Ancient Technology
Because of the saturation in the
teaching of "millions of years" in our culture the resulting
"Evolutionary Mindset" causes us to consider those who came before us
as less intelligent. The farther back we
go, the less intelligent we consider people to have been. But if we are to take God's Word on the
matter, it is reasonable to conclude the opposite. The first people who existed must have been
perhaps the most intelligent and degeneration in intelligence has occurred
since. The great advantage we have today
is not intelligence, but accumulation of knowledge.
Consider what has been discovered
about the accomplishments of ancient cultures:
Brain
surgery Creation, 23(4) Sep-Nov 2001 p.7 Incans
Dentistry Creation,
23(4) Sep-Nov 2001 p.7
High quality
steel Creation, 23(3) Jun-Aug 2001 p.9
Astronomical
calculations Creation, 23(3) Jun-Aug 2001 p.9
Mayans -Venus phases calculated to 1/400th of a second.
Pyramid
Builders used kites to lift stone
Creation 24(2)
Mar-May 2002 p7 - New Scientist 27Oct01,p.43
Neolithic home builders were engineers
Creation 24(2)
Mar-May 2002 p.8
The Times
www.thetimes.co.uk 26 Sep01
Neandertal
Super Glue
Neandertals glued their wooden axe handles to flint knives
by a super-strong glue made from birch pitch that would be difficult for even
modern manufacturing plants to duplicate.
Creation 24(3)
Jun-Aug 2002 p.7
Arcitectural
genius -Incas:Machupichu
Moody videotape:Empty Cities.
Astronomical
calculator -Ancient Greeks -approximately 0 BC Called Antikythera
Mechanism
“Gateway
to the Sun” temple in Mexico
Carved out of a single block of volcanic rock that weighed
100 tons which was moved and set in place.
Roman
temple in Lebanon stands on a single foundation stone weighing more
than 2000 tons!
We don't have the technology to move that today by any
practical method!
(From: an Answers In Genesis (AIG) e-mail and “The Mystery
of Ancient Man” on the AIG web site.)