I say this in every one of these threads:
"Micro-evolution" IS evolution. Why is it so difficult to understand that when you spread out small, incremental steps over a very long period of time, large changes can occur?
By the way, how do you know that other animals don't have some form of abstract thinking, spiritual awareness, etc? Just because they don't manifest them in complex language doesn't mean they don't have some rudimentary "minds". Surely you don't believe that animals don't communicate with each other, and with us. Watch your pets interact with each other; they most certainly are communicating.
For the same reason that Brownian motion never gets you anywhere.