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Talk:Counterexamples to an Old Earth (view source)
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, 01:37, June 17, 2011response to Adam and Eve
:::Adam and Eve were a lot smarter (before the fall) than IQ tests could possibly measure. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 19:34, 15 June 2011 (EDT)
:::Adam and Eve were a lot smarter (before the fall) than IQ tests could possibly measure. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 19:34, 15 June 2011 (EDT)
::::I am unaware of any part of Genesis that states that Adam and Eve were '''astronomically''' smarter than humans today. The point I was making above, to restate, is that if human intelligence could drop so quickly in the 20th century, and extrapolation backwards is justified, then humans just a few hundred years ago or less, perhaps just a hundred years ago depending on what data you look at, must have been extraordinary geniuses, and that is simply not factual by any historical standards. Thus, I fail to see your point: the bible does not corroborate your statement and even if it did, it would still suggest that human intelligence is declining by a nonlinear function, thus linear extrapolation, as the article implies, is not justified.--[[User:Mike127|Mike127]] 21:37, 16 June 2011 (EDT)
I feel it necessary to point out that if the extrapolation of human intelligence backwards in time is not a justifiable proof of young Earth, this does not mean that this is in some way a proof of old Earth theories. The concept is simply flawed and cannot delineate one theory from another, thus it should not be included on this list.--[[User:Mike127|Mike127]] 21:37, 16 June 2011 (EDT)