The evolutionist attempts to prove the physical ascent of man from the lower creation. With absolutely nothing to support this, so-called scientists conjure with theories and hypotheses and build up their houses of cards. But the real difficulty they have to face is to account for man's mental, moral and spiritual nature. Here it is where above all the great gulf between the brute and man is seen.
Take song. Birds sing, but no quadrupeds do. Birds sing, but their song is confined to certain notes and trills, which never vary from one generation to another.
And they never sing words as man does. Compare these with the magnificent melodies of a Beethoven, a Mendelssohn, a Haydn, the massive multitudinous harmonies of an oratorio. Birds never sing in parts, nor use words. Man has tenor, baritone and bass voices; woman, contralto and soprano. Evolution cannot account for this.
Take writing. Between writing and the efforts of the beasts in communicating thought to each other there is absolutely no comparison. You may compare a nightingale's song with Beethoven's melodies, but in connection with writing there is no comparison. It absolutely does not exist among beasts. What has evolution to say to this?
Take reading. The same may be said of reading as of writing. We need not repeat.
Take calculation. The three R's—the attainment of the plowboy and the seamstress—are really wonderful, and mark man off from the lower creation in a very distinct way. What does a wise dog know of logarithms, or a goose of algebra, or even an anthropoid ape of quadratic equations?
Take invention. Look at the powerful locomotive or a microscope with all its fine adjustments, or a motor-car, or a common garden spade, or a carpenter's saw, etc., etc., too numerous to mention, and again there is no comparison with the lower creation. Invention belongs to man and only to man.
The following table does not look much like evolution, The proportion of brain to spinal cord is as follows:-
Fish—2 to 1
Reptile—2 ½ to 1
Bird—3 to 1
Mammal—4 to 1
Man—33 to 1
Notice the immense jump between mammal and man.