> Can someone please explain why a material human explanation is
> insufficient?
Has anybody actually offered such an explanation? If so I'd like to hear it.
I've been trying to play old JSB's stuff for years. I don't really have the chops for it, but I keep plugging away. What always amazes me is what happens inside, in the inner voices that no one really hears.
Of course it's inexplicable with God or without him. With him, you ask, why did he bother -- why not just tell us about vaccination for smallpox a little sooner, instead? What is he, a fugue queen?
But without him, you have to wonder how the old Kapellmeister got so much better than Telemann or JG Walther -- who are, actually, pretty damn good. They had the same generations of human effort to build upon.
I'm not trying to make a case for God here. But the idea that there is an alternative "material explanation" for JSB or, for that matter, a material explanation for human language, seems like a bluff. We materialists just can't fill our hand on this kind of thing. Like everybody else, we have to shrug our shoulders and say, "who the hell knows?"
What we do have a really good story about, is who's fucking us, and why. Maybe we should concentrate on that?