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Well, I'll grant that four sided triangles and married bachelors and libertarian free will are all equally likely to exist.

Couldn't have said it better myself as your statement nicely illustrates the artificiality of your argument. It is a semantic one that is only valid if one simplifies things down to unrealistic absolutes and arbitrary dichotomies. The real world is far more complicated. Triangles can formally only have three sides but in the real world there exist any number of shapes that fall intermediate between a triangle and quadrilateral. In the real world there are all sorts of relationships that lie in between married and single. Einstein showed us that the accuracy of a statement depends on the frame of reference and Schrodinger described how contradictory characteristics can be simultaneously true.

The real world is far more interesting than the pretend one upon which your position is based. Reality isn't limited to objects with only a whole number of sides, humans have more choices in relationships than married or single, and animals exhibit behaviors based on more than just simple determinism and random chance.
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