Debunked: Science Now Says First Humans Couldn’t Have Arrived in North America Via Land Bridge, Must’ve Taken Boats Instead

Remember when you were a kid and you were taught that the first humans must’ve arrived in North America via the Bering Land Bridge? It’s the main theory history classes have passed on to generation after generation of American public school students for decades now.

A little problem, though. Like Pluto not being a planet (then being a planet again?) or the Brontosaurus (is he real or did he never exist?), the land bridge theory has apparently been debunked.

Turns out, that land bridge was completely inhospitable until around 12,600 years ago, which is 900 years after the Clovis people were already living in North America and others were living in South America hundreds of years before that. According to new DNA research from sediment cores, there were no animals or plants or anything that could’ve sustained humans on such a long trek across the Bering Land Bridge during the time period when humans were first showing up here.

So now they’re thinking people just took boats instead.

Once again, this just goes to show that “science,” especially about things that happened a long, long time ago or that are happening really really far away, isn’t exactly what most people would call “science”. It’s more like Santa Claus. You have to want to believe to make it real. (But hey, they’ll sure teach it to little kids in school like it’s real.)