Human Skull Sketch

This photo is of a poorly drawn sketch of a human skull, clearly done by someone with no artistic talent whatsoever. Admiring the human skull and sketching it out is a process that for many people would lead to many internal questions. For years humans have searched for some type of designer, who constructed their race and the natural world around them. Alex Rosenberg, in his article “Why I am a Naturalist,” has an explanation for these types of people. Rosenberg of course believes in the theory or mindset of Naturalistic Philosophy, the idea that everything in the natural world came from the natural world itself. He claims that in our quest for finding this type of creator or designer we are being “fooled.” He claims that Darwin’s evolutionary processes of random variation and natural selection have shaped the world around us, rather than some designer. The context under which I came across the skull I have sketched would seem to support his idea. The various other types of skulls around the room that day, and the differences between them, some more pronounced than others, suggests he has a point. These skulls suggest that the journey to the true Human, Homo sapien skull was done by millions of years of refinement. Millions of years of random variation and natural selection. Humans certainly have improved on many of the less desirable qualities of their ancestors. Where some ancestors have pronounced ridges where their brow is, modern day humans have a flat forehead, which allows room for the frontal lobe, an important part of the human brain. This sketch, along with the context under which it was drawn in, do a great job supporting Rosenbergs argument.

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