Evolution and developing a brain?

Question

For you evolutionists out there.. How do you make sense of creatures having a brain.. Dont you think thats evidence of a creator? Are you saying humans adapted and developed a brain to survive.. dont you think something put the brains in our head to think?

I know, i have already taken into account everything has a brain and something put it there most likely. Refer to my other question about why humans are the most intelligent

Annie and Marcus- ' YOU just DONT get IT'

Answer 1

Evolutionists do not say "humans adapted and developed a brain to survive;" instead, they say, "this beast (a mutation of a previous beast) with its better brain had a reproductive advantage."

"Evolution", taken as a theory of change stripped to its essential components, demands only a few things: that there be things that are replicated less-than-perfectly; that whether a thing be replicated at all be a function of circumstance. Darwin's theory came very close to this minimum, as he originally, diagrammatically!, conceived the notion. (Adam Smith apparently also had a whiff of a similar notion, in "Wealth of Nations," but we won't digress down that fruited path; it's just an aside).

The claims of "evolution" are very modest. An evolutionist might be blown away by the observation that it only took a few billion years for a human brain to appear, but, for even that evolutionist, the 'evolutionist explanatory problem' reduces to a stepwise reconstruction backward in time, of a 'Darwinian history' that shows how a lineage had reproductive advantage (as over a competing lineage) in a circumstance.

That's it. The whole thing. The phenomenon of the human, brain and all, is explained by the evolutionist consistently with that minimal set of evolutionist precepts, which is the evolutionist's philosophical aim. When you frame your question in such a way that it imports the notion of purpose, you insist that change is purposive and that all things must be explained in terms of purpose--and that's pretty shaky ground, don't you think?

Answer 2

Even the lowest creature has a brain. Thinking during the day is the same as dreaming during the night. We do not know what other creatures are thinking or dreaming about. One thing for sure: humans are only creature that can make up stories and tell others about it.

Answer 3

The problem is that the use of the brain calls for considerable expenditure of energy. The desire to reduce the energy usage creates a great temptation to close questions by transferring responsibility to an external power. That simplifies so much and allows more energy for persecution of those who disagree and for religious wars.

Answer 4

while i think some still take a hard stand for one or the other, evolution or creation, many today dont see a conflict, that something was created then evolved
we are still evolving, our childrens brains today have developed more then ours did at their age, they are taller,
so the environment, both social and physical, does play a role
i feel we are here to grow, develop, learn, and this has always been our mission, we do have more time to devote to this now that so much of our daily existence has been taken care of, who really knows how it all developed? we can really only look at what has developed since recorded history, and what is developing now
and to me what seems odd, isnt how we have developed, but what went backwards, if Eve could really communicate with a snake, what happened? we cant do that now! what type of brain did she have to allow her to do that?
now i do believe in a creation theory, but i dont base it on that story of Adam and Eve,
i personally have no problem with believing i was created by God, yet believing in evolution

Answer 5

"How do you make sense of creatures having a brain.. Dont you think thats evidence of a creator?"

No, why don't you tie that together for me. I'd like to see a formulation of cause and effect on that one. 'We have a brain, therefore there is a creator' just isn't enough.

Answer 6

nope its evidence that our ancestors right back to the primeval soup days - had a need to develop intelligence to survive- brains didnt just 'happen' theve evolved over millions of years

Answer 7

I think your forgetting that everything bigger than an amoeba has a brain not just humans and even the amoeba has the nucleus.