This is why the formal phrasing of "Occam's Razor" ("avoid the needless multiplication of entities") is way more valid and applicable than the lay rephrasing of it as "simpler explanations are better"https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/status/1305554660816642048?s=19 …
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And the idea of Occam's Razor is to try to minimize the number of special categories of things William of Ockham himself was, of course, a theist and a Christian, but he was trying to keep people from just constantly making up more shit about God and Heaven and angels
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I'm fine with it being the simplest explanation, really, but it just requires the premise that you only know two things: a.) There's a universe b.) I didn't make this universe. Therefore, someone else probably did. That's fine.
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It's just that we've found out a lot of other stuff to add.
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Okay fine everything's God & the universe is just God playing with himself geez why you gotta make it so hard to make claims about the universe without evidence party pooper
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