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CHAPTER 16.
CHAPTER 16.

EVOLUTIONISTS' CONFESSIONS THAT
THE HUMAN SOUL CANNOT BE
EXPLAINED IN TERMS OF EVOLUTION

A nother subject that evolutionists cannot explain is how, dur-
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ing the process of evolution, humans acquired characteristics
that separate them from all other life forms. Human beings
are conscious entities possessed of free will, able to think,
speak, reason, take decisions and make judgments. All these characteris-
tics are processes belonging to the human soul, which is the main feature
creating the enormous gulf between humans and other animals.
Man is the only living thing in nature with a soul, and no supposed
mechanism of evolution can account for the features of the soul and its

formation.
All evolutionists, Darwin included, are well aware of this. Here are a
few examples of evolutionist admissions on this subject:
Darwin restricts natural selection, which he proposed as a propulsive
force, to the formation of new species and forms on the biological level.
He regards various factors affecting the emergence of the various activi-
ties that we refer to as culture and civilization as having occurred during
the process of developing the emotional, mental and moral attributes we
see in their clearest form in humans. Man is not only the biological prod-
uct of natural selection, but also of progress in the psychological, moral
and cultural spheres.

However, it is far from clear how the aimless, mechanical process of natur-
al selection, can have led to such extraordinary advances. We cannot even
say that Darwin provided a satisfactory resolution of this difficulty. 337
Moral (ethical) behavior is not a natural form of behavior, but a cultural
one unique to man alone. We know that Darwin failed to see that distinc-