(April 5, 2017 at 9:02 pm)Jehanne Wrote: I am somewhat surprised that no one has jumped in on this one! (I was waiting for one of the "Christians among Us" to do so!) But, hey, here's my point in posting this -- if theists are going to reject polytheism because it supposedly violates Occam's razor, why criticize atheists for rejecting theism, deism, etc., for having violated Occam's razor, also?! After all, why not explain the unknown in terms of the known? Why appeal at all to some phenomenon outside of Nature when there are perfectly good hypotheses within Nature?
Funny thing I have encountered theists who have tried to argue naturalism violates Occams razor. While theism doesn't. Because we posit complex interaction of stuff that actually exists . While they infer one useless catch all universal vitalism to explain everything. That's existence or non existences doesn't seem all that different.
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