christian, that is!)

{{{Buddha walks off laughing with joy}}}

almevda writes:

The ability to distinguish between music and noise is hardwired into the Brocas area region of the human brain.

Then how do we explain thrash Metal??

Rrhain writes:

Music is pattern recognition. Pattern recognition as a general concept can have survival advantages.

Sure. Run from the Tiger and chase the pretty girl, right? How about one step further....carve the wooden idol and pay homage to it. God has something to say about idols and images...(Bear with my slight route off topic)

Deut 4:10-13 Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when he said to me, "Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children." You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while it blazed with fire to the very heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness. Then the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice. He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets.

My point is this: If no form was seen in the fire, the pattern recognition was not a finite concept.

Deut 4:15-19 You saw no form of any kind the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully, so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air, or like any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below. And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars--all the heavenly array--do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

Again, I am asking that we focus on the concept that Rrhain brought up....that of pattern recognition. Getting back on topic, lets extend this to music. One mans Rap is another mans Rock and Roll. Our pattern attractions are relative. Same thing with sexual attraction. One mans big breasts are another mans thighs...or whatever physical features attract us to our chosen mates. Now...extend the concept into what God says about idolatry and of how He demands our undivided attention. Perhaps this answers the question in another thread of the knowledge of good and evil. No finite defineable pattern yet infinite communion, love and awareness.....and then! Infinite varieties of patterns, alternatives, other gods, and a rising internal awareness of self deification! They realized that they were naked and their eyes were opened due to pattern recognition.

jazzlover writes:

As an amateur composer I can honestly tell you that music and inspiration come from the soul. You use your brain and education when you're going to arrange it but that first melody and inspiration that suddenly enters your mind definitely comes from the spirit. Music is definitely a piece of heaven on earth. The greatest composers that have ever lived dedicated their music to God.

So who selects the music in Heaven?

Hint: It ain't Wolfman Jack!

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