Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption...
Romans 8:21
"A new study led by psychologist Michael Woodley (Umeå University, Sweden) has found that our 19th century ancestors were “substantially cleverer” than we are.
The researchers compared reaction times (reflex speed) as an indicator of our ‘fleetness of mind’ or
general intelligence across the generations since the 1800s.
They compared modern reaction times with those measured in the late 19th century by Francis Galton (Charles Darwin’s first cousin who founded eugenics. They found that an average man in 1889 had a reaction time of 183 milliseconds, but in 2004 it had slowed to 253 milliseconds. For the average woman, too, there was a deterioration over this same period: from 188 down to 261ms.
The researchers say this slowing in our reflexes can be equated to a loss of 14 IQ points since Victorian times. This “pronounced decline” is three times larger than previous theoretical estimates.
Along with genetic studies showing progressive mutational degradation of our human genome, with about 100 new mutations per generation, here is yet more evidence of our being in “bondage to decay”, just as the Bible says Romans 8:19–22." CEH
Romans 8:21
"A new study led by psychologist Michael Woodley (Umeå University, Sweden) has found that our 19th century ancestors were “substantially cleverer” than we are.
The researchers compared reaction times (reflex speed) as an indicator of our ‘fleetness of mind’ or
They compared modern reaction times with those measured in the late 19th century by Francis Galton (Charles Darwin’s first cousin who founded eugenics. They found that an average man in 1889 had a reaction time of 183 milliseconds, but in 2004 it had slowed to 253 milliseconds. For the average woman, too, there was a deterioration over this same period: from 188 down to 261ms.
The researchers say this slowing in our reflexes can be equated to a loss of 14 IQ points since Victorian times. This “pronounced decline” is three times larger than previous theoretical estimates.
Along with genetic studies showing progressive mutational degradation of our human genome, with about 100 new mutations per generation, here is yet more evidence of our being in “bondage to decay”, just as the Bible says Romans 8:19–22." CEH