Evolutionists postulate the historic existence of an ever-upward progression in complexity and sophistication of animal life, in the which the later stage of organism development has better capabilities and adaptive powers than do earlier stages of animal life.
It is not until we reach the evolutionary stage of birds that true music is discernable. Crickets chirp and tree-toads ribbit, but those sounds do not have distinctive patterns of varied and definite pitches called songs. Birds have a limited repertoire of songs relating to biological survivability, e.g. mating calls and meeting challenges of aviary competitors.
Then, we have whales and dolphins--sea mammals--naturally-equipped with in-born sonar, to communicate for similar biological purposes through sound waves of definite wave-length frequency: a music of sorts.
If what evolutionists say is true about the ever-upward improvements in animal organisms as they evolve up the ladder, we should detect concommitant improvements in music-making capacities, as animals improve. But evidence for this purpose is singularly lacking: unlike sea-mammals, land mammals have no-such musical capacity.
The music-making capacity of birds and sea-mammals relates to biological necessity. But in higher mammalian stages, the music-making capacity totally disappears, suggesting the end of music's indispensability for biological survival.
Man's allegedly-closest relatives, apes and monkeys, perhaps could be taught to relate aural musical pitch to written music notation on a musical staff, but they totally lack man's power to re-arrange the notes in an infinite variety of ways, to originate the creation of new music. Man alone possesses this capacity, despite it being unnecessary to his biological survival.
What purpose does man's musical capacity serve, if not biological survival? God said, "Let us create a man in Our image", i.e. endow him with a creative power far beyond that of all other animals. In the music-making capacity, then, man represents a quantum leap above all other animals. Evolutionists have no explanation for this sudden quantum leap of man above monkeys and apes, thus opening to question the validity of their claim of constant progressively-upward evolution.
When monkeys play the cello as well as I do, then will I believe in evolution!
-Lawrence K. Marsh
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