Science questions, they have asked the same questions for a while and the average seems steady, but it is not a passing grade
‘True. The big bang is considered the best theory to explain how the known universe came into existence. Thirty-nine percent of people answered this question correctly.
When a different groups of respondents were asked this question with the phrase, "According to astronomers" in front of it, 60 percent of people answered it correctly.’
This is a rather disturbing discrepancy likely caused in large part by the Young Earth Creationist worldview.
9 out of 10. Missed atoms and electrons
That's the one I had to think about for a bit.
@sewchick57 Me too. Evidently l didn't think about it enough. ☺
Does the sun orbit the earth and did humans evolve from earlier species? Seriously?!
(Sorry about the spoilers.)
Well, technically both the earth and sun orbit the center of mass of the solar system, which shifts as all the orbital bodies move, but since the center of mass is within the sun, for most purposes it amounts to the same thing.
I got 9 out of 10...forgot about the male sperm determines the sex of the child The question about the human race developing from early species of animals...I thought it all began with a giant orgy with Adam, Eve, the Nephilim, drunk Noah, Noah's daughters, Grey aliens, Jimmy Swagart, Jim Baker, and the royal family??? So...I selected True...figured all of the above were pretty much animals LOL
That was actually pretty simple. But I know that a whole lot of people would have trouble with it.
Agreed. I wanted to feel good about getting 10 out of 10, but instead I'm shaking my head about how many Americans don't know this stuff...
@Michael_D And to make you feel even worse about how many Americans don't know this stuff, I only finished 9th grade and I got 10.
That was easy.
That's what she said
The big bang question is bull. It was not an explosion, it was the expansion of spacetime... Inflation != explosion.
I thought that too, but given the generally low level of the questions I assumed "explosion" was being used colloquially.