What Makes Us Human?

The Nature of Man

God created human beings in His image, with a unique spiritual nature and an eternal destiny. To envisage human beings as nothing more than evolutionarily advanced animals—mere products of random luck over millions of years—is not an inconsequential choice but a dangerous position.

Humans Are Unique

We know from the book of Genesis that God did not use one organism as raw material for the next but instead spoke each into existence over the course of a few days. Human beings have remarkable differences including a spiritual nature that chimps have never and will never have.

Running Makes Us Human?

The popular media is abuzz with the new claim that “running made us human. The essential results of this study are that both living and fossil apes were incapable of endurance running but both living and fossil humans are capable of such running ability.

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Centuries Later, Evolutionists “Still Haven’t Found” What Makes Us Unique

Aug. 5, 2024 from Ken Ham Blog
Evolutionists can’t find what separates humans from animals, because the answer’s in Genesis.
Magazine Article
Language Acquisition: Making Sense of the World

May 30, 2021 from Answers Magazine
“Why?” A young child’s barrage of questions isn’t a sign of stubbornness. It reflects an inquisitive mind that’s putting together a verbal map of the universe.
The Evolutionary Problem with Grandmothers

April 16, 2019
In an evolutionary worldview, human grandmothers are a bit of a puzzle. Why would evolution favor human grandmothers?
News
Human Cooperation—the Result of a Belief in Angry Gods?

March 14, 2019 from Ken Ham Blog
How did humans start cooperating with one another? A recent study suggests the belief in “punitive gods” caused our evolutionary ancestors to begin cooperating.
In-Depth Article
What Would a Monkey Say If It Had a Mind to?

Jan. 17, 2017 from Answers in Depth
Though monkeys can’t imitate human language despite speech-ready vocal tracts because of their brains’ wiring, their versatile alarm calls meet their needs.
In-Depth Article
Do Babbling Bonobos Decipher the Evolutionary Secrets of Baby Talk?

Aug. 29, 2015 from Answers in Depth
If additional tests reveal bonobos actually are communicating with one another, the authors’ evolutionary leaps will still be groundless.
In-Depth Article
Did Huh? Arise in Every Language through Convergent Evolution?

March 13, 2014 from Answers in Depth
Previously thought of as something akin to a grunt, huh? qualifies as a bona fide word, linguists now say.
MIT Linguist Claims Human Speech Evolved from Birds

March 16, 2013 from News to Know
What do honeybee waggles and birdsong have to do with human speech? An MIT linguist believes they demonstrate that human speech evolved as Darwin thought.
Homo Erectus Had Skillfully Designed Tools

Feb. 23, 2013 from News to Know
Homo erectus had style and design of their tools down to a science.
In-Depth Article
How Did We Get So Smart?

Aug. 11, 2012 from Answers in Depth
Noticing the intellectual reputation of Neanderthals, it’s worth recalling how a person’s worldview colors his interpretation of data about human origins.
Book Chapter
2.8 The Essential Nature of Man (OB8)

July 26, 2012 from Did God Use Evolution?
It is impossible to understand human nature apart from biblical revelation.
Teeth Track Early Agricultural Society

June 2, 2012 from News to Know
Teeth track patrimony (property inherited through the male line) and prosperity in early agricultural society.
Reading Baboons

April 21, 2012 from News to Know
Bookish baboons said to demonstrate reading readiness pre-dated evolutionary emergence of humans.
South Africa’s Abstract Thought

March 3, 2012 from News to Know
South Africa’s “earliest known evidence of abstract thought”
Early Human Beds Discovered In South Africa

Dec. 24, 2011 from News to Know
Sleep tight and don’t let the bedbugs bite.
Arabian Artifacts Alter Evolutionary Map

Dec. 10, 2011 from News to Know
Nubian wares scramble human evolutionary map again.
Chimpanzees Are Excellent Listeners

July 9, 2011
Panzee passes her phonics test, and Nim stars in a movie.
High-Tech Tools

June 25, 2011 from News to Know
The human brain evolved because early humans developed technology?
Were Humans a Million Years Ago Britons?

July 10, 2010 from News to Know
What were humans like a million years ago—fur-wearing, meat-eating, tool-making Britons?
Shell Bits Display Intelligence of Ancient Humans

March 6, 2010 from News to Know
Bits of shell discovered in South Africa display the intelligence of “ancient” humans.
Evolutionary Anthropologists Finding Answers

Jan. 23, 2010
Two perennial questions for evolutionary anthropologists are how humans began walking upright and how humans began to make and use stone tools. For one team of scientists, the answers are intertwined.
Chimpanzees and Fire

Jan. 2, 2010 from News to Know
When it comes to fires, chimpanzees keep their cool. Does this “reveal a primitive hominid trait”?
Monkey Hear, Monkey Know

July 11, 2009 from News to Know
If you ain’t no good speaker of English, maybe you should talk to one o’ them thar monkeys to straight’n ya out.
Whistling Orangutan Clue to Language Evolution

Jan. 3, 2009 from News to Know
Is that the sound of a wolf whistle or an orangutan whistle we hear?