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

[okasha]

88. I didn't say they were wiser than "we" are.

I said that Iron Age people knew more about science than you know about Bronze or Iron Age people.

Do you think the zigurrats of Mesopotamia and the Egyptian pryarmids were somehow built without some knowledge of physics?

Or that gravity-fed irrigation happened all by itself?

Or that the priests of Amun correctly predicted the annual inundation without meteorology and some astronomy thrown in?

Or that the Romans invented concrete without knowing some relevant chemistry (and again, physics)?

Or, coming forward in time to the Mayas, that an essentially Chalcolithic society built observatories and charted the phases of Venus and the courses of all the planets visible to the naked eye?

And that's a bare sample. Your assertion that ancient peoples knew nothing about how the universe works is simply wrong.

And then, of course, you shift the whole discussion to other issues entirely. So: Women in the United States are still disadvantaged relevant to men. We don't have equal pay for equal work. The American people have still to elect a woman president. American men still visit prostitutes, who are frequently no better than slaves to their pimps. American corporations run sweat-shops in Mexico and Pakistan, usually employing young women at outrageously low salaries. Etc. Etc.

And nope, Iron Age folk knew the world was a sphere, or at least curved. Forget the fairy tales about Columbus and how "everybody" thought he'd sail off the edge of the world. The surprise was that there were two whole continents between Europe and East Asia.