Centuries Later, Evolutionists “Still Haven’t Found” What Makes Us Unique

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Is it in the way we live, laugh and love? Or maybe it is our dislike of cheesy clichés? Deep within each of us, there must be something that makes us distinctly human. The trouble is, after centuries of searching, we still haven’t found it. Perhaps that’s because we have been looking in the wrong place.

Yes, evolutionists struggle to define what makes us human—and when exactly we “became” human because, yes, they’re looking in the wrong place. Instead of looking to the perfect history given to us in his Word by the God who was there, who knows everything, and who has never made a mistake, they continue to rely on the interpretations of people who weren’t there, who don’t know everything, and who often make mistakes. So of course evolutionists struggle—they have the wrong starting point! They aren’t looking at the one unique very special book they need to be looking at—the Bible.

This article reminded me that there’s another group that struggles to say when exactly we became human—progressive creationists and theistic evolutionists (those who compromise God’s Word in Genesis with evolution/millions of years). After all, they believe much (or in the case of theistic evolutionists nearly all) of the evolutionary story, including that there were prehuman “hominids” before God gave his image to two humans. But which supposed group of human ancestors suddenly became “human enough” to bear God’s image? For some progressive creationists, Neanderthals weren’t fully human, and yet they wore jewelry and makeup, practiced dental hygiene and medical care, understood rudimentary chemistry, made weapons and instruments, buried their dead with rituals, and more—they certainly bear all the hallmarks of humanity. It’s a confusing mess when you attempt to add man’s ever-changing ideas into God’s Word!

In a biblical worldview founded on Genesis 1–11, we understand there were no “prehuman hominids.” Humans and apes are completely separate kinds in no way related to one another; apes were created by God’s spoken command, but man was uniquely crafted by God from the dust and given the breath of life.

And the “something” evolutionists are seeking that “makes us distinctly human” is also revealed in God’s Word: humans alone bear the image of God (Genesis 1:27). We’re unique from the animals not because we ate a higher caloric diet that allowed our brains to grow or because we stumbled across tool use and were able to start consuming bone marrow as we smashed open bones left by carnivores—no, we’re unique because humans were created in the very image of God (Genesis 1:26–27).

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This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.