I saw this last week and wanted to blog about it but didn’t have time…  Anyway apparently 41% of Americans either definitely or probably think humans and dinosaurs coexisted…

YouGov’s latest research shows that 41% of Americans think that dinosaurs and humans either ‘definitely’ (14%) or ‘probably’ (27%) once lived on the planet at the same time. 43% think that this is either ‘definitely’ (25%) or ‘probably’ (18%) not true while 16% aren’t sure. In reality the earliest ancestors of humans have only been on the planet for 6 million years, while the last dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago.

I don’t even know how to respond to that but the US has a systemic problem with science education. Fine I get it, people are religious but to have citizens that are blatantly ignorant (willingly or not) of basic scientific facts boggles the mind! While everyone else in the world moves ahead, the US is going backwards.