Paul's 500 witnesses.

[RoadRunner79]

Yes Drich, we are smarter, we have a space telescope. We use computers, we put humans on the moon, we use cell phones. Even you are smarter than the writers, but for say you are still stuck on their bad claims. 

None of the NT writers, not even Muslims or Jews or Buddhists or Hindus had any of our modern knowledge. Nobody knew what an electron, proton or neutron were back then. Nobody knew what DNA was back then. 

I am sorry someone sold you an old book of myth Drich, but that was then, this is now. It was understandable back then when people wrote those bad claims, and others fell for them, but they didn't know any better back then.

Not 'we' sport you.

Like before. If I took you into Paul's world and left you there with nothing more than the cloths on your back could you survive?

Again intelligence is not about trivial facts of what 'we' collectively know. Intelligence is the ability to learn and quickly adapt.

Your last statement here, I agree with completely. I think that assuming those in the past where less intelligent is a big mistake. I've seen some machines from the early 1900's which are absolutely brilliant. They had to be, because they had less. Also, in some ways while we do have more information readily available than ever, intelligence may be decreasing, because things are easier.