Orson Scott Card, a Science Fiction Writer who also happens to write great political op/eds that occasionally get posted here, once wrote in one of his novels that the ultimate application of Ockham's Razor is to simply say "God did it." Perhaps there is some truth to that in cosmology. The question for scientists then becomes "How did God do it?" and for the theologian "Why did God do it?" Modern science's outright rejection of higher power(s) is unscientific.
Well said.
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.
An even simpler scenario is to remove the grandiose overcomplication of an infinitely powerful, inifinitely old, infinitely knowing, infinitely etc. being, and just say "stuff happened", since that's as empty and sweeps as much under the rug as the "God did it" waffle -- both make a simple declaration and run away from the messy details of exactly how.
For that matter, even if one insists on including a sentient creator because one hasn't the imagination to envision any other kind of possibility, Ockham's razor would favor an advanced alien from the universe next door working on his Cosmogensis 101 term project, rather than the aforementioned inifinitely infinite being. "Sufficiently powerful" is closer to the spirit of Ockham's razor than "all powerful". After all, one doesn't automatically presume divine creation for a macaroni sculpture.
Perhaps there is some truth to that in cosmology.
And perhaps there isn't.
The question for scientists then becomes "How did God do it?"
Presumes facts not in evidence. One could equally well say that the question for scientists then becomes "How did the invisible pink unicorns do it".
Modern science's outright rejection of higher power(s) is unscientific.
It would be if modern science actually engaged in "outright rejection of higher powers", but since it doesn't, you're just revealing your misunderstandings about science.
That would be a fundamental misunderstanding of Occam's Razor, which has a proper formal construction and is provably correct. "God did it" is not, by any stretch of the imagination, the ultimate application of Occam's Razor and would evaluate as a relatively mediocre hypothesis in mathematical application.
Unfortunately, hardly anyone seems to care what Occam's Razor really means and how to correctly evaluate it. Shortness of sentence has no relation to "simplicity of hypothesis" when applying the Razor.
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