Here’s a simple question to ponder as we consider the question of the origin of life, whether by evolution or by creation: if you believe in evolution, how would you explain the human brain? Evolution, after all, asserts that were are on a general upward trajectory, up from the prehistoric primordial slime. If that is the case, why would the human brain have, as The Encyclopedia of the Brain and Brain Disorders states, a “virtually unlimited” data storage capacity? Where did that come from?
We supposedly evolved from fish who slithered onto dry land and gradually evolved their gills into lungs. Their memory banks are said to be erased every few seconds. Yet there are humans (actress Marilu Henner is one of them) who have a condition called hyperthymesia (a word that literally means “excessive remembering”) and who thus can remember everything: what they had for lunch on May 14, 1991, for instance; what day of the week February 23 was in any year you might name; what the weather was like on any date of their lifetime.
Some scientists believe all of us have a degree of hyperthymesia, and as proof they offer the experiences we have all had: the memory of something forgotten for decades, perhaps an obscure event from childhood, is suddenly triggered and comes back to mind in amazing detail.
If the Bible’s account of life’s origins is true – Adam and Eve were told they would never die if they didn’t sin – then a “virtually unlimited” memory makes perfect sense. But if we ascended from single-celled organisms and eventually to primitive primates and on to our current form, how did this prodigious capacity for memory arise?
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