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Is there any indication of increased intellegence over time within the Human species?

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joshua221 
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08-30-2005 1:09 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by jar
08-05-2005 12:32 PM

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First, I'm not sure there is a good definition of intellegence so as a working assumption I would describe intellegence as the capability to imagine a new way of performing a task.
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It seems to me that the opposite is happening. No new ideas have really been thought of since the Enlightenment, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, spread of Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity, and the time of Jesus. It's like we don't need to think about life anymore, we can rely on the money in our pockets.
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08-30-2005 1:23 PM 		Reply to: Message 64 by jar
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The TOE, double-helix, theory of gravity, general relativity, psychology, antibiotics, rubic-cube.
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Progress, not increased intelligence, although I admit I was wrong to say that -->
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(No new ideas have really been thought of since the Enlightenment, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, spread of Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity, and the time of Jesus.)
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