On Sep 15, 12:46Â pm, tg
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>>> "Mark Earnest"
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>> "curmudgeon"
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>> Ockham's Razor, simply put, is the belief that when all things are
>> Â considered, the simplest explanation is often the truest one.
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>> William Ockham  1214 - 1294
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>> Agree.
>> The more the words, the less the meaning.
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>> I wonder just what the Emanuel Kant fan club would
>> either think or say about it ?
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> First they would explain that your interpretation is inadequate.
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> As applied to scientific reasoning, which is all that matters. it
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> "The theory which requires the the least assumption should be adopted
> as the working theory." Â And please note that "least assumption" is
> not "fewest assumptions" but a more general application of the term.
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> So an explanation like Goddidit is not supported by OR over some other
> like Evolution, since Evolution does not require  the assumption of
> the existence of a supernatural entity.
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I would agree with you that evolution is a more logical explanation
for the development of living creatures, but evolution would/could not
work unless all the other factors were just perfect. I.E. gravity
force being strong enough to accumulate matter into planets but not
too strong to overwhelm the nuclear forces. The balance of the forces
conducive to creating the universe, earth and the life on it, until
such time as there are clearer explanations, i will attribute to, for
lack of a better explanation and word, god. Occams razor makes perfect
sense in that case.
I do not claim to understand how all the facets contributing to the
experience i call life and how it all came to be, and some may
laughingly call this the diminishing god of the gaps. So be it then.
Eventually most of the gaps may be closed and a perfectly
understandable explanation could be commonly grasped by all. Occams
razor makes a watchmaker a more reasonable explanation than the watch
constructing itself, until we fully understand the process
