In those days a prince’s vocabulary was as inadequate to describe deep scientific facts as a shepherd’s was.
There is some scientific evidence that human intelligence has been declining over the past 20,000 years or so if you correlate brain size with intelligence.
Oh yes it is SO much harder to describe ‘one thing changed over time into another thing’ than it was to say that ‘each thing was created to reproduce after it’s own kind’. You have definitely convinced me. ;)
Though I wouldn’t correlate brain size with intelligence, even within a single species,
there is a lot of evidence that ancient man had a lot more going on, and that our present level of genetic hardiness is inferior to those of the past. This is consistent with the biblical account of history, that we were created genetically “perfect” and drifted away from that generation by generation after the fall.