I have actually thought about that myself, though. According to darwinism, it took millions and millions of years for man to evolve to his current form. So for the past 200,000-250,000 years or so, we have been very close to our current form. Yet, that is a whole lot of nothing for such a relatively advanced specimen. And this has nothing to do with learning to split the atom. We are talking relatively simple things.
Here, let's use the 24 hour analogy again - for the sake of the illustration, let's say man has been at his current state for 200,000 years:
At midnight, the clock starts, as homo sapiens arrive on the scene. Progress is extremely slow, and at 10:30pm, we barely qualify as hunter-gatherer. And then all of a sudden, starting at about 10:45pm, we have recorded history, the wheel, and civilization, and this progresses on up through the information age to the current time of midnight, where we have split the atom, invented the world wide web, and walked on the moon.
Yea, call me incredulous.
Well we did talk about some simple advances. For example, mankind was using Spears and sharpened weapons over a hundred thousand years ago. Pottery and agriculture some 20,000 years ago as well. But he didn't accept these technological advances.
Early man over 200,000 years ago had things like hammers and blades. Hand axes and grinding tools.
There were simple things around long ago, simple inventions. Simple tools.
But this just wasn't enough. Maybe the individual wanted to see cars? Planes? A steel foundry?
Why is it so strange that people might have a scientific revolution? One minute we could barely get into space (the 70s), the next minute we are launching tens of thousands of satellites in a single year (Tesla's spaceX). Is this not equally strange?
One day we might think that the elements are earth, wind, fire and water (the Romans beliefs in 50AD?), The next we are using chromatography to identify the elements of stars 10 billion light-years away (1980s?).
In medicine, one minute we attribute disease to witchcraft (1700s?), and the next minute we are using crispr to replace nucleotides in the human genome to fight disease (today).
Are these advances that just recently happened not equally odd to you? That we might go from witchcraft to microscopic genomic surgery In the last second of the clock?
But alas, at the end of the day, no matter how odd it might seem to any of us, this is just how it's played out. The evidence is what it is. Why Abraham and Job or Samson or Tertius didn't write about subatomic particles, is anyone's guess. Some things people of the past simply didn't know.
Agriculture played a huge role in buying us time to ponder things and some might ask well, why didnt we think of these things 2 billion years ago? Well, of course reptiles don't have minds like we do. Nor do birds nor fish, so in our most humble of origins, there's no reason to think that we should have just instantly known anything. We had to learn at some point.
Anyway, it's just incredulity. Alternatively, we are well aware that evidence for an old earth is absurdly insurmountable. The evidence for the timeline of human advances just is what it is. Why people didn't think of these things sooner? Well, people don't know what they don't know. We can't even ask about things that we don't know about because we don't know what to even ask. Especially back in the stone age.
Moving on.