A recent article has confirmed that human brain evolution was
special unlike anything else they have observed.
The full article can be found at:
Human Brain Evolution Was a 'Special Event' | HHMI
The key point here which gives Creationists a lot of fuel for their case is this quote:
quote:
One of the study's major surprises is the relatively large number of genes that have contributed to human brain evolution. “For a long time, people have debated about the genetic underpinning of human brain evolution,” said Lahn. “Is it a few mutations in a few genes, a lot of mutations in a few genes, or a lot of mutations in a lot of genes? The answer appears to be a lot of mutations in a lot of genes. We've done a rough calculation that the evolution of the human brain probably involves hundreds if not thousands of mutations in perhaps hundreds or thousands of genes”and even that is a conservative estimate.”
It is nothing short of spectacular that so many mutations in so many genes were acquired during the mere 20-25 million years of time in the evolutionary lineage leading to humans, according to Lahn. This means that selection has worked “extra-hard” during human evolution to create the powerful brain that exists in humans.
The whole questio is how did humans obtain so many mutations in such a small period of time? This is incredible even for evolutionists, but it is of course easier for creationists to explain.
So the question is : Is this
special event a series of chance mutations that just happened to go the right way or divine intervention? [/b][/i]
Of course this goes back to the age old argument of
beneficial mutations. But I am curious why do evolutionists themselves admit to a
special event. It seems to me that they are somehow acknowledging a Divine Creation. Or at the very least, expressing incredulity towards the very process they claim to know about . That process of course being evolution driven by
random beneficial mutations which has not been proven.
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