Questions Evolution Does Not Answer 
tive intellectual abilities of the 
average American citizen are in 
any way superior to those of the 
Egyptians four thousand years be¬ 
fore Christ, or the Homeric Greeks, 
or to others of the peoples of that 
general period in the Mediterra¬ 
nean basin, records of whose civili¬ 
zation have come more or less com¬ 
pletely to our knowledge. ... In 
other words, since the period of 
historic records, there is no con¬ 
vincing evidence of marked de¬ 
velopment in human intelligence, 
despite the enormous advances 
made in the paraphernalia of civil¬ 
ization/ J (Lull, “Evolution of 
Man,” p. 115.) 
How, then, shall evolution ac¬ 
count for those faculties of man 
which absolutely distinguish him 
from all the rest of the animal 
kingdom—his mental endowments, 
articulate speech, his power of ab- 
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