But by whatever mutancy language arose, supposing this to be the case--and I'm not making an argument that has anything to do with "intelligent design" one way or another-- supposing that by whatever mutancy language appeared, then, of course, the next day there were an avalanche: then it might well be the case that this species consisting of all of us sitting in this room and I guess a few other people, &amp;gt; that this species might be mute. 