(July 26, 2013 at 5:53 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: I didn't say that Occam's Razor isn't applicable to God, just that the multiverse hypothesis being proposed for the explicit reason of voiding fine-tuning does so much more.
Actually, any expansion of our understanding of the outer-boundaries of reality automatically makes the idea of God all the more softer flesh for the Razor to slice through. How can we deny the parsimony of God creating a single universe yet accept it if there is an infinity of universes out there? Theists have done their best to maximize every attribute their god possesses, in order to win all those dick-measuring contests. If the multiverse theory turns out to be true, believers would waste no time in altering their beliefs the fraction necessary to think that their god created all of the infinite universes. This new version of God would, to any reasonable skeptic, inspire a commensurately higher skepticism in the likelihood of God's existence.
Multiverse theory is more accommodating to Occam simply because its truth would force theists to move the goalposts beyond this new line of understanding.
