• johsny@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Could be, but evolution makes God redundant, and then it is the whole simplest explanation thing that kicks in, right?

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      5 months ago

      Occam’s razor doesn’t mean that the simplest explanation is always true, but rather that it’s usually the most likely to be true.

      Using simplicity as a measure of how likely something is to be true always felt a little anthropocentric. How do we determine that something is simple if not via the systems and abstractions that are easy for human minds to comprehend?