Even just some cursory thought should put the lie to that. As Steven J. Gould ruminated[0] upon quite some time ago:

   ... But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand.  Human
   intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as
   we can tell.  If intelligent people invested intense energy in issues
   that now seem foolish to us, then the failure lies in our understanding
   of their world, not in their distorted perceptions.  Even the standard
   example of ancient nonsense -- the debate about angels on pinheads --
   makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing
   whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a
   finite or an infinite number.
                -- S. J. Gould, "Wide Hats and Narrow Minds"