49 starting point for acquiring knowledge. Without this basic worldview, we could not arrive at any knowledge whatsoever. To demonstrate, let us assume — for the sake of argument — that mankind evolved from unintelligible matter into a state of intelligible consciousness. “Evolutionary Adam” would have no basic framework for acquiring knowledge because no God designed one for him. As such, the world around him would have been rationally inaccessible to his understanding because he would have no built-in presuppositions to guide and structure any of his encounters. Thus, evolutionary Adam could not know from personal experience alone whether he truly exists as a separate, thinking “thing” apart from everything else, or whether those objects in the Garden are distinct from, or are mere extensions of, himself. And, assuming that these objects of nature do exist separately apart from Adam, do they — and Adam — have continuous existence over time? — are these objects the same that he experienced five minutes ago or even five days ago? If the first human was mentally a blank slate as posited by evolutionists — Adam would have no intuitive understanding of causality, natural order, and regularity. And without these presuppositions, he could not organize or classify the data of his observations because he would not be able to identify any intelligent, uniform pattern to his experiences. These fundamental assumptions would already have had to have been present in Adam’s mind before he could arrange the facts of creation and establish a foundation of knowledge for further development. These axioms of knowledge, then, were not first discovered by his investigation because no investigation would have made sense without them. Now, in contrast to evolutionary Adam, let us consider “biblical Adam” whom God commanded to subdue and cultivate the earth. This ordinance would have been impossible to fulfill unless God first supplied Adam with those necessary intellectual tools enabling him to analyze and understand his environment. For starters, in order for God to communicate to Adam, the latter would already need to know language and speech patterns prior to receiving this special revelation. Indeed, the Bible clearly indicates that Adam was fully functional as a rational being from the moment of his creation in adult form. Thus, he did not have to discover from experience that one must eat, drink, and breathe in order to survive — nor accidently experience submersion to “learn” that humans cannot breathe under water! Rather, what we find from the first recorded act of dominion is a high degree of rational sophistication in Adam: his taxonomic naming (or
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