The Origin of Music

Music is incredible. There is nothing like it. When you are listening to really good music you just get swept up in it, in the richness and power and grandeur of it. I don't know how many of you like classical music. I personally like it a lot, and there is something "heavenly" about the best sections of certain pieces, for example the inverted section of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.So what I would like to ask is, how do evolutionists explain music, how it came to be, and why it has such a hold over us? As a Christian I believe that music is a gift to us from God that is the closest earthly comparison to what heaven is like. That is why heaven in the Bible is often described in musical terms. But how do evolutionists view music?

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If you say there are no absolutes, I ask you, are you absolutely sure about that?

I wasn't making any argument, though - just stating my beliefs and asking about those of evolutionists.I see that most of you seem to think music evolved from mating rituals where music was used to attract the opposite sex.Sooooo my question is this: if monkeys and humans both evolved from a common ancestor, how come only humans have music, while monkeys do not? (hooting sounds are not music, bird calls are)

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If you say there are no absolutes, I ask you, are you absolutely sure about that?

How did ears develope?

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If you say there are no absolutes, I ask you, are you absolutely sure about that?