Poll

"According to a 1996 poll of adult Americans conducted by the National Science Board, only 44% agreed with the statement. 'Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals'. Forty percent disagreed, and 16% answered 'don't know.' The same survey showed that 52% of American adults either agreed or didn't know that '[t]he earliest humans lived at the same time as the dinosaurs' (32% agreed, 20% didn't know)."

We're dealing with a fine breed....