If you believe in evolution, I’d like you to wrap your brain around this: your brain. Some biologists have likened the brain to a bowl of Jell-O, but this particular quivering blob has been called the most complicated piece of machinery in the known universe. That’s saying a lot. To liken the brain to the most complex computer on the plant is an insult to the brain. As Carl Sagan once said, “The brain is a very big place in a very small space.” He was alluding to the fact that the brain, as he put it, has a storage capacity that “would fill some twenty million volumes.” The brain can handle virtually any load of learning and memory any particular brain owner may put upon it – times a billion or more. Encyclopedia Britannica states that the human brain “is endowed with considerably more potential than is realizable in the course of one person’s lifetime.”
Think about that for a moment within the context of evolution.
The existence of the human brain, said one evolutionary scientist, “remains the most inexplicable aspect of evolution.” Why? Because Evolution 101 says we’re ascending from simple and primitive toward complex and sophisticated. The brain, within the scope of that teaching, makes no sense whatsoever. As the scientist wrote, it’s “inexplicable.” Clinging to evolution, however, he went on to state that the brain is “the only example in existence where a species was provided with an organ that it still has not learned how to use.”
Does that make sense to you?