The long, sad moan of Darwinism

Did Music Evolve?

Quotes and comments;

1. In May 19, 2008 — Nature ran a nine-part series on music. An entry by Josh McDermott, psychologist at University of Minnesota, asked how music might have evolved. The theme, with variations, is that nobody knows.
Music is a uniquely human trait. It is ubiquitous across cultures. Bird songs and animal calls, while musical to us, do not appear to have a music-appreciation function to the animals themselves. The great apes have nothing like it.

McDermott stated the theme in paragraph one:
"We think we understand why we are driven to eat, drink, have sex, talk and so forth, based on the uncontroversial adaptive functions of these urges. The drive to engage in music, a compulsion that is arguably just as pervasive in our species, has no such ready explanation. Music was one human behaviour that Charles Darwin was uncertain he could explain, writing in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex: “As neither the enjoyment nor the capacity of producing musical notes are faculties of the least use to man ... they must be ranked amongst the most mysterious with which he is endowed.” [1.]

- What a sad and dreary way to look at the world; this is Darwin at his curmudgeonly worst.

- This is a classic bit of Darwinist thinking. i.e. it's anthropocentric, in that nothing can be of value if it's not of value to man (i.e. man the animal) It can't be imagined that music might be valuable to god; or valuable to man in expressing his worship of god. It can't be postulated that it's an aid to man's moral, spiritual and aesthetic imagination. The e. can't understand music because he has abolished (murdered) man and replaced him with a trousered ape. He can't understand music because he doesn't see man as made in the image of god; they can't understand it because they don't see it as a gift from god.

- Surely music is of great use to man; and surely only an evolutionists would think otherwise. The examples are numerous, and obvious to anyone who hasn't been warped by a Darwinist education. Music offers joy, comfort, entertainment; it quickens all the emotions. On a higher level, the order and harmony of great music remind us of the perfect world of the creation. They create a longing for an ideal world.

- Darwin didn't seem to ask himself whether his own books were of the least use to man. They were about as useful as stockings on piano legs. All the books on e. are utterly useless in any Darwinian sense (and in any other sense in my opinion) So every time an evolutionists produces another book [doing something producing no reproductive advantage] on Darwinism he's proving that evolution theory isn't true.

- Darwinism is a curse, a plague upon humanity, and this is a woeful example. It's such a destructive ideology that it even destroys such a glorious thing as music. Great music exists but only because the people (now and in the past) aren't self conscious Darwinists.

Notes;
1. Did music evolve? Creation/Evolution Headlines 05/19/2008