"Cousin Ricky" <ric### [at] yahoocom> schreef in bericht 
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> "Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet> wrote:
>> Elegant, like William's Razor.
>> Out of curiosity, I just browsed again through William of Occam's book I
>> have here. No easy stuff. He uses his Razor to prove the existence of God 
>> in
>> a "scientific" way.
>
> That's odd, because many people consider God the ultimate violation of
> Occam's razor!  But then, William of Occam didn't have the benefit of
> today's scientific knowledge.  While science has not disproved God, it is
> giving God less and less to do.
>

Yes, but William was living in another age. "Science" did not exist then as 
we know it today, and his razor was anything but "scientific". That has been 
taken up at later times.

Thomas

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