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If the universe was fine tuned for our life...
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life...
(December 1, 2014 at 1:11 pm)rasetsu Wrote: Like I said. You're expanding and contracting your definitions to include only what you want to include. That's the Texas sharpshooter fallacy. A chameleon animal doesn't intentionally design the subreality which is what you were originally arguing for. First it was designed, then the product of intellect, then reduced to merely having a brain. You're rubber band man.

I don't claim a chameleon produces a sub reality. That is your claim. I am claiming that a chameleon requires a certain amount of intelligence to do what it does in order to refute your claim that chameleons have no intelligence. All chameleon have some level of intelligence. A brain/nervous system is just a physical thing I can point to in which that intelligence resides. The fact that all chameleons have brains/nervous systems suggest they have some intelligence(but that is another argument entirely).

There is no Texas Sharp shooter fallacy. There is only your obfuscation. I'm not even sure you properly understand what a Texas Sharp Shooter Fallacy is. Here is an example of a Texas Sharp shooter fallacy:

Suppose you want to reduce airline crashes. So you look at 1000 different variables. You notice that planes with red markings on their tails crashed 4 times as much as planes with different color markings on their tails. Now after examining so many variables just by random happenstance you would expect to see at least one variable show up more than the others. After conducting such a study...declaring red markings on tails of planes makes them more likely to crash would be a Texas Sharp Shooter Fallacy.
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If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Lucanus - November 30, 2014 at 1:06 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Nope - November 30, 2014 at 1:25 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by IATIA - November 30, 2014 at 1:40 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by IATIA - November 30, 2014 at 2:05 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Cato - December 2, 2014 at 7:34 am
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Cato - December 2, 2014 at 11:04 am
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Heywood - December 1, 2014 at 1:45 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by C4RM5 - November 30, 2014 at 1:50 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Cato - November 30, 2014 at 2:22 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Chas - December 1, 2014 at 10:49 am
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Smaug - November 30, 2014 at 2:02 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Smaug - November 30, 2014 at 2:49 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Smaug - November 30, 2014 at 3:02 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by IATIA - November 30, 2014 at 3:42 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Smaug - November 30, 2014 at 3:46 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Smaug - November 30, 2014 at 3:50 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Smaug - November 30, 2014 at 4:09 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Smaug - November 30, 2014 at 4:18 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Smaug - November 30, 2014 at 4:25 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Smaug - November 30, 2014 at 5:00 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Smaug - November 30, 2014 at 5:41 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Smaug - November 30, 2014 at 5:56 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Smaug - November 30, 2014 at 6:07 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Smaug - November 30, 2014 at 6:19 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Cato - December 2, 2014 at 1:08 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Cato - December 3, 2014 at 7:24 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by IATIA - December 5, 2014 at 12:32 am
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by Cato - December 5, 2014 at 2:27 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by IATIA - December 5, 2014 at 10:02 pm
RE: If the universe was fine tuned for our life... - by IATIA - December 5, 2014 at 10:21 pm

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