RE: Anecdotal Evidence
December 6, 2016 at 6:13 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2016 at 6:39 pm by bennyboy.)
(December 6, 2016 at 5:56 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: The problems with 'goddidit' in terms of Occam's Razor are that it doesn't actually explain anything and it's an unnecessary multiplication of entities, the very thing the razor is supposed to shave off.
It's a singular entity. The only thing simpler to that, as I just mentioned, would be brute fact-- that NOTHING caused anything to exist-- or another singular entity-- for example, physicsdidit. But physicsdidit isn't really better than goddidit.
Is the God idea coherent? Not if you think of Skydaddy. But if you think of God as a philosophical creative principle, predicated on an idealistic beginning to the physical universe, then it is no worse than any other philosophical approach to reality.