05-31-2021, 09:22 PM
That - I read it as the speaker being very unreliable. They claim they're untouched by science and religion, while expressing religious ideas and using scientific terms. They claim all their relatives are dead for millions of years, but that would be denying their evolutionary kinship with, say, other fish, which however extended is still a kinship, or else it would be saying that they are, as an individual, ridiculously long-lived, having been born to parents and having cousins and uncles that lived, well, millions of years ago. The second observation is perhaps more stretched than the first, but either way it makes for very delicious reading.