RE: Anthropoid Enigma

Pim van Meurs (entheta@eskimo.com)
Sun, 16 Aug 1998 03:45:57 -0700

Vernon:
<<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.>>

Why should there be a problem for evolutionists ? Perhaps the issue is cultural ? We grow up with music and therefor we like the music.

Vernon:
<<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?>>

Or is it merely cultural ? Is this why music from other cultures sounds 'unfamiliar' and often 'unmusical' ?

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

As I said, nice strawman argument or was it 'tongue in cheek' ?

Vernon Jenkins

http://www.compulink.co.uk/~indexer/miracla1.htm