[Elsie]

They were people who only knew of a very small part of the total world...

And we are SO much smarter now!

Here's another for you:

"Pride goes before a fall."

It comes from here -

NIV Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.

[Thatcherite]

"They were people who only knew of a very small part of the total world..."

And we are SO much smarter now!

Not at all. You appear to be confusing ignorance with stupidity. They were just as smart as we are. But they didn't have the access to knowledge and education that we have. That was their misfortune, not stupidity. They didn't know that there are upwards of 20 million species, many of which have highly particular requirements for diet and environment. This is hardly surprising for people who were essentially nomadic shepherds who wandered a very tiny area of the world. It is instructive that there is little sense of a wider world outside the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean in the Bible.