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

So how is thinking we are more intelligent than people in the past not more arrogant? "He who exalts himself will be humbeled and he who humbles himself will be exalted." I hardly think that boasting is a sign of superior intelligence. It's the easiest thing in the world to do. So no, we are not only not more intelligent, we are closer to annihilating ourselves than ever before! I agree with the scientists who say we are in a state of decay which is evidenced by people who call themseves intellignet thinking that we descended from apes. That theory sadly epitomizes our degree of decay.

And how is it rational to believe that fallible humans can create infallible truths? That's why the truth can only come from an infallible source because the truth is, by definition, without error. Yet man is, by definition, with error. So whatever infallible truths man discovers are God's creation. When one agrees with God, he will always be right. But when he disagrees with God, he will always be wrong because infallible truths can only come from an infallible source...unless of course you are saying that scientists are infallible. If not, then why defend their theories so vehemently, particularly when they contradict reality? Animals and humans do not interbreed. That is a fact. So it is also a fact that humans cannot be the descendants of animals. All rational people can see that.This message has been edited by Carico, 12-12-2005 02:23 PM

I responded to a statement made by some in this thread concerning rationality. Was his post off-topic? If so, then why am I called to account for responding to it and he was not? If not, then why can't I respond to it? Or am I supposed to blindly believe it? This is unbelievable bias.

And by the way, this thread is about human intelligence which was the topic of my post. I explained in a rational way why fallible humans cannot understand infallible truths.

No human baby born today has any more intellignece than those who lived before him. He learns what he is taught just like all babies before him. Only the difference is that previous babies did not have the benefit of as many past minds as the babies born today. No one is born with knowledge. It has to be learned. Yet I doubt that most people today in our society know how to milk a cow or how to exist without electricity. Nor do most people do all the claculations that the minds in previous generations did in order to form the inventions we have today. So calling people who lived long before we do today, "primitive" or less intelligent is erroneous. They simply didn't have the benefit of generations of minds to accumulate the inofrmation we have today.