[somemoreequalthanothers]

the new inhabitants of Easter Island must have begun hacking down trees almost immediately, building the gigantic monuments and stone heads

The thought that the people intelligent enough to create and erect the monuments were so stupid as to render their existence obsolete is a real stretch.

[Mount Athos]

It's not hard to conceive at all. Also they were not one happy tribe, there was serious internal strife with vandalism of rival clan statues

[rock58seg]

The thought that the people intelligent enough to create and erect the monuments were so stupid as to render their existence obsolete is a real stretch.

Of course you can turn that around....The thought that the people intelligen t stupid enough to create and erect the monuments were would not be so stupid as to render their existence obsolete is a real stretch.