antikythera mechanism (from about a 2000 year old shipwreck)
antikythera mechanism (from about a 2000 year old shipwreck)
I once read that some archaeologist had calculated that the average IQ among ancient Greeks of the Golden Age was around 120.
Considering all the brilliant men produced by a city of never more than 100,000, that makes sense to me.
Why, thank you.
“A consequence of evolutionary thinking is that ancient people were intellectually inferior to moderns.”
The evolutionary scientists have painted themselves into a corner on this one. According to their dating, we have had modern humans, anatomically indistinguishable from ourselves, for at least 100,000 years. Yet, by their same dating, they must insist that we were using the same rudimentary stone tools, with little technological innovation, for nearly that entire time period.
Now, it’s true that modern men can subsist with stone age tools alone, even to this day. However, we only see that happening with isolated pockets, who don’t have to compete with other humans, and who live in a stable, unchanging environment. We can’t posit the same conditions for man, worldwide, for 100,000 years.
At which time the democrat party was formed....and we all no what happened then!!!
bfl
I think that ancient man was, on average, smarter. People then had to use their wits to survive - there was no welfare, etc. to cushion the impact of sheer stupidity. I believe that the movie, “Idiocracy” is prophetic, with large reductions in average intelligence already evident throughout the population.
So question in the future how will we be able to distinguish created life from naturally evolved life?
Because in the far future the only test I can think for created versus evolved is to look back at the fossil record for a pattern of emergence of new species. Oddly in that test i would expect created species should come in burst vs evolves species should come at a steady pace
We stand on the shoulders of giants. The closer in time we get to creation, the greater the intelligence, the less genetic mutation and drift.
People were smart enough to invent things like the wheel, etc. Today we think they’re no-brainers, but at one point it took a brain to come up with those things. And they didn’t have the benefit of a few thousand years of accumulated human knowledge.
Just read what was written in the past. Our founding fathers wrote a lot, and much of it is difficult to interpret for modern readers. A good example is the Federalist Papers.
Then, go read the Bible. The apostle Paul wrote his epistles and freely quoted the Old Testament, likely from memory (especially while he was in prison).
Just because their technology wasn’t advanced like it is now, doesn’t mean they were stupid. In some ways I think modern devices detract from our intellect simply be being such a distraction. We don’t take the time to really ponder things like we should.
records that people began with high intelligence and had great capabilities.
Also wasn’t there just a discovery that there are multiple information patterns in DNA and we have only seen one?
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