The New Encyclopædia Britannica says: “The earliest records of written language, the only linguistic fossils man can hope to have, go back no more than about 4,000 or 5,000 years.” (1985, Vol. 22, p. 567) So you think that language only developed when the earliest human records of writing were identified. That means that you think that San Bushmen and Aboriginals only developed a language about 4000 to 5000 years ago. Evidence that they had language can be found in their anatomy. Science Illustrated of July 1948 Is that the most recent opinion that Watchtower can come up with?
An article in Science Illustrated of July 1948 (p. 63) states: “Older forms of the languages known today were far more difficult than their modern descendants . . . man appears not to have begun with a simple speech, and gradually made it more complex, but rather to have gotten hold of a tremendously knotty speech somewhere in the unrecorded past, and gradually simplified it to the modern forms.”
These statements are made without any evidence to support them.
Wouldn't you expect ancient languages to be formed from grunts and growls if we descended from apes?
Speak for yourself (and other JWs?). The rest of us evolved from a common ancestor with extant apes and not from extant ape species. Sometimes Watchtower makes less sense than the grunts from extant ape species so you may have a point.
