[dylan604]

Was that really the leading theory you were taught? If you were 12, I'm <10 years older, and even then I distinctly remember the asteroid theory being taught as what wiped out the dinosaurs. Climate change is kind of given after that, but the asteroid was taught as the cause.

There's been a few "big one" theories I've heard about. The impending California earthquake is a popular one, but I'm familiar with super volcanoes and asteroids too from childhood.

[davesque]

Yeah, I remember the same. I was 13 in 1994 and I remember the impact theory being taught as the cause well before the Shoemaker-Levy impact.

[labster]

My experience as well. Sometimes education can lag well beyond scientific theory. The Scopes Monkey Trial happened in 1925, and evolution still isn’t being taught in many American schools.