(September 28, 2011 at 9:53 am)ElDinero Wrote: Yeah, the thing with Occam's Razor is it's not exactly about the simplest explanation per se. On the face of it 'God did it all' is spectacularly simple. It's more specifically about making the least new assumptions. So for example, we can observe the universe and the planet, we observe the natural world, we see that the natural world works and we know it's there because, you know, it's there. We're making zero assumptions because we see that all this stuff exists. Now if you say 'God caused all this to happen', you've introduced a new part to it. Now we've got to show that this thing exists. Over to you.
I think we need to define God(s).
The Christian God has been personified into an old man in the clouds. But the real Christian God is an ineffable being.
I realize many of you consider yourselves to be agnostic rather than atheist - you must make this clear, regardless of what you think an Atheist knows there is no God.
