Evolution? Smarter or dumber?

I thought this would make a simple post. And of course I was right.

Is the human race becoming smarter? or dumber?
(is it a given that the human race isn’t staying the same?)
Are the smartest humans becoming smarter or dumber? Are the human race’s smartest people alive today? Or not?
If the smartest humans are alive today, are they powerless because of the aggregate stupidity of the rest of us? Is that an Ayn Rand thing? How do you pronounce Ayn? (This has been fully responded to by Larry Kralj).

Put aside common sense* for just a moment and consider that it’s been 65,000,000 years since dinosaurs (except for birds) infested the Earth. All Human Beings share a common upty-great grandpa from 60,000 years ago (named Umpty). Neither of those things has any bearing on human intelligence trends, as far as I know; it’s just that given enough time, unexpected things can happen.

Which is more important: whether the smartest people get smarter or dumber, or whether the rest of us get smarter or dumber? I’d venture that us non-smart people don’t advance the Human Race; it’s the smart people who do that. Us non-smart people have our place, though; we act as the governor that keeps the smart people from going to far, too fast.

*common sense tells us that God’s tiniest fingers keep the proper spin on each and every quark, whether it be up, down or even dare I say, charmed; it’s much like David Spathaky spinning plates or Meadowlark Lemon spinning a basketball. Actually, way more like David Spathaky. That’s been quite a feat for the 6,000 years since God set it up. Nobody with any sense could imagine God doing that for sixty-five million years, much less 4 1/2 billion years or more. Why should He?