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mand of language and the same kind of mind and consciousness and in-
telligence as anyone else. 98
Since there is no direct correlation between brain size and intelli-
gence, there can be no significance to any claim of evolution based on
cerebral dimensions. This shows that claims that the brain grew in size
in response to needs is based not on any scientific observation or evi-
dence, but on blindly supported Darwinism.
In addition, evolutionary scenarios based on brain size are also in-
ternally inconsistent. One major inconsistency is that so-called primitive
humans possess rather large brains in comparison with the status of ape-
man ascribed to them. According to the scenario, creatures living in an
almost identical manner to apes have large brains, which contradict the
logic of evolution.
Charles Darwin himself first identified this inconsistency.
In 1869 Alfred R. Wallace, a naturalist who developed the theory of
natural selection together with Darwin, wrote to Darwin expressing his
concern that natural selection could not account for the human brain:

Natural Selection could only have endowed [the so-called] savage man
with a brain a little superior to that of an ape, whereas he actually possess-
es one very little inferior to that of the average members of our learned so-
cieties. 99
Darwin immediately realized that this posed a threat to his theory,
because the human brain he had branded as allegedly primitive was
very much larger than that of the primitive man predicted by his own
theory. In his response to Wallace, Darwin warned,

I hope you have not murdered completely your own and my child [the the-
ory of evolution]. 100
None of the fossils discovered since then have eliminated Darwin’s
fears. For these reasons, when asked why and how such a complex or-
gan as the human brain developed in primitive man, the evolutionist pa-
leontologist Richard Leakey replied, “I have not the slightest idea.” 101