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Darwin’s Dilemma: The Soul

ly admitted it. This was “consciousness,” which Alfred Wallace
described as being impossible to have developed by way of ev-
olution, even as he proposed that very theory.

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. . . In the physical realm, any theory of human evolution must ex-
plain how it was that an ape-like ancestor, equipped with powerful
jaws and long, dagger-like canine teeth and able to run at speed on
four limbs, became transformed into a slow, bipedal animal whose
natural means of defense were at best puny. Add to this the powers
of intellect, speech and morality, upon which we “stand raised as up-
on a mountain top” as Huxley put it; and one has the complete chal-
lenge to evolutionary theory. 123
—Evolutionist science writer Roger Lewin
After Darwin, evolution’s proponents tried various explana-
tions for the subject of consciousness, something which was utter-
ly inexplicable in Darwin’s terms. They claimed that imaginary
primitive humans had encouraged the evolution of the brain by es-
tablishing communication with one another and by beginning to
hunt and use tools. They then maintained that with the supposed
development of the brain, language developed and that the ability
to speak gave rise to rational thought—the most important differ-
ence between the human and the other animals.
But these claims lacked any scientific foundation. The fossil
record provided not a single finding that constituted evidence for
any of them. Scientific research, and experiments regarding lan-
guage and consciousness, eliminated any possibility that such
developments could have occurred.
All Darwinists had to offer were claims, which in roughly
the same manner as all evolutionist literature, were de-
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