chair said:
6days said:
As Biblical creationist Christians we find it exciting to see the truth of God's Word being confirmed as we see the intelligence of Neandertals, the Babylonians and other people groups. Would you agree that these people groups may have been more intelligent than modern humans? "
I personally expect that ancient peoples, such as Babylonians or Egyptians were just as intelligent as we are.
Yes, I agree. They may even have been more intelligent. "Professor Gerald Crabtree, who heads a genetics laboratory at Stanford University in California, has put forward the iconoclastic idea that rather than getting cleverer, human intelligence peaked several thousand years ago."*
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...on-an-intellectual-and-emotional-8307101.html
Articles such as that mentioned in the OP are exciting when science helps confirm the Biblical model.
chair said:
I will not even venture a guess regarding Neanderthal- there is very little to go by.
Little to go on?
Little to go on has never stopped evolutionists in the past from declaring Neandertals dim witted. That declaration was not based on evidence but on the belief system that intelligence evolved. Fortunately science often corrects evolutionist beliefs. Neandertals were intelligent...quite possibly more intelligent than 'modern humans'.*(There is quite a bit to go on)
chair said:
I insist on quotations and links- so far you have failed to deliver.
Lets look at your 'challenge'.
CHAIR SAID"If you claim that "they (evolutionists) often portray ancient man as primitive thinkers", you need to brinf proof"
ANSWER to 'chairs' challenge...
We don't need to go back to ancient man to see racist thoughts from evolutionists on intellience. Darwin seemed to think intelligence was based on skin color and gender. Those racist ideas are still promoted by some prominent evolutionists.
* Nobel prize winner James Watson said in an interview "said there was no reason to think that races which had grown up in separate geographical locations should have evolved identically. He went on to say that although he hoped everyone was equal, “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...on-an-intellectual-and-emotional-8307101.html
* Evolutionists ( right here in TOL like Barbarian) have objected to Biblical creationists calling ancient man intelligent and cite the Flynn effect to say modern man is more intelligent.*
* Darwin became more racist in later years believing some people groups were more highly evolved. In Descent Of Man, Darwin said "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla."
* Scientific racism...It was prevalent from the time of Darwin until the end of the 2nd world war.* Darwinism was used to justify beliefs that other people groups were less highly evolved, and less intelligent.
Evolutionists have evolved. Many modern day evolutionists now admit, thanks to science, that ancient man had great intelligence.... as expected in the Biblical model. And, some go even a step further saying modern man may not be as intelligent as ancient civilizations....again, as expected in the Biblical model.