In that sense, there is a language hidden in the Bible — a language that only the greatest minds understand.

Another example: the story of Adam and Eve. This is a tale about growing up. Everyone who has paid attention has noticed the moment in life when you suddenly become aware of your sexuality. This happens in a single second. It drops into your consciousness, just like an apple falls from a tree. You suddenly become self-aware in that very second — aware that you, in a sense, are naked.

With great power comes great responsibility
Why knowledge is more important than evolution theory

The mistake you make is this: you think we evolved into humans with the capacity to communicate simply because of our large brains.

If you look at evolution theory alone, you get something like this:
Mechanical features (brain) → knowledge transfer → ideas

What you don’t understand is that it also works the other way around. By exchanging ideas, we literally change how we evolve, because the people with the right knowledge determine how the physical world — our hardware — develops.

Let’s take an indirect example. The people who possessed the knowledge of how to make fire influenced our evolutionary path: they caused humans to evolve into creatures with larger brains. In that sense, knowledge can literally change the way humans look. So the combination of obtaining knowledge and transferring it is more important for human development than evolution theory alone.

Imagine you are the first person to discover how to make fire. You have a choice: do you tell the rest of the tribe or not?
If you do, you indirectly change the way all humans will look, because you increase the likelihood that we evolve with smaller jaws and bigger brains.

Person A:
“I think you don’t really understand the theory of evolution. Knowledge and the transfer of knowledge are much more important, and you don’t see that in DNA. At every moment in time, different knowledge is needed.”

Person B:
“You don’t understand it at all. You’re talking about cultural evolution, but that is only possible because you evolved into something that can communicate.”

Person A:
“The theory of evolution is almost insignificant in explaining why some things survive and others don’t. A plant also influences the environment it lives in — it works both ways. It doesn’t just live in an environment.”

The invention of fire gave us smaller jaws and bigger brains.
This means that if you are the first one to discover fire and master it, you indirectly change the way all humans look.
For a moment, you are a higher power. With your idea and your skill, you have changed the physical world—our bodies—for good.
That is why ideas can shape physical reality.
That is why higher powers exist.
Back in the day, when people believed in different gods, they weren’t so wrong after all.
This is the circle you could call creation: we create our own physical bodies over time through our actions.

Evolution theory is a natural way to temper this idea a little
You could say: it only works if large groups of people actually cook and outcompete others who don’t, in terms of the number of children they have. You could also say that the fact someone could master fire is the result of evolution. This is, of course, partly true.
But some people recognize skill in others—the elegance of obtaining knowledge, the courage to try, and the mastery of a skill. They respect that in each other.

V

PS, a small nuance: the beauty of fire is, of course, that it already existed. It was first observed, but someone learned to master it.