Great (to the nth power) Grandpa was a Fish

[Anomalocaris]

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.

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".

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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.