(May 10, 2017 at 5:57 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote:(May 7, 2017 at 2:17 pm)KUSA Wrote: I'm not sure if humans are actually smarter than our ancestors 2000 years ago. We certainly are much better informed. No doubt about that.
We're definitely better informed and no more or less smarter.
Intelligence is innate.
I'm no smarter than I was when I was a little kid. I just learned stuff.
That made no sense. If you are born healthy your brain is constantly building new neurological pathways as you grow to an adult. A newborn cannot suddenly be as smart as an adult. If your brain didn't grow as you did you would not be able to learn things.
Intelligence is an evolutionary attribute, it is our species ability to be curious, but that does not make a newborn as in individual having the ability to adapt to all information and understand it at birth. Learning takes time, you don't have adult knowledge as an infant.
