[DittoJed2]

What an elitist assumption regarding the intelligence of early man. They built the pyramids, moved stones that engineers of today can't, apparently had electricity, knew how to work well with metal, made musical instruments, had all sorts of medical innovations, and learned quickly how to write. Yet, they had to be given a weeeelly weeeely simple story of creation because they just couldn't undoostand it. In fact, God even lied to them by telling them that He created them from the dust of the ground, took Eve from Adam's side, put them in a garden, etc., Somehow even tricked them into buying a bogus genealogy back to Adam and some goofy story about an Ark. Too bad when He started Evolution He couldn't just make intelligent creatures that would understand the deeper mysteries of the joys of coming from primodial soup.

[Doctor Stochastic]

...moved stones that engineers of today can't...

Why do you think that? More that 35 years ago, I watched (on TV) some people move a 121 ton object a long distance. Then they shot it all the way to the Moon.

[RightWingNilla]

What an elitist assumption regarding the intelligence of early man.

They had just as much natural intelligence as we do today, but the background knowledge to understand certain concepts was just not there. Men 2000 years in the future would similarly have a lot of work to do with us.

Could it have been explained to them? Sure, but the Bible would have been a million pages long and the moral and spiritual message would have been lost.

[RightWingNilla]

He created them from the dust of the ground....

....coming from primodial soup

Is there such a difference between these two humble origins?

[Junior]

Not intelligence... knowledge. There is a major difference.