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To: jonno

No; that’s not relevant. The point of the analogy is that it illustrates the confusion about selective sampling; hence, the Texas Sharpshooter who brings a paintbursh and can to paint bulls-eyes around his shots after the fact is the correct analogy.


115 posted on 11/24/2008 11:59:58 AM PST by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: steve-b
...The point of the analogy is that it illustrates the confusion...

LOL. Stevo, the point of this article was that the universe seems custom made for life. IOW everywhere you look in biology - or cosmology - you find "paint brushes & paint" supplied just as if they were meant to be there.

I understand your argument that these "amazing finds" are nothing more than finding that "round pegs fit round holes" - no surprise there.

I am simply expanding your Texas SharpShooter analogy to help illustrate the point of this article.

Now you don't have to agree - but neither do I have to find your analogy useful as it is simply another tool to obfuscate the glaringly obvious question:
"Where in your experience have you seen something come from nothing?"

128 posted on 11/24/2008 12:41:42 PM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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