Anthropoid Enigma

Vernon Jenkins (vernon.jenkins@virgin.net)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:46:06 +0100

The final paragraph of my posting of Tuesday last, 'The Music Lesson'
suggested that evolutionists might have a problem explaining the
significance of music in people's lives. For though tastes differ, the
inherent principles are identical.

However did the twelfth root of two (or its early approximations) become
part of man's psyche? (I speak of the ratio of frequencies represented
by the semitone interval - the indivisible step in music ranging from
Bach to boogie, and beyond). Is it possible that an anthropoid
possessing such a faculty had some survival advantage over a brother who
hadn't? If so, what might that advantage have been?

I think the matter deserves an 'evolutionary' explanation - otherwise
Darwinists could be justly accused of not thinking through the
implications of their faith.

Vernon Jenkins

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