Ah, well, there are less convincing arguments made in similar fashion for
the existence of gods....
Science does not say 'If this were shown to be possible'....
As for nursery rhymes- interesting in an idea propagation sense, but even
more interesting, and well researched, are jumping rope rhymes- active
cultural ideoscapes, and out of the mouths of babes....*
The fact that people are creative and have language and combine the two
is more an arrow, to me, towards the biological. I've been forced into
the tents of the instrument-users on this issue- not because I have any
vested interest in either camp, but because as a vagrant eavesdropping, I
have found more sense in the empiricist's camp. But I am not dismissing
the other- I have no power to do that, and there are benefits- to both
sides- once they get together....
*I only have a name- Francelia Butler, whom I am aware of conducting
extensive research in this area. The elasticity and violence of
children's doggerel is well known.
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