Fellow Christians, would you accept the evolution of knowledge?

Question

We know that early mankind were hunters and later farmers, so they had no need for math. With the rise of trade people began to add and subtract. Before the Romans there were no roads to connect tribes with each other. No one knew what was happening outside of their own tribe or valley. No one left their own valley because of subsistance level farming. Foreigners were driven away because food was so short that no one could afford to share with a stranger. If you left your valley there was no employment. Today the exchange of knowedge in the advanced countries has enabled scientific advances which send us into space (or black holes), has allowed to pick apart DNA and RNA and has allowed us to gather energy from quarks and other sub atomic particles. Comments?

Answer 1

I beg to differ, roads existed long before the roman empire. They used math in their everyday lives. I don't know where you received your information but it is based on falsehoods. none of which are true.
with the exception of picking apart DNA.

The Egytians had and used both roads and math for centuries.
with the early hunters and farmers, they used the bartering system, that required them to know the value of their product and what to ask for it....

Answer 2

While your historical timeline is defective, as previously (and rather rudely) pointed out, nonetheless you are correct.

Well before any of the above-mentioned technological advances, man began learning as soon as he began to verbalize and memorize the verbalizations.

Each generation since has passed on the knowledge received from previous generations and has added to it whatever they've learned. Eventually, once they got writing down, knowledge could be stored with less likelihood of loss and knowledge began to grow exponentially. Today it's gynormous how much we know.

And those with a modicum of wisdom are those who know that that gynormous amount is only the beginning and they apply themselves to increasing that store of knowledge and finding better ways to pass it along to the future.

YES, there IS an evolution of knowledge, but NO, not in the sense of biological evolution.

Answer 3

2 Tim 3:1-9 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

"Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." Isn't that what's happened? I mean look at all the unbelievers today. Because of the knowledge, they've turned their backs on God. When BECAUSE of intuition and invention, and logic, we should be turning TO God and thanking Him for giving it to us!

Answer 4

I do not agree with you and just have to look at Solomon and see how wise he was. There were roads before. Also how would Noah build an ark if no maths. You either accept the bible in full or not.

Answer 5

Yes - a newer worldview replaces an older worldview - it's known as a 'paradigm shift'.

It seems to me that biological evolution is a reasonable analogy of this process - particularly the way that different worldviews (with their different concepts of knowledge) coexist and compete .