Whether at Chauvet or Somewhere Else, Something Happened

Peter Robinson is the uncommonly charming host of the Hoover Institution vidcast Uncommon Knowledge. Writing at Ricochet, he describes the experience he and Mrs. Robinson had watching Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the thirty-thousand-year-old cave paintings at Chauvet.

Robinson cites a passage from Chesterton on evolution, to the effect that with the appearance of art in the historical record, "Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is t...