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<blockquote data-quote="newusername" data-source="post: 5467240" data-attributes="member: 562064">We have to define technology before we decide when we started having and using it.&nbsp; My engineering texts are quite adamant that technology has existed for millenias and there is a general consensus that our implementation of technology is now greater and growing at a greater rate than ever in the past.&nbsp; Following the timeline of advances they call technology, it is hard to argue that.I would say that we are much smarter than we used to be.&nbsp; We have evolved intellectually at a great rate since the Age of Enlightenment, thanks to exactly the type of rational thinking that religion religates evil and useless.Please note that I consider &quot;smarter&quot; to mean that we know more about ourselves the things around us than we did in the past.&nbsp; I don&#039;t see how you can argue that, so I wonder what definition of &quot;smarter&quot; is being used here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="newusername, post: 5467240, member: 562064"] We have to define technology before we decide when we started having and using it. My engineering texts are quite adamant that technology has existed for millenias and there is a general consensus that our implementation of technology is now greater and growing at a greater rate than ever in the past. Following the timeline of advances they call technology, it is hard to argue that. I would say that we are much smarter than we used to be. We have evolved intellectually at a great rate since the Age of Enlightenment, thanks to exactly the type of rational thinking that religion religates evil and useless. Please note that I consider "smarter" to mean that we know more about ourselves the things around us than we did in the past. I don't see how you can argue that, so I wonder what definition of "smarter" is being used here. [/QUOTE]

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