Who are smarter, scientists now or scientists from the past?

Question

I may think scientists from the past. Just wonder how the found out that the sun did not move but the planets. They did not have computer like now to find out that. Albert E. did not need a computer to find out the theory about relativity. The use of atoms to create bombs did not need of computers.

Galileo did not need a computer to discover the many secrets of the space. How did scientist build the computer and the web? Using math. Which was mostly developed many many years ago. Before scientist were not manipulated by politics, now they are.

We all now that math is the base for every technology advancement. WWW is base on number and codes. The way computers work is based on math, so why do atheists say scientist in the past were less smart?

How many of you do math without a calculator? USA school let you even take test with a calculator. They know you may not do it without one.

Answer 1

Intelligence lies with the individual not the century.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Ah! Both those in the past for being able to achieve the discoveries they did without the use of technology; but also those that are here because with the use of technology they are able to better explain what scientist in the past had a hard time explaining.
Or better yet provide more proof of their ideas

Answer 4

The science today is much more advanced, since it has the work of these earlier scientists to build on. While true that Einstein did not need supercomputers, Einstein was working with observations of atoms and molecules.

In today's world, if you want to bust open neutrinos or quarks, you do need that supercollider. Without it, it is all just speculation.

Answer 5

Youre not too bright are you?

It doesnt take much to figure out that the planets revolve around the sun. In fact, it was explained when they were trying to understand why Mars appeared to zigzag in the sky. There was only one explanation - that it was caused when the earth was passing past Mars in its orbit, making it appear to move backwards and then forwards again.

If you cannot see that we have made huge technological advancements in the past 100 years over what humans accomplished in the past 10000 years, then you are blind and deluded.

Answer 6

It depends on what past are you referring to.

But yes, I think the scientists of today are generally less smart than the scientists of, say, the ends of the XIXth Century and beginnings of the XXth.

Besides, in the Middle Ages or in the Ancient times there were real geniuses.

I think that the cause of this going backwards is due to a lack of education on discipline and effort.

Answer 7

that's an easy one. how can you say past when back then yes the information was brand new but now students of age 13 and up learn this as if it was a crap load of nothing. its sad really but to be honest i don't care to much about bombs or why the sun moves or not.
calculators....i use them now since id rather not use my brain. which yes is very sad. but in school they never let us use one. so i guess you can say i was smart back then. i passed all my exams on the first try except the English one.

Answer 8

The sun does move - how could you think it doesn't?

There's no real way to determine the answer to your question, and it doesn't matter - whether a person is right about a subject or not is determined by their knowledge, not just by their intelligence.

Much of the knowledge available today did not exist several hundred years ago.

See how that works?

Answer 9

Not smarter, just more informed. Knowledge is a strange thing...it grows exponentially, not linearly. With today's knowledge bank, computers are necessary, not a luxury. If we did not have computers, we could not be where we are today. Knowledge took its first explosion and growth (because of sharing of knowledge) with the introduction of the printing press. Today, printed word would bury all in a sea of information. Without computers, we could not navigate the sea in any useful way.

Answer 10

Both did and doing great job, b/c scientists from the past did well job at that time, and scientists now are doing better job to what comes and goes with their time!

Answer 11

I don't recall ever saying that, though scientists today have more technology available, it does not mean they are more intelligent.

Also they don't have to worry about the church driving a stake through their tongue and burning then alive on a pile of their own writings, that has to be a comfort.