Human beings often forget that life is a blink of an eye in terms of the history of the universe. The dinosaurs ruled this world for 200 million years. This is 1500 times as long as Homo sapiens has existed. The mean longevity for a human is somewhere around 76 years. This is such a small percentage compared to the length of time in which dinosaurs were around, that my calculator rounded it off to 0.
Science is a strange business.
When we landed on the moon in 1969, the world of Islam believed it to a sacred act, treated the astronauts as holy men, and considered the moon rocks as holy relics. The island of Bali, on the other hand, lodged a protest at the United Nations against the US for desecrating a sacred place. Still others believed that the event was staged and that the US made the moon landing in a Hollywood studio. Medical science is an even stranger business. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based the character of Sherlock Holmes on a physician named Joseph Bell whose supposed powers of deduction allowed him to pronounce diagnoses as a result of a cursory glance at his patient and prior to his physical examination.