Yabba Dabba Doo!

From the Gallup Organization:

Only about a third of Americans believe that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is a scientific theory that has been well supported by the evidence, while just as many say that it is just one of many theories and has not been supported by the evidence. The rest say they don't know enough to say. Forty-five percent of Americans also believe that God created human beings pretty much in their present form about 10,000 years ago. A third of Americans are biblical literalists who believe that the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word.

I know, I know, some of you are going to blame religion for this sort of thinking about the age of the human species. Frankly, I blame television. As kids everybody saw Fred Flintstone hanging out with all those dinosaurs. And if "The Flinstones" is to be believed, they even had *cars* back then, for Pete's sake.

When will the media stop misleading the American public?