Jurassic Park movies may have influenced polls showing 40% of Americans believe humans and dinosaurs coexisted. Only 54% of respondents in a 2015 poll knew cloning DNA from fossils isn’t feasible. Dinosaurs went extinct before humans appeared on Earth.
Jurassic Park and its sequels — including 2015’s record-breaking Jurassic World — have had people in movie theater seats since the original film debuted in 1993. The premise of Jurassic Park is that a billionaire and a team of geneticists could clone dinosaurs long extinct. Though science fiction, the Jurassic Park movies may have influenced the results of a 2008 Harris poll and a 2015 YouGov poll. Both polls found that about 40 percent of Americans believe humans and dinosaurs coexisted on Earth .
Both polls probed American beliefs related to biblical creationism, evolution, evolutionary biology, and general scientific knowledge. The 2015 YouGov poll also found that only 54% of respondents knew that the basis of movies – the ability to clone DNA from fossils – isn’t currently feasible.
Facts And Fiction About Dinosaurs On Earth:
Humanity’s first direct ancestors appeared on Earth just 6 million years ago, long after the dinosaurs went extinct in a cataclysmic event.
The original Jurassic Park was based on a 1990 novel by Michael Crichton. The story takes place on a fictional island off the coast of Central America, near Costa Rica.
Jurassic World broke records for the best opening weekend ever, earning nearly $209 million in North America.
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