teorya ni leiberman

"In the five-million-year-long lineage that connects us to the common ancestors of apes and human beings, there have been many Adams and many Eves. In the beginning was the word, but the vocal communications of our most distant hominid ancestors five million years or so ago probably didn’t really differ from those of the ape-hominid ancestor." This is what Philip Lieberman, a linguist at Brown University, commented in a chapter he entitled ‘What, When, and Where did Eve Speak to Adam and He to Her?. Using biblical terminology, Lieberman had written a year earlier: ‘For with speech came a capacity for thought that had never existed before, and that has transformed the world. In the beginning was the word’.
When God created the first human beings—Adam and Eve—He created them in His own image (Genesis 1:26-27). This likeness unquestionably included the ability to engage in intelligible speech via human language. In fact, God spoke to them from the very beginning of their existence as humans (Genesis 1:28-30). Hence, they possessed the ability to understand verbal communication—and to speak themselves! God gave very specific instructions to the man before the woman was even created (Genesis 2:15-17). Adam gave names to the animals before the creation of Eve (Genesis 2:19-20). Since both the man and the woman were created on the sixth day, the creation of the man preceded the creation of the woman by only hours. So, Adam had the ability to speak on the very day that he was brought into existence! That same day, God put Adam to sleep and performed history’s first human surgery. He fashioned the female of the species from a portion of the male’s body. God then presented the woman to the man (no doubt in what we would refer to as the first marriage ceremony). Observe Adam’s response: ‘And Adam said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man"’ (Genesis 2:23). Here is Adam—less than twenty-four hours old—articulating intelligible speech with a well-developed vocabulary and advanced powers of expression. Note also that Eve engaged in intelligent conversation with Satan (Genesis 3:1-5). An unbiased observer is forced to conclude that Adam and Eve were created with oral communication capability. Little wonder, then, that God said to Moses: ‘Who had made man’s mouth? ... Have not I, the Lord? Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say’ (Exodus 4:11-12).
Pinatotohanan sa bibliya ang teoryang ito, kaya ako naniniwala dito. Kung iisipin nga natin, ang paglikha sa mundo ang siyang hudyat ng simula ng paglikha ng lahat ng bagay. At, kasali na doon ang wika. Sinabi ni Lieberman na kalakip ng pagsasalita o pagwiwika ang pag-iisip. Kaya kung wala pang wika sa pinakasimula, paano maililikha ng Panginoon ang mundo? Ang paniniwala ni Lieberman ay pinatunayan sa bibliya, Genesis 1:3, sa bersong ito : "Then GOD SAID, 'Let there be light,' AND THERE WAS LIGHT." Nangangahulugan itong totoo nga ang sinasabi ni Lieberman. Paano nagkaroon ng wika ang mga tao? Sinaad din sa bibliya ang tungkol dito sa Genesis 1:26-27, "Then God said: Let us make man in my image, after my likeness. God created man in his image." Ibig sabihin nito, nang nilikha Niya ang tao, nilikha niya ito na kahawig sa kanya. At ang pagkakahawig na ito ay hindi lang nagsasaad ng mukha, kundi pati na rin ng ibang kakayahan, kasama na ang kakayahang magsalita. Mapapansin natin na tumutugma ang teorya ni Lieberman sa mga sinaad sa bibliya. Napili ko ito hindi lamang sa Kristiyano ako, kundi dahil na rin sa matatag na basehan na ipinakita niya – ang bibliya. Ang tanging problema lang nito ay ang bibliya at ang siyensa ay di magkatugma.