A De Novo Adam's Language?

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@Patrick

Did GA Adam have parents (and brothers and sisters) or not? If he had parents he would have learned the group/family language from them. If he didn’t have parents and was de novo as an adult, was he created with the local language in his brain? If so, he also must have had some kind of immunity to the local pathogens that the group he assimilated into had. Same goes for Eve. Contrary to George, I don’t think two new people from an isolated garden would have been accepted with open arms. They had no skills, no money, no animals with them. They would have been treated like immigrants are treated today perhaps worse.

If we are going to consider the possibility that Adam was created de novo, it is not more absurd to think he created him with the ability to speak.

However, the point that is valid is that there is no need for speech if you are the only being with language. Historically, it was common to consider that Adam was in a community with God in the Garden, and then with Adam, Eve, and God. So they might have shared a language together. If there are people outside the Garden, maybe the language was given to Adam so that he would be able to communicate with them. Likewise, Eve would have either been (1) created fully formed with the ability to speak Adam’s language, (2) taught Adam’s language after begin de novo created, or (3) not been de novo created at all, but be brought to Adam in a dream. At this point we are considering very unique moment in history, outside the natural order.

It is hard to find a problem with it, if there is no evidence against it. I’m not insisting this how it must have been, but drawing analogy to the natural order is not going to disprove something granted from the beginning to be outside the natural order.

@Patrick

and the talking snake

As for the talking snake, we have discussed this elsewhere:

What is the Serpent?

One of the more interesting details of the Genesis story is the Serpent. Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” Was the Serpent a snake? What was it?