Occam’s Razor is anothe way of statig the “principle of parsimony.” Britannica Concise Encyclopedia states that Occam’s Razor is:Ī rule in science and philosophy stating that entities should not be multiplied needlessly. He stated: “ entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.” This is usually translated: “entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.” Ockham’s formulation of the Razor, like all learned texts of the time, was expressed in Latin. Today, he is best remembered for Occam’s Razor. William of Ockham (or, commonly, “Occam”) was a Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher from the village of Ockham in Surrey, England who lived from the late 1200’s to the mid-1300’s. So, to set things straight, we will discuss first, what the Razor means, and secondly how it applies to the multiverse. One must conclude that either they simply have no idea what Occam’s Razor means or they are deliberately trying to distort its meaning to support their conclusion. The sheer presumption, the overweening fatuity, of these statements (both the commenter’s and Barrau’s) beggars belief. In most cases, it even seems that the existence of many worlds is closer to Ockham’s razor (the principle of simplicity) than the ad hoc assumptions that would have to be added to models to avoid the existence of other universes. Interestingly, this consequence also solves many complexity and naturalness problems. It is simply a consequence of a theory usually built for another purpose. In any case, it is important to underline that the multiverse is not a hypothesis invented to answer a specific question. The commenter cites physicist Aurélien Barrau in support. It is a common misconception among ID supporters that scientists deliberately defy Occam’s Razor and pursue multiverse theories simply because they are uncomfortable with the idea of a designer. In a recent post a commenter turns Occam’s Razor on its head when he states: In their feverish efforts to prop up the teetering materialist paradigm, to justify the unjustifiable, our materialist friends have now resorted to saying, essentially, black is white. Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flipboard Print arroba Email
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