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"    My running mate Pierce (&amp;quot;Bateman-Pierce 2016: We&amp;#039;ve Evolved) once wrote a book about this sort of thing, but it still stuns me when I see it anew. A new* journalistic/academic study reveals the depressing fact that the majority of Texans do not believe in human evolution. And a whopping 59% either &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t Know&amp;quot; if or outright believe that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time. People, it is very difficult for me to explain this to the British here where I live. Some of my better friends at my pub are what snobs back in the States might consider &amp;quot;trailer trash,&amp;quot; and yet they laugh at us, our educational system, our entire culture of anti-intellectualism \u2014 and at me as their representative American friend \u2014 that our nation has this affliction, this aversion to actual science and reason. The worst bit, which neatly encapsulates the shame that these Texans bring to the United States, is right at the end: &amp;quot;Prindle [the government professor who is the author of the study] says the results recall a line from comedian Lewis Black. &amp;#039;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,&amp;#039; Prindle says. &amp;#039;Turns out he was right.&amp;#039; &amp;quot; * Update: Turns out the study came out about the time I left the States. Although this was 36 months ago, I doubt that the percentages have changed since then. And here it is, in Black&amp;#039;s words:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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