Falsifying Creation

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I would want to know because I want to know how others who disagree with God's creation of the human mind chose to justify what science cannot explain, or if have something that can explain it, to please share it with me. I am always open to new information. I have always just wondered this question to myself, and I would appreciate anyone's response who feels fit to respond.

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What is wrong with evolution being the method by which god creates the human mind?
There is a fairly clear relationship between the ratio of brain to body size and intelligence. Human intelligence is largely the result of that. The gradual enlargement of brain size in the human lineage is very clear in the fossil record. There is evidence that suggests that early humans like homo erectus began to show a dramatic increase in brain size is related to a high protein-high fat diet. Most previous humans and proto-humans were more herbivorous. Archaeological sites with remnants of fires caused by homo erectus had scorched animal bones. Homo erectus is the species in which brain size began to grow dramatically. Human language is a fairly recent development, which occured when the larynx dropped, previous humans were physiologically incapable of speech. Human creativity and fully modern cognitive ability is probably just as recent. Demonstratable creativity doesn't appear until after humans diverged from a single population after recovering from near extinction about 70,000 years ago.Edited by CACTUSJACKmankin, : No reason given.Edited by CACTUSJACKmankin, : fix

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I am curious about how people explain human consciousness. I appreciate anyones ideas. If you look at a chimpanzee brain and a human one, you will realize that the only thing humans have over chimpanzees is pure quantity of brain mass, and things such as envy are very simple and not at all like questioning existance.

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In science we don't really have a definition of consciousness. We are pretty sure that it derives from brain function because loss of brain function makes consciousness go away. One of the ways of determining areas of brain function is by loss of areas of the brain and seeing which functions go away. In this sense, consciousness is clearly derived from brain function. However, we still really don't know how to define consciousness and until we do we won't be able to fully understand levels of consciousness and to what degree consciousness exists in animals.

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Also what in the world was the speghetti thing about? I have no idea what that was getting at.

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The flying spaghetti monster is a parody of intelligent design. Proposing the argument that if ID should be taught alongside evolution in the name of "fairness" so should the flying spaghetti monster.