[laredo44]

the ultimate application of Ockham's Razor is to simply say "God did it."

Saying "god did it" is in fact the exact answer that was offered for millennium. Somehow, I don't believe Ockham intended that his razor carve away until nothing but ignorance remained.

[microgood]

Somehow, I don't believe Ockham intended that his razor carve away until nothing but ignorance remained.

Ockham no doubt meant that one day a bolt of lightning hit a bubbling pot of primordial soup and out popped a dinosaur with a 3 billion molecule long DNA sequence and an attitude. After all, lets keep it simple.

[GaretGarrett]

[Saying "god did it" is in fact the exact answer that was offered for millennium.]
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And after a brief Darwin/Marx/Freud (3 up, 3 down :o) insanity interlude, has been confirmed to everyone but a tiny band of the Faithful who roam the hills muttering quotes from Mencken & clutching a grainy black & white VHS of "Inherit The Wind".

[MEGoody]

"Somehow, I don't believe Ockham intended that his razor carve away until nothing but ignorance remained."

And it is the height of ignorance to simply dismiss the idea that 'God did it' because it doesn't suit one's idea of an what comprises 'free thought' or 'an open mind' or 'intellectuality'.