Too Simple to Be Wrong: Atheism's Bronze-Age Goat Herder Conceit

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78. Let's suppose a time machine was invented. We then sent an average ...

college educated individual who grew up and lived all his life in a large urban area such as NYC back in time to a Bronze Age desert without anything except the clothes on his back and possibly a couple of Bronze Age implements such as a knife and a bow.

Could he survive and prosper?

Suppose then you took a Bronze Age nomad and snatched him forward in time to a modern desert. Would he survive and prosper?

I would suspect that if the modern day individual I described had a fair amount of desert survival training he could. The desert nomad might be able to live in the desert but would have a difficult time understanding what was happening if he encountered modern civilization.

While we have far more scientific knowledge than those who lived in the Bronze Age or the Middle Ages they were as intelligent as we are.

Here's another challenge. Take a similar sized population of modern day people who live in Egypt as were present in the Old Kingdom of Egypt. Could they build a Great Pyramid using the tools that were available at that time? Of course they would be required to grow food using the same methods as were used over 4000 years ago and deliver it to the pyramid builders without using modern equipment.