Are you alone? According to this video, no, not really. We’re more interconnected with each other and our universe than many Americans would even believe — and I mean that as a literal statement, as evidenced by the fact that about a third of Americans reject the theory of evolution entirely. The video discusses everything from our evolutionary history back to how the atomic elements in our bodies were formed in the first stars in the universe, all in only six minutes. It’s definitely a must-watch, especially due to the fact that scientific literacy in this nation is bad and getting worse. According to a recent poll (PDF),?a quarter of Americans don’t know that Earth orbits the sun.?Even worse, a?majority?of young adults — aged 18-24 — think that astrology is, to some degree, scientific (it isn’t).
Here’s the video:
