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Great (to the nth power) Grandpa was a Fish
August 22, 2011 at 12:26 pm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...142738.htm
Quote:Three Waves of Evolutionary Innovation Shaped Diversity of Vertebrates, Genome Analysis Reveals
ScienceDaily (Aug. 21, 2011) — Over the past 530 million years, the vertebrate lineage branched out from a primitive jawless fish wriggling through Cambrian seas to encompass all the diverse forms of fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals. Now researchers combing through the DNA sequences of vertebrate genomes have identified three distinct periods of evolutionary innovation that accompanied this remarkable diversification.
More to give the creationists a diarrhea hemorrhage.
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RE: Great (to the nth power) Grandpa was a Fish
August 22, 2011 at 12:34 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2011 at 12:35 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
And, technically speaking, we still are fish (among a great many other things).
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RE: Great (to the nth power) Grandpa was a Fish
August 22, 2011 at 12:51 pm
I am not a fish!
That would look good on a t-shirt methinks.
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RE: Great (to the nth power) Grandpa was a Fish
August 22, 2011 at 12:56 pm
(August 22, 2011 at 12:51 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I am not a fish!
That would look good on a t-shirt methinks.
If you're a Christian 
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RE: Great (to the nth power) Grandpa was a Fish
August 22, 2011 at 1:01 pm
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(August 22, 2011 at 12:56 pm)Darwinian Wrote: (August 22, 2011 at 12:51 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I am not a fish!
That would look good on a t-shirt methinks.
If you're a Christian
Why if i'm a christian would it be good on a t-shirt?
I know we evloved from fishes but our species moved on from being fish may moons ago. So I stick by he statement 'I am not a fish' while acknowledging that in my evolutionary past my distant relatives were fish.
In fact I am not a fish could be an anti christian t-shirt because of the use of the fish picture to symbolise the christian faith. 
so there.
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RE: Great (to the nth power) Grandpa was a Fish
August 22, 2011 at 1:09 pm
Good point.
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RE: Great (to the nth power) Grandpa was a Fish
August 22, 2011 at 1:13 pm
(August 22, 2011 at 1:09 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Good point.
Xtian shitheads prefer to be descended from fucking dirt!
And spare rib.
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RE: Great (to the nth power) Grandpa was a Fish
August 22, 2011 at 1:13 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2011 at 1:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't think the idea is crystal clear to you. We did not move on FROM being fishes. We evolved into a DIFFERENT kind of fish. You are now and will always be what your ancestors have always been. These sorts of misunderstandings are exactly where creationists get their ammo.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Great (to the nth power) Grandpa was a Fish
August 22, 2011 at 1:14 pm
I like spare ribs.
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RE: Great (to the nth power) Grandpa was a Fish
August 22, 2011 at 1:35 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2011 at 2:04 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 22, 2011 at 1:01 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: (August 22, 2011 at 12:56 pm)Darwinian Wrote: (August 22, 2011 at 12:51 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I am not a fish!
That would look good on a t-shirt methinks.
If you're a Christian
Why if i'm a christian would it be good on a t-shirt?
I know we evloved from fishes but our species moved on from being fish may moons ago. So I stick by he statement 'I am not a fish' while acknowledging that in my evolutionary past my distant relatives were fish.
Actually, evolutionary biologists favor phylogenetic classification system, which places you in the same group as each of your ancesters.
The net effect is you belong to that ancesteral group to which any common ancester that you and any particular modern group shared had belonged.
It so happens that the last common ancester you and all bony fish alive today shared was itself a primitive bony fish. So you, as with any fishes, are a fish.
The last common ancester you and all dinosaurs shared was not a primitive dinosaur, so you are not a dinosaur. The last common ancester you and all dinosaurs shared was likely a primitive amniote, so both you, and dinosaurs, are amniotes, even if, in the course of your evolution, you lost that characteristic trait of amniotes, which is to lay land adapted eggs.
(August 22, 2011 at 1:01 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: In fact I am not a fish could be an anti christian t-shirt because of the use of the fish picture to symbolise the christian faith.
so there.
You are a fish, just a type of fish sufficiently evolved to be capable of more fully and factually grasping than Christians could ever have any prayer of grasping, the implications of what is meant by "you are a fish".
(August 22, 2011 at 1:09 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Good point.
Xtian shitheads prefer to be descended from fucking dirt!
Well, phylogenetically, you are dirt, or something very close to a particular wet, slimy kind of dirt.
But just because we are all dirt, that doesn't meant we have to look up to a particularly disgraceful example of our kind of dirt, like that example which thinks he is the son of god, never worked an honest day's labor, and get nailed to a plank pretty much like he deserved, and then became dirt with higher entropy.
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