Texans think "The Flintsones" is a documentary.
Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time, and more than half disagree with the theory that humans developed from earlier species of animals, according to the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
Okay, to be fair, this is a result of the old whisper game where one person tells a second person something who passes it on to a third, and on and on, until you see that the last person in the chain has a story with many differences from the original. The way this one started – this one about dinosaurs and man living at the same time – is that the first Texan was told that a Texan's brain was still virtually the same as the reptilian brain of a dinosaur.
And it's not just Texans. My son had a science teacher – a science teacher, mind you – in elementary school in rural Missouri who tried to teach the class this very thing, and the proof of it he said was that there are places where you can see dinosaur tracks beside wagon tracks.
And I believe that's in Texas.
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