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Obviously the creationist answer is God and this just turns into a evidence of God thread. But we don't need to identify what the cause of the difference is to identify that there is a difference that biology alone seems inadequate to answer.
We are biologically unique but made up of the same biolgical stuff so why are humans so special? I'm suggesting this points to answer beyond biology because very clearly we are different yet biologically are nothing special.
We can't say it hasn't, only that if it did it's very probably extinct. However, as I mentioned, we do see species that are not closely related to us - some not even vertebrate - showing less sophisticated forms of our specialist traits.
Biologically, we are similar to other mammals. We are made of the same stuff, in the same way, and have the same basic structures as other mammals. But species are all different, what distinguishes us from other primates is the specialisation of our brains, which are a biological feature.
We're not the only ones with big brains but humans are still markedly different. Biology of course explains the biological components but is unable to explain anything outside of itself. Because we are the only ones operating at these levels that no other species is known to cross over into it can suggest an influence that biology is blinded to.
Why "blinded" to? Evolutionary biology is not the 'science of everything' and doesn't pretend to be. It might just be an issue to be considered by a different scientific discipline.
What specifically are you referring to?
A narrow veiw of Scripture explains that. But what scripture identifies is a plausible source, "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..." The details of the account my be goal driven and less about an accurate retelling and more about identifying the source. But in that first verse it would show us that God is preexistent to his creation and at the very least means God is outside of the natural world ergo God cannot be explained by the natural world. Of course we don't need the bible to tell us this as the idea alone of God demands it where something like the speghetti monster seems to be defined within a natural world sandbox.
Biology or science at large cannot see outside of itself, so science is unable to prove or disprove God. But the boundaries it draws creates a space outside of the boundaries.
But, God can be "experienced" inside the natural world. Ergo (somehow I like that word), God can be known in the natural world.
Science is a vacuum with a goal of only finding answeres that can be explained in it's vacuum. It is blinded to anything else. Science cannot prove God, this is true, but it also cannot disprove God.
