Neildo said:
Occam's razor, okay, let's see, which is more simple and believable..
We have a non-sentient universe that doesn't know what it's doing which has created all of existance through blind luck of atoms bouncing back and forth with one another through billions and billions of years of more blind luck to finally create something.
Or we have an almighty creator that knows what it's doing and has created all of existance not through billions and billions of years of blind luck.
Gee, which is the more simple explanation?
A non-sentient universe.
Let me explain: Firslty its really: "
Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate" or "plurality should not be posited without necessity."
To think of Occam’s Razor as: “the ‘simplest’ explanation is the best” is fitting but can be misconstrued.
For example, using your reasoning concerning the universe lets take a look at a clock – say one you found while walking along the beach
There are two options on how is was formed. One, people smelted metals, contrived gear ratios, calculated exact spacing, made machinery that could make parts, etc .. OR maybe a simpler explanation is that God made it and placed it on the beach?
Hmmmm. . . . ??
Of course natural phenomena are the same. Let’s look at a rain. Water changes state and evaporates, some molecules condense around particles to form clouds, as these enlarge they form droplets, more water molecules change state and precipitate onto the droplets (which combine with other droplets as they begin to fall) and eventually they drop back to earth as rain. OR a simpler explanation may be
simply that God’s crying OR God made the rain. (mind you recently a Christian Priest, in the South I think, said God threw some lightning and burned their church for the church goers sins!! … Too funny huh!? :bugeye:
I think you see the mistake now?
Concerning the universe, some scientists feel that within the next 20-25 years the formation of
our particular universe will be explained in pure physical terms. Therefore, to add to this equation – oh and God was around too, is just not necessary. Hence the last refuge for justifying a god will be gone. It’s like adding “Oh and God is here doing something too” to Schrödinger’s equation. There’s no need to compound the equation with the addition of spurious information. In the same way, once the universe is explained mathematically, there’ll be no “
need” to add to the equation the notion of Gods.