THE ORIGIN OF HUMAN CREATIVITY - Kenneth C Herrmann - September 1980

Kenneth C Herrmann

Inherited traits go back to our most ancient forebears. Artistic and musical ability, poetry, prose, even language itself, all reflect a peculiarly human attribute called creativity. Philosophy, imagination, speculation, and the theory of evolution too-these betray man's true origin as a carbon (dust and ashes) copy of his Creator! Man is different. He imagines; then he goes on to create in words, in music, in gold and silver, in concrete and steel, the images of his mind. Geologist Kenneth Crandall expressed it in Chevron World, 1979, Spring issue "Creativity [is]…a human resource- no other living thing has such an ability to create new things, to construct an image in their mind of something they have never seen." Man seeks a solution, fails time after time, then it is "back to the drawing board…to dream some more with a new set of observations and criteria, hopeful to create a new concept to explain and solve our problems." - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library