Chomsky -- Put up or blah blah

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Scott Martens wrote:
>>>Mmmm... Well, I actually agree with Chomsky's analysis of behaviourism,
>>>at least with regard to linguistics.  The "poverty of stimulus" agrument
>>>is one of the good things I am willing to give Chomsky credit for.
>>>There aren't many people left who don't agree, in princile, with the
>>>inateness hypothesis of language.  I'm not very happy with the kinds of
>>>universals Chomsky thinks exist, or the mechanisms he is trying to
>>>ascribe to language, but human brains are clearly intended to learn
>>>langauge.<<<

Since the discussion concerns language, grammar, etc., allow me to point
out a problem of the passive voice in the above: "human brains are clearly
intended to learn langauge."  Intended by whom?  God?

Yoshie