Unlike aliens, ghosts, witches, or even, God, dinosaurs were real beings that roamed our planet 225 – 65 million years ago. Believing in the aforementioned requires a leap of faith, but believing the Earth has been around for millions (billions) of years is an objective fact.
That hasn’t stopped a staggering number of skeptics from questioning whether dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
Take Alex Bennett and Jordyn Woodruff on Barstool’s Mean Girl podcast, who struggle to talk about the subject.
“Do you think dinosaurs were real and existed, or do you think they were… methodical (mythological) creatures?” Alex asks.
Shockingly similar to this pic.twitter.com/Pg8nlDIXor
— Bobby Heenan (@dvdbonuscontent) June 15, 2023
They go on to wonder if the Tyrannosaurus rex was “the one that flew,” and are surprised to learn that a T-rex is the same dinosaur.
Outside of the world of podcasters, Twitter user @MilfParade shared a story about a co-worker's struggles conceptualizing our Dinosauria predecessors.
Remembering a girl I used to work with who didn’t believe in dinosaurs, not for religious reasons but bc “It’s just so silly…” Any time I tried to get her to elaborate, she’d be like “I mean…big monsters? Like…” and mime being a T-Rex until she was giggling too much to breathe
— Unemployed Astronaut (@MilfParade) June 15, 2023
Even in a comment section chock full of people laughing at the thought of a dinosaur doubter, plenty of others voiced their agreement with the co-worker. A skepticism of narwhals also seemed to be a common position.
She’s right though
— transgender demon hacker (@FireEyes66) June 15, 2023
my friend too i was flabbergasted. she has a masters degree but thought dinosaurs were made up like a fun story. she genuinely asked me if i thought they might be real i was like PAUSE
— gio (@giovannanirvana) June 16, 2023
okay no wait because i get it because real talk— there's just no way that narwhals are real. like literally no way.
— Em (@EmAsInMoney) June 15, 2023
Choosing not to believe in something with loads of irrefutable evidence simply because you can’t conceptualize it yourself goes against being a logically thinking human being. But then again, there seem to be fewer and fewer of those every day.
We use cell phones, fly on planes, and get sick from bacteria we can’t even see. The majority of us have no idea how any of those things happen, but we accept them because they’re right in front of us. Dinosaurs aren’t ghosts, they’re reptiles. And they were very, very real.
I can sort of see her point. Because really, airplanes can’t fly—that’s absurd, to think you could load people and cargo on a metal tube and make it fly through the air with some wings and two engines.
— Lee in Iowa (@Lee_in_Iowa) June 16, 2023
Makes takeoffs exciting, when I travel.
I feel this way about lots of animals. Why would North America only have 1 marsupial? Or a mammal with clearly fake “armor”?!? A snake with a rattle glued to its tail? or a fake spider? Don’t get me started on platypuses! Not even a good try at a fake animal
— David A (@SaltyDrave) June 16, 2023
I once had a 50 foot long, spotted whale shark go by me in the Galapagos. It had spots on it like something out of Dr. Seuss. It was close enough to touch and something in me still didn’t believe it. It was a FISH and the back vertical fin spun me around. Still a dream. pic.twitter.com/rr3V5N4Mtf
— Steven B. Harris (@Sbharris11) June 15, 2023
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