Was pre-historic man really unintelligent?

Any time we hear reference to "early man," he is spoken of as an ignorant, language-developing cave dweller. Yet what is not promoted is what the evidence truly reveals; highly skilled craftsman who demonstrated a high degree of science and technology and built monumental structures, painted intricate works of art and organized complex cultures.

Evolution teaches the further back in history we go, the more primitive man was. If this were true, then also the further back we go, evidence should show a gradual decline in man's intelligence as we move closer to the ape's. This concept has been brainwashed into our children who have since grown up believing such dogma to be true. Even our churches believe this despite the Bible teaching man, created in God's image, has always been intelligent.

Over the years man has made discoveries and invented things, but this is knowledge passed on and built upon. It's not retained and stored by an individual. If it's not written down we forget about it. If it's not on the map we forget it was there. In this way, technology can increase within a society, but this is not because people become more intelligent.

Genesis 4:21-22 tells us just a short time after creation people were already inventing things such as musical instruments, and metalworking. By the time of the flood, man had a high-level of technical know-how that enabled him to build an Ark. We don't know exactly how high but we do have some clues to work from.

In Genesis 11 the Bible records that man built a huge city full of towers in what is believed to be the fertile valley of Mesopotamia near present-day Iraq. In fact, evolutionists have been unable to ignore this fact so much so that they too acknowledge this area as the cradle of civilization.

These towers were most likely ziggurats and some perhaps pyramids, and most likely resembled those still standing in the area today know as present-day Babylon. These structures are highly impressive and feature huge stones, which we can't even today explain how they were built.

Similar types of pyramids are found in ancient civilizations all over the world confirming the Bible’s story of the Tower of Babel. Evolutionists teach that each culture devised, by chance, the same style of building independently. Creationists say these structures were built by descendants of the Tower of Babel who took with them their science and technology and continued to build these great monuments long after God had confused the language. This is why archaeologists today continue to find pyramids and ziggurats on nearly every continent.

As with any group of people in society today, those that existed at the time of the Tower of Babel would have had a diverse range of skills. However, when God divided the groups by language, the broad pool of knowledge would have been divided as well. The original groups that became, for example, the civilizations of the Egyptians and Mayans obviously included people skilled in civil engineering, building, and so on, as evidenced by the rapid establishment of their cultures. Other groups would have lacked such knowledge.

Since the post-Flood world was much harsher, those scattering to harsher regions would have chose shelter in caves due to their providing a better quality of protection. However, despite what evolutionists promote on T.V. commercials and movies today, this did not mean they were primitive or unintelligent. Over the past 50 years, scientists have made numerous findings ranging from beautiful cave paintings of enormous detail to ‘stone-age’ musical instruments revealing a high level of understanding and musical ability.(1)

The pyramids of Egypt themselves were built by the descendants of Babel, which would date their construction somewhere around 2,100 BC. There seems to be no evidence showing how the knowledge to build pyramids was developed. Let's read a quote from a known evolutionist:

‘There is no evidence whatever of any technological breakthrough in the methods of quarrying or cutting stone which might account for the onset of pyramid building. All the tools and techniques used by the pyramid builders were in existence well before their time.’(2)

The archaeological evidence suggests that rather than developing slowly and painfully, as is normal with human societies, the civilization of Ancient Egypt, like that of the Olmecs, emerged all at once and fully formed. Indeed, the period of transition from primitive to advanced society appears to have been so short that it makes no kind of historical sense. This fact does not help the theologian of evolution! And despite this being the case, anthropologists and archaeologists alike continue to ignore the evidence, which confirms man has always been naturally intelligent.

‘Technological skills that should have taken hundreds or even thousands of years to evolve were brought into use almost overnight — and with no apparent antecedents whatever.’(3)

We also find evidence of intellectual decay. That is, the early pyramids display a high level of science and technology where as the quality of the younger ones declines to a point where they were no-longer built. And today we stand in awe without an explanation for their construction.

One evolutionist reports:

‘The pyramid age had come to an end, having lasted for a little more than a century. Pyramids were still being erected for about a thousand years, but they rapidly became smaller and shoddier, and it is quite clear that with the third Giza pyramid the zest had gone out of pyramid building forever.’(4)

And it is important to note the length of time these buildings have stood. What’s the possibility, without reconditioning, any of our modern day buildings withstanding such punishment from mother nature? Keep in mind their exposure to earthquakes, tornadoes, and high winds.

Building a pyramid would require an absolutely level base for its foundation. To do this Egyptians would have first cut channels into the underlying rock and filled those channels with water. They then would have inserted rods into the channels and marked off the water line – thus establishing a true level. These are not the actions of cave dwellers trying to understand what a ‘fire’ is but rather the actions of highly skilled men with a natural and instinctive understanding of what we today refer to as the physical sciences.

Other evidences of early mans high level of intelligence can be found 13,000 feet up near the Bolivian shore of Lake Titicaca in South America. There lies the ancient city of Tiahuanaco. Spanish treasure hunters in the sixteenth century scoffed at the local Indian lore that spoke of Tiahuanaco springing up very rapidly by unknown giants shortly after a great Flood. Today all that is left of this majestic ruin are stones and statues scattering the landscape on this windswept plateau.

One writer commented:

‘… the best engineers of today still ask themselves whether they could cut and move huge masses of rock such as those used to build the city. The giant blocks look almost as though a die were used to cut them — a task achieved with none of the resources of modern technology’(5) and ‘… the architects who designed and built them were men of genius.’(6)

Archaeologists studying ancient civilizations often report being ‘amazed’ or ‘surprised’ at the level of man's skill in the distant past. Actually they're surprised only because their evolutionary beliefs have brainwashed them into the expectations of finding evidence of ‘primitive’ men, not intelligent ones.

The ancient Mayans were meticulous timekeepers. They knew the absolute length of the solar year to be 365.2420 days long. Astronomers did not know this until very recently (astronomers today calculate the year to be 365.2422 days). Moreover, they also calculated that 405 full moons occurred in a period of 11,960 days where as modern research has confirmed it to be 11,959.888 days.

These minute margins of error, confirmed only with the use of modern technology, reveal an amazing degree of accuracy on the part of these ancient cultures.

Interestingly, considering the Mayans’ obsession with accurate timekeeping, the Mayan calendar apparently began from a creation date about 3114 BC. The Mayans also excelled at mathematics, using a positional system, similar to today’s, that was less clumsy than that used by the Romans in Europe.

And finally, in 1900 off the coast of Antikythera, Greek divers discovered the wreck of an ancient ship, which sunk around 65 BC. Divers recovered a device comprised of an extremely complex system of precision mechanical metal gears and engraved scale calibrations. It is theorized to be some type of navigational computational device, which reveals the intelligence of its inventors.

Time after time discoveries prove man has always been intelligent and creative and never do the finds confirm evolutions idea of man existing as hunter-gatherers during the stone age for 100,000 years while slowly and continually evolving into today's intelligent human. Furthermore, evolution says that during this time the world's population would have been between one and 10 million. And since we find them during this time to be burying their dead with artifacts, the numbers say they would have buried at least 4 billion people during this time. Thus, we should be stumbling over graves weekly but we don't. They're not there. Instead we have only found a few thousand, which offers more evidence of a short earth history.(7,8) Moreover, we should in addition find hundred's of thousands of year’s worth of evolved writings but we don't find those either. Instead we find writings that factually date back about 4,500 years, which would be in harmony with the Bible's story of a global flood wiping out all records prior to this time. If man were evolving for 100,000 years, why would man wait a thousand centuries before using the same skills to record history?