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Daniel Dennett – Charles Darwin vs Alfred Wallace
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The man in the video says that "Humans can't be allowed to have 'miracle stuff' in the brain when no other animal does". But Man very clearly DOES have "miracle stuff" in the brain, if you want to frame it like that. Man has a concept of the ideal. Animals do not. Man has a concept of abstract thought, an awareness of things like time, ethics, truth, etc. Animals don't have any of these concepts. They don't even have language. Tom Wolfe wrote an interesting book called "The Kingdom of Speech" which shows just how problematic language is for the theory of evolution. And, no, animal grunts or bird-chirps are not language. No pig snuff conveys a complex thought like, "The maiden meandered through the green field, with a veil flowing around her face like water vapor". No dolphin-squeak conveys a thought like: "The stars were stretched across the sky like rain drops on a spiderweb."
Russell made devastating points about natural selection that crushed Darwin. For instance, chimps have a brain that is only a third the size of man's. Evolution says that different species should have gradual variations. Not anything that massive. For the next species to have an advantage, it calls for them to have a minute change, not a massive change. Man's extra brain matter is problematic for evolution. It's excessive as hell. Also problematic is that Neanderthals had larger brains than modern man. Evolutionists hid this for a long time, fearful that it undermined their basic premise. (And of course it did.) Russell pointed these things out, and Darwin had no response.
Darwin also said that natural selection would NOT give a species a disadvantage. Russell pointed out that all other primates have thick coats of fur that protect them from the rain. Modern humans lost this coat, and then started killing other animals to use their skins as a coat. So clearly, it was a disadvantage. When Russell pointed this fact out to Darwin, Darwin could only beg him to stop bringing these facts to the attention of outsiders. He couldn't refute them.