"Nature! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her. Without asking, or warning, she snatches us up into her circling dance, and whirls us on until we are tired, and drop from her arms. She is ever shaping new forms: what is, has never yet been; what has been, comes not again. Everything is new, and yet nothing but the old. We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her."About nature, J.W. von Goethe
Of course it is impossible to say anything against the theory of evolution. We have to consider though, that this theory was formed in 19th century. In this time the view of materialism emerged. In philosophy it was Auguste Comte, in social life Marx, who began to think about nature and man as absolutely und exclusively material. The great era of natural sciences dawned. Materialism is the point of view that sees everything as build from material substance, with no other components as a fundament. Soul and spirit are consequences of the material development, not origins.
You can see this materialism as related to the content, but there is another point of view possible. You could ask yourself the following question: Could it be the process of thinking itself that has become so material, that it can't think spiritual anymore? Couldn't it be the intellect itself that wants to think everything to be material, because it has materialized itself, because its constitution is that way?
Two categories form the foundation of materialistic thinking: cause and effect. Everything in the world is thought to be founded on causality. Our brain, our minds cannot think without the questions: What is the cause? What will be the effect?
On this conceptual thinking the theory of evolution also has been formed. Viewed from that point, evolution is development from minerals to living plants, to sensitive animals, to thinking human beings that develop the faculty of being aware that they think (homo sapiens sapiens). The development comes through cause and effect. Our brain thinks in that way, because of the fact that it simply knows no other ways. Mechanics develop through causal thinking.

We can try to think in another way. Maybe this kind of thinking has its strict limits, within a limited view. You can go out and walk to your friend, who lives a few streets away, and you don't see anything of what is happening around you. You don't see the blooming trees, the sun above - or you don't feel the rain on your hair, your clothes. In the same way a modern thinker or scientist has his path that he walks on, maybe without seeing the other possibilities that lie beyond his view. He has forgotten how one can look around while thinking. Maybe there are ways of understanding that don't count with his principles, and that are right nevertheless. The technician develops his products by trial and error. An artist could work in the same way and make his art.
But we have the possibility to think all these facts and concepts in another way. We can imagine that the artist has an image of a perfect work of art, a visual or a musical image, before he starts working on it. He doesn't start with the simple form and makes this more and more perfect, but the perfect image guides his hand. The most complicated, perfect form is the cause; the more imperfect work is the effect. He will try to approximate the perfect image, by performing with his best artistic faculties. Here the sequence changes radically. What lies in future becomes cause, and the effect is the cause itself.
"Heaven sometimes sends us beings who represent not humanity alone but divinity itself, so that taking them as our models and imitating them, our minds and the best of our intelligence may approach the highest celestial spheres. Experience shows that those who are led to study and follow the traces of these marvelous geniuses, even if nature gives them little or no help, may at least approach the supernatural works that participate in his divinity."
Giorgio Vasari on Leonardo da Vinci, The Lives of the Artists (1550)
The concept of development in our mind: Cause and effect? by Mieke Mosmuller