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Originally Posted by Kevin M
There plausible, common sense explanations for our big brains from both evolution theory and creation theory. Bigger brains = smarter, smarter = more survival from the evolution standpoint. The cost of our big brains is long gestation, difficult childbirth, and looooooong adolescence. This is why we developed complex social interactions, strong emotions, etc. They are necessary components of the overall "gameplan" for our species. Obviously there's a lot of complexity involved that I can't get into, but nearly everything we think we know about Homo Sapiens jives with Darwinian evolutionary theory.
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I understand the explanations on the creation side and I feel that they are better than what evolutionists have provided as of today. I don't know if evolution can ever be proven wrong because it is constantly changing or evolving when a conflict arises. Then you mention that evolution has a gameplan for us? Evolution is almost starting to sound like a higher power in of itself or a deity with a consciousness of its own. Some explanations make it seem like evolution makes
decisions, and those decisions are not only based on necessity for survival but, out of luxury.
Looking at it from the evolutionist side, weigh the risk to benefit ratio of the explanation you posted.
Developing emotions and having a big mostly useless brain while having an extremely long and vulnerable adolescent period of life.
vs.
Being devoid of
most emotion while still being able to communicate to a high level with a smaller brain and having a short adolescent period with less chance of being snuffed out before you are an adult.
I would have to argue that evolution would choose the later as it seems to have done with 99.999% of all other life. There are millions of animals that thrive with a fraction of the brain we have.
I feel that the theory of evolution is similar the way some bibles were translated. Many men who were bible translators had an idea already in their head before starting to translate. When they came upon scripture that didn't fit with what they already believed, they changed what was originally written to suit their own purpose. I feel that evolutionists very easily find new information through honest science and simply chalk it up to evolution either because they don't want to believe in creation or they don't want to be proven wrong.