Even more interesting, though, is how children are learning all these words. In one experiment, scientists give an month-old child an interesting novel object e. In short, what we have learned from studies of very young children is that they are already making rich and sophisticated inferences about the object to which the adult intends this new word to refer.
In all, the tales of wild children are striking and instructive but atypical. The history of the developmental sciences is not merely a history of failures.
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Raphael says to Adam in the garden. Milton also includes the concept of hierarchies in his layout of right reason. Yet his set up of hierarchies allowed for more freedom among the members. He in no way attempted to limit the freedom of his creations. The only ones able to do that were his creations themselves. By manipulating the hierarchy to their own purposes, a reversal occurs, forcing the creation to become the opposite of what they once were.
He believes that it is always possible to rise higher. Satan was the highest among the angels, yet he still felt confined by the hierarchy God had set in place.
He reasoned there was no harm in seeking to better himself and rise even higher in the hierarchy. According to God, one cannot become more than they already are. He once was beautiful and angelic, yet after his fall, he became ugly and twisted. Yet this show of understanding is clearly a ploy, because as Abdiel points out in lines , Satan is inconsistent with his views of hierarchies.
At the same time he declares equality amongst his followers, he reprimands the Son for holding supremacy over equals. As Satan reflects on his fall from grace he blames God for his actions. In his soliloquy in Book IV Satan says that he knows what he did was wrong, and even comes close to repentance He swiftly turns this thinking around, however, and refuses to take any blame for his actions. The only fault lies with God. The logic of Satan says that if God had not created him so high above other angels, he would not have had the same ambition.
Satan ignores his close run with repentance and once again says that it is natural to become better. He feels that because God created him with such a nature, that to be punished is wrong. He cannot help what he is. These thoughts lead to Satan projecting his own tyranny on God. Satan himself is obviously a tyrannical character. According to his reason, everyone else is as well. From the beginning he pushes his own tyranny on God.
He sets God up as a grand tyrant whose only intention was to orchestrate the fall of Satan. He blames the war on God as well, and blames the loss of the battle on the trickery of God in lines of Book I. He justifies his attack on God by saying:. And Cremo doesn't suffer critics gladly.
So I'll choose my words carefully. Cremo strenuously protests the ad hominem attacks targeted at Forbidden Archaeology and its abridged edition, Hidden History of the Human Race. And in the reviews he cites, some critics did unnecessarily tease, trivialize, and spoof the authors' deadly serious presentation of their major evidences for human antiquity.
And I agree that those reviewers should have analyzed FA 's claims more seriously and professionally. But their scorn could have been provoked by the book's blunt, in-your-face debut. As a publicity stunt, Cremo and Thompson mailed dozens of free, unsolicited copies to various paleoanthropologists to trigger a response. And when these recipients opened their packages to discover a book from the International Society for Krishna Consciousness dedicated to His Divine Grace AC Ghaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and consisting of a thousand-page assault on their profession, accusing them of unwittingly and deliberately suppressing evidence, what were they to think?
Perhaps that this book was someone's spooky, surreal prank? Paleoanthropologists have have grown to expect the taunts of Christian anti-evolutionists who appeal to biblical authority. Now they have to put up with Hindus attacking evolution by invoking cyclical kalpas, manvantaras , and yugas while accusing anthropologists of worshiping at the altar of Darwinian fundamentalism and metaphysical materialism.
Gee, where have we heard that before? What kind of reception did Cremo expect? Besides, many critics had genuine problems with Forbidden Archaeology that went beyond "Darwinism". For all its densely technical discussions of archaeological anomalies, many critics complained that Cremo and Thompson bombarded readers with abundantly useless data.
For example, FA devotes pages to analyzing anomalous stone tools depicted in obscure literature over the past years. Worse, these specimens no longer exist. So FA compensated by providing page after page of drawings taken from their original sources. But in his reprinted review on page , Kenneth Feder frets that these illustrations are absolutely useless because it is impossible to determine whether these Paleolithic tools are drawn to scale or accurately rendered.
In Forbidden Archaeology's Impact , Cremo boasts that he's overthrowing the Darwinian worldview; but Darwinism is the study of biology , not Stone Age finds.
And Cremo ignores animal evolution entirely. In 2 reprinted letters, Cremo says he's writing a book that cites land plants found in Cambrian strata from reports published 50 years earlier and fossils of flowering plants found in Jurassic strata about million years ago. Most paleobotanists say that angiosperms didn't appear until the late Cretaceous period about 70 million years ago.
But Cremo never explains why these potential revelations threaten biological evolution. In their separate reviews reprinted in this book, Tarzia and Bradley Lepper revealed Cremo's biological misunderstandings while critiquing his "ape-man" chapter.
Forbidden Archaeology and its abridged version, Hidden History of the Human Race , claimed that Bigfoot, Yeti, and other backcountry "wildmen" really exist and threaten evolution. Because if someone caught a live Sasquatch, that would prove ancient hominids still coexist with modern humans. But on page , Tarzia accuses Cremo and Thompson of "ignoring the possibility of shared common ancestry.
On page , Lepper says, "Cremo and Thompson devote an entire chapter to reports of 'living ape-men' such as Bigfoot, which, even if true, contribute nothing to their thesis that anatomically modern humans lived in geologically recent times.
Cremo's response to Lepper on page is oddly revealing: "While evidence of the coexistence of anatomically modern humans with more apelike hominids today does not do any violence to evolutionary theory, their coexistence in the distant past would do some violence to it.
And the evidence documented in Hidden History suggests that they did coexist in the distant past. I read that passage over and over, trying to make sense of Cremo's response. If he concedes that humans and nonhuman hominids coexisting today would not undermine human evolution, then what was the purpose of his ape-man chapter to begin with? And if modern humans and apelike hominids coexisted in the distant past, paleoanthropologists will always presume that they shared an even earlier ancestry.
For example, even though some paleontologists and ornithologists currently disagree over whether birds diverged from Cretaceous maniraptorans a specific group of dinosaurs or earlier Triassic thecodonts tree-dwelling reptiles , neither side claims their disagreement invalidates the conclusions of common ancestry for dinosaurs and birds.
What's more, Cremo is oblivious to biological context. One of many reasons why scientists accept evolution is because humans share numerous anatomical traits with all living mammals, not just primates. But if we embrace the notion that modern people lived on earth million years ago, long before the arrival of other mammals, reptiles, fish, vertebrates, or any animal with a skeleton or hard body part, then biological patterns would be rendered senseless.
Even if we overlook the implausibility of humans' thriving in an oxygen-starved world without available food sources, think about what it would mean to have people living on earth, eons before the first arthropods arrived. Finding fossilized humans at every level of the geologic column would not be anomalous at all. Those finds would be the rule , not the exception, and a Darwinian paradigm would have never seized a foothold to begin with.
But of all the criticisms aimed at Forbidden Archaeology , Cremo objects most to those who labeled it pseudoscience, which is understandable.
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