At first evolution was thought to have occurred by changes acquired by habit, use, disuse or a change in environment being inherited by offspring. But after years of fruitless research, this theory has been largely abandoned. Mutations are basically changed offspring resulting from damaged genes in the parent caused by high level radiation. But mutations are most unlikely events and the vast majority of, if not all, mutations are harmful. Artificially induced mutations in fruit flies cause wilted wings, short wings, curled wings, stumpy wings - all useless to the fly.
Mutations produce chaos, deformity and disability to already well organized animals.
The lack of a mechanism for evolution has caused some evolutionists to suggest that evolution occurred in steps - e.g. a feather suddenly appeared on the offspring of a reptile. Now, lets go back to the Bible. In the New Testament, the word translated as soul is based on the same principle of breath and of animal sentience. So man has a higher destiny. God created a being who could respond to His love and who could, if he chose, obey His creator.