“...portrays humanity in early history as “an abandoned baby on a doorstep,”...”
Why is that these “thinkers” who are portrayed as the best and the brightest always think that people who have gone before are unenlightened?
“Why is that these “thinkers” who are portrayed as the best and the brightest always think that people who have gone before are unenlightened?”
Usually by looking at what they did and thought. Future generations will look at us the same way.