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Originally Posted by Anthony G Williams  I am still amazed and baffled by the results of a survey carried out in the USA in 2005, in which people were invited to answer the question "human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals: true or false?" The answers given were: true 40%; false 39%; not sure 21%. To me, that is a sad indictment of the US educational system. |
I am surprised that the number of those who responded "true" was so high!
My guess is that people find it difficult to reconcile their egos with any suggestion that they could have shared a common ancestor with an animal. Funny if true , because that ego is one of the most animal instincts we posses.
- Z.