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HARUN YAHYA
he documentary, Evolution: The Mind's Big Bang,
broadcast on The Discovery Channel, set out a
number of Darwinist claims on the subject of
human intelligence and culture. Considerable
T space was devoted to the views of such unrepen-
tant Darwinist scientists as Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins.
This paper examines these Darwinist views and sets out the distor-
tions behind them.
Mankind's Social Identity Did Not Emerge
By Means of Evolution
At the beginning of the documentary there is talk of discoveries
of ornaments and necklaces going back some 50,000 years. It is then
suggested that there was a so-called evolutionary explosion in cul-
tural terms at that time, and various adornments are put forward as
evidence of this. These belong to the ancient human race called Cro
Magnon. It is stated on The Discovery Channel that these adorn-
ments are guessed to have belonged to a pregnant Cro Magnon
woman and to have been used to send a message to other people.
After explaining that such behavior is an indication of social iden-
tity, it is then suggested that these people established social rela-
tionships that did not exist in nature.
The claims regarding these ornaments are not consistent, since
such adornments are not "indispensable" indications of social iden-
tity. The social identity put forward by means of these ornaments
could have been expressed by even earlier people in terms of other
objects, or even in other ways making not use of objects at all (by
gestures, for instance). So, there is no foundation to the idea that one
can simply look at an ornament and infer that previously non-exis-
tent social identities had been established at the time of that adorn-
ment.
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