McWay, you need to become a better Christian and reject evolution.
It's a plot by the libtards.
Thirty Percent of Texans Think Dinosaurs Lived With Humans
And Another Thirty Percent Say They're Not Sure!
This is so very embarrassing it makes me want to walk down every street in my neighborhood and conduct my own door-to-door survey - and if the results are as fantastical as this, relocate to a more enlightened part of the country. Honestly, are we living in 2010 or 1910? We all know that religious fanatics like Sarah Palin, James Dobson, and born-again Texas Governor Rick Perry believe there were velociraptors in the Garden of Eden, peacefully munching on ferns and fig leaves. But I simply can't wrap my head around the fact that one in three of my neighbors might be this scientifically challenged. Where's my clipboard? I'm ringing some doorbells.
Amanda Terkel at Think Progress delivers the bad tidings: A new University of Texas/Texas Tribune survey shows how destructive a politicized right-wing curriculum can be. A large number of Texans polled said they still don’t believe in evolution and are convinced that humans and dinosaurs co-existed... Refusing to believe in evolution is a point of pride for many conservatives, who are also trying to indoctrinate young people with their same misguided views. The right-wing Texas State Board of Education has been reviewing the direction of the state’s social studies curriculum and textbook standards. (Poll results below.)
•51 percent disagree with the statement, "Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals."
•38 percent agree with the statement, "God created human beings pretty much in their present form about 10,000 years ago."
•30 percent agree with the statement, "Humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time." Another 30 percent said they "don’t know" whether the statement is true.
From the Texas Tribune: The questions were devised by David Prindle, a University of Texas government professor who authored a book called Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution, about the late evolutionary biologist. "The end in mind is to establish the relationships, not just to get raw public opinion," he says. "We can do some fancy statistical stuff. Is it religion driving politics or is politics driving religion? My hypothesis is that religious views drive politics... Prindle says the results recall a line from comedian Lewis Black. "He did a standup routine a few years back in which he said that a significant proportion of the American people think that the 'The Flintstones' is a documentary," Prindle says. "Turns out he was right. Thirty percent of Texans agree that humans and dinosaurs lived on the earth at the same time." (Blatant ignorance like this is more than discouraging. It's downright scary.)