Humanity

There seems to be a gaping hole in the logic of those strict evolutionists who deny the involvement of a higher power.  There may be a trail of fossils and bones that implies the development of the human body as we know it today.  But there does not seem to be ANY trail of "gradations" of humanity.  There doesn't appear to be an evolution of the human intellect - a time when humans were only partly human, and partly animal.  From the earliest record, from cave drawings - we see an appreciation of beauty, of art.  We see a recognition of a higher power and religious rituals.  We see a social structure.  We see the use of tools - even if rudimentary.  It seems to me as if mankind today can claim no more "intelligence" as a species than that of our ancestors.  We are simply building on an accumulation of knowledge... we "know" more because we've been around longer and have the benefit of the discoveries and wisdom of those who came before.  If you think about it, this is really a paradigm shift for those who have unconsciously believed in the "progress" of evolution.  I didn't even realize that I was a member of this group until I started reading in depth the writings of the early church, and more specifically, Saint Augustine.  It struck me so profoundly that he, before his conversion, was really no different than ME, or many of the other people I knew.  2000 years may be a drop in the bucket, evolutionarily speaking, but if you go back to Abraham, go back to Moses... 6,000 years or more, and it becomes apparent that, even if the culture is different, the people are the same.   When atheists claim that humans "invented" religion  to explain that which they did not know, I am struck by the intellectual arrogance of such an argument.  Do we ASSUME that people in the distant past were stupid?  That they were far less intelligent than we are today?  Why then are we today baffled by the marvels of the pyramids?  We can't explain how the monuments of Easter Island were built, and are just now determining how the ancient Greeks carved their columns.  WE are no smarter than THEY were.  And quite frankly, they had the advantage of QUIET, and the advantage of interacting in a very real way with nature.  They knew about God because they FELT and HEARD Him every day.  In our busy lives today, it is so easy to tune out the reality of the world around us, and just as easy  to tune out the reality of a higher power.  There is not a race, a civilization, at tribe of people, in the history of humanity, that did not believe in an unseen reality beyond what their eyes saw.  Part of being human is being SPIRTUAL.  And that is in absolute stark contrast to even the most "evolved" animal.
When I think of intellectual evolution, I wonder why humanity is the ONLY species that would theoretically undergo such an evolution.  A stone-age dog is not supposed by archeologists to be any more or less smarter than a dog of today.  The same is true with chimpanzees, repitles, sharks.  Why ONLY humans, if such an intellectual evolution is possible?  Our brains grew bigger with time.  There are other animals with brains far bigger than ours - they  do not even remotely approach the sophistication of humans.  So the question becomes not how our bodies came to be the shape they are, but what made us HUMAN?  And that is something that science can't even begin to grapple with, because it can only be answered by something outside natural processes.... it is the stamp of God, His image on us.  We are fundamentally different from animals, as I wrote about here.
Science can't disprove God, because God is the author of  science.   The Bible can't disprove science, because the Bible is the Word of God, and God would not disprove his own handiwork.  The only thing that can be in error on either side of the argument is our INTERPRETATION.