eta: I thought I was shitposting on the internet, where search is quicker and easier than commenting:
“Primal” surely didn’t help…
How does this fit with the whole believing in God thing?
Dinosaurs were made up by the deepstate, obviously?
Doesn’t this imply the 41% are atheists?
Father Stickyfingers told me not to ask those questions.
“Young Earth” Christians believe every word in the Bible is true. According to their calculations the Earth can’t be more than 6,000 years old. The idea that there was anything before that is anathema.
They are extinct because they couldn’t fit on the ark
Be a lot cooler if we did
“Humans and dinosaurs living together” is a popular trope in entertainment. Surprise, surprise - repeatedly exposing people to this anachronism will lead people to believe the thing.
By comparison, a mere 6% of Americans doubt the Moon landing happened. When we’re constantly including Americans-visiting-the-moon tropes in our historical dramas and near future fictions, people get the answer correct far more often than not.
Fun fact: T-Rex didn’t coexist with Stegasaurus. Movies lump all dinosaurs together like they all lived at the same time but they really didn’t. Many species came and went over the millions of years dinosaurs lived
And the Brontosaurus isn’t real. It’s just an Apatosaurus with the wrong head.
Akshually, modern birds are descended from dinosaurs, effectively making them dinosaurs themselves. So humans did, and still do, live with dinosaurs.
Preach! And it’s not even “effectively,” birds are dinosaurs—full stop. They are avian dinosaurs.
Little birds are so cute, until you watch them hunting for prey and imagine yourself at that scale.
Watched a chicken jumpkick a rat and the rat bleed to death. We are lucky the world isn’t full of cassowary.
I mean it’s not hollowed out and literally filled with them, but we do have SOME cassowaries.
Not only that, but some countries are fully governed by dinosaurs. Ask me how I know…
I suspect many survey respondents were right for the wrong reason, or vice-versa. I have two dinosaurs in my house right now.
I suppose someone small enough could ride an emu thus be riding a dinosaur! Thank you for that thought.
people ride ostriches, I did that for work a few times. fun
Ostrich rodeo? Rancher? Member of Jackass?
I worked in a nature reserve, a couple times we needed emergency treatment for ostriches, and our vet said wrestling an ostrich to its knees was safer for the ostrich than using sedatives…
I’m not sure if its true, but when I was 18 years old, it was the highlight of my life
I went to Australia and went with a tour group and the bus stopped. All of the cars were stopped on the road for some reason. The tour guide said “nobody get out of the vehicle!” Then I saw a velociraptor with a couple of baby velociraptors just walking down the side of the road.
I think they call them cassowaries, but if you see how they move, those things are goddamn velociraptors.
And once you’re done telling everyone a tomato is a fruit, the rest of us still aren’t going to put it in a fruit salad.
Don’t be pedantic, you know what they meant.
being a fruit isn’t an indicator about what to do with it. are you putting cucumbers in fruit salads too?
god forbid you put a strawberry in the fruit salad, because that isn’t a fruit.
you’re the one being pedantic. birds are all dinosaurs, that is a scientific consensus.
that doesn’t mean that a pigeon will be the next monster in Jurassic world 8. but there are all dinosaurs.
same way humans are also primates and mammals and animals…
checks the community this is posted in
Fuck me…. Missed that.
This and also Nessy
And only 41% believe it!
That’s ridiculous. We would make terrible roommates.
What’s the Venn Diagram of this and MAGAs?
Ever heard of Giotto?
I mean…technically they did, and still do, since birds are technically dinosaurs, but context clued tell me that the people being talked about here didn’t have that in mind when answering the survey
Coincidentally, 41% is also approximately Trump’s approval rating.
And 41 is his IQ
Jesus Christ, how is it so high?
40% approve, 56% disapprove.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/695519/mood-subdued-crime-unity-concerns-rise.aspx
*citation needed
Don’t get me wrong, I believe a whole lot of Americans believe this. But that’s a big number backed up by “they say”
I doubt it’s that high. They surveyed 1000 people over a decade ago to extrapolate that:
The poll surveyed 1000 adult Americans between June 15 and June 17, 2015, apparently on-line; the margin of error reported was plus/minus 4.4%. Further details of the polling methodology are not readily apparent.
i grew up in church, this is part of the curriculum
OP included this
This is shitpost, but like… You all don’t really believe single polls to be representative of entire countries, right? We’re just shitposting, right?
…right…?
Have you seen current day US?
I spend a fair bit of time in 'Murica
I used to think that the stereotype of the stupid yank was just that, nothing more than a stereotype
Sure, there are millions of normal, intelligent people, but there are a huge and concerning number who are exactly as stupid as they are portrayed
The casual religiousity is damning, and when people believe in one absurdity they are primed to believe in others too
Coelacanth are still around, so kinda…
they aren’t dinosaurs, however, birds exist so yes
Birds are dinosaurs though.
Coelacanth aren’t birds
Do crocodiles not count?
Their brains aren’t big enough to count like you and me.
:slow_clap:
no. they aren’t dinosaurs, as they branched out before.
however, all birds are descendants of dinosaurs, so humans did (and still do) live with dinosaurs
I’ve ridden an ostrich before.
I’m a Dino rider!
No
So chickens are out of the question
Only valid in Dino nugget form
Ooooh you’re lucky my instance doesn’t allow downvoting
They’re good prehistoric dogs, Brunt
You’re straying even further from Dinosaurs now‽ mammals! What a world! Lol
Well, about as many believed it was a good idea to vote for Trump, so it’s not surprising. Or just look how many believe Fox “News” is a reputable source of information…
Demographically, YouGov noted, “While most Americans who describe themselves as ‘born again’ (56%) believe that humans and dinosaurs once shared the planet, most Americans who do not describe themselves as born again (51%) think that they did not.”
This does not add up…
Its one of those articles where you have stats that give you strokes.
I think it means 56% of born agains, and 51% of born onetimes
