Homo Creativus

Evolution. It’s all around us ... right? Well, look again.

Observe your fellow homo sapiens, and it won’t take long to discover that we are a creative breed. We’re always making things, inventing things, improving things (this last one, I admit, is in many cases debatable, but I trust that you get the point). In other words, the products of human ingenuity are made, not evolved – they didn’t get there on their own; we made them and put them there. Take a look around you: roads, street signs, traffic lights, buildings, houses, bridges, dams, governments, entertainment – these things did not evolve in the Darwinian sense of the word. Whenever any one of us looks at any of these objects, we know that they didn’t get there on their own; we know that somebody put them there. If evolution were true, then, wouldn’t it be the driving force in all of existence, not just part of existence? Wouldn’t it effect not only the nonhuman realm, but the human realm as well (i.e., the products of our hands)? I believe so, but this is clearly not the case; we don’t evolve things, we make them. Why is that?

According to the Bible, humans – and only humans – are made in God’s image. And since God is creative, therefore we are creative. You see in humans a real creativity, a real spark of life, that no other breed has. Take a look at the rest of the natural world. Ants build colonies, yes; beavers build dams and bees build hives. But they’ve been building them the same way for thousands of years, as long as they have existed. They don’t change. Why? Because they’re programmed, because they have no free will – because they’re not made in God’s image. They’re beautiful yes, but still different. Humans, on the other hand, have progressed, in many ways, over time: we have better technology than what we had 500 or 1000 years ago; we have more dependable means of transportation, faster forms of communication, improved medical care. If evolution were true, why then isn’t there at least one other creature, out of the millions that exist in the world, with a level of intelligence comparable to ours? Why are we the only species with a real creativity, a real spark of life? And consider the full implication of evolution being true, if it were: there would either be no God, or else He would be just as much a product of evolution as we, and therefore as fallible as we, and therefore really not of much use. And there would also be no true, absolute moral standard, which brings me back to a previous argument – none of us would have the right to define anything as right or wrong, good or bad, and we should consider any form of government to be both a farce and an oppressive thing.