Get your Christ outta my fish: piscology now!
‘Say amen to this, Jesusfish!’ My evofish can bend one into your Jesusfish anyday. Before marriage, too. Late arrivals at the piscologists’ ball was my excuse to show off the fact I’d been in the Natural History Museum spirit room and seen a Coeleocanth. Dead, much abused and head down in a big test tube of booze, but still a Latimeria chalumnae which not many can claim to have seen even the right way up and sober. I wrongly called fishologists ‘piscologists’ (them spirit room fumes were powerful medicine) and was put right in comments by Richard Carter of Gruts who reminded me that they’re really called icthyologists.
(Which sounds like the study of eructata, or possibly sloppy crap.)
Well, them Christians have rather monopolised this Icthos thing, so I say we science-believin’ rationalists should dump the Latin Christian Icthy- and replace it with the greek Pisc, until all Christians sign a statement affirming that evolution by natural selection is the dog’s, while ID and creationism are the spawn of dodgy old literature written by the gullible, the needy and the bewildered for the gullible, the needy and the bewildered. Then they can have their ‘icthy’ back.
More cartoons laughing at creationists (fish, barrel, shooting) here.
October 25, 2007 at 11:26 am
Isn’t the point of evolution that over a very long amount of time things evolve in a way to become the “fittest” (in the sense of “survival of the fittest”… Coeleocanth fossil’s were found of them from so long ago that people thought they were extinct. But they aren’t extinct and yet are exactly the same as the fossil’s show them. Where’s the evoluation in that?
October 25, 2007 at 5:43 pm
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