Occam's Razor requires a set of facts from which to work... The problem is the "facts" the current comet theorist have been using have been shot down, one by one, by their own comet expeditions.
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Amen.
That old Shiboleth gets so wearying. It's like some unalterable and automatically new idea shredding something from some super Mt Sinai in terms of how the poster citing it usually flings it about.
There's some merit in simple explanations, certainly--in a vast number of contexts.
But a lot of times, the naysayers seem absolutely oblivious to how convoluted, twisted, tortured, complex etc. current traditionalist explanations are compared to alternative ones. Hypocrisy runs rampant in the application of Ocam's razor, it seems to me.
And, interestingly, a lot of the Ocam Razor Flingers seem oblivious to the simplest explanation around for a lot of things about the Cosmos.
God is.
"Moreover, if gravity were a complete theory, it would show a full range of transitional forms. No one has ever found the missing links in gravity; instead it is presented as fact, with no adequate explanation of its origins. Gravity has not been shown to be irreducibly complex, which undermines the claims for a universal theory.
"There are numerous alternative theories that should be taught on an equal basis. For example, the observed behavior of the earth revolving around the sun can be perfectly explained if the sun has a net positive charge and the planets have a net negative charge, since opposite charges attract and the force is an inverse-square law, exactly as the increasingly discredited Theory of Gravity. Physics and chemistry texts emphasize that this is the explanation for electrons going around the nucleus, so if it works for atoms, why not for the solar system? The answer is simple: scientific orthodoxy. "