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Do you remember the story about the elephant and the aspirin? When we say a word, let us take love as an example. In the listeners mind they get a picture/feeling. One may have a picture of a kind loving family with brothers and sisters. Yet another’s picture may be of sex or attractiveness. Another’s may be of money, respect or receiving food. What picture/feeling do you get in your mind when someone says the words “I love you” In order to fully analyze this we first must know what we mean when we say to others, I love you. This is a good starting point to begin to understand what they are saying. Are we saying aspirin, but perhaps they are seeing an elephant? I like the story I tell about a friends little grey Volkswagen beetle. If I took a very young child, just of the age of being able to identify objects. I then told that child that the grey Volkswagen was an elephant each time the child observed one. Then society supported that belief with that child, what do you think the child would grow up calling a Volkswagen? Effective communication, or rather lack of, I see as the single biggest problem in our society and to solving our problems. What one person visualizes as a full day’s work and what another visualizes is never the same. What one may see as fair, the other may see as unfair. This happens often among the same basic fundamental culture. You can begin to see how complex this gets when we begin to blend other cultures and languages. The Parable of the Tower of Babel in Genesis tells us that unless we all use the same mouth-noises to mean the same things we are unable to do things beyond the scope of the lesser primates. Communication by abstract mouth- noises is the distinguishing characteristic of Homo sapiens and that does not work unless our behavior has a substantial component of mutual conformity. If evolutionists are so blind to the characteristic that makes us unique among animals, it is no wonder that people that are more non-academic prefer to believe in religion than evolutionary science. |
Any sufficiently advanced information is indistinguishable from noise.