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Author: Leon Hoeneveld
Date: Sep 15, 2008 05:37

Errol schreef:
> 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
>

You may need another example.

Reichenbach showed that for the universe two kinds of mathematics could
be used. The Euclidian or The Riemannian (bend space). To be consistent
one had to introduce forces in the case of Euclidian mathematics, while
Riemannian space could do without the forces. Reichenbach used Ockham's
razor and concluded that space is non-Euclidian.

So much for light traveling in straight lines then.
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