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Using longer sentences and adding arbitrary words does not make an explanation more complex. I was simply pointing out that simplest explanation may not always

• rdiddly 9y ago
  You're in luck, Occam's Razor doesn't say anything about what's always accurate. It's more like advice, telling you to prefer the explanation that requires making the fewest assumptions.
• kps 9y ago
  > Using longer sentences and adding arbitrary words does not make an explanation more complex. Exactly. A creator-god does not explain the complexity of life, it just adds an additional layer, so the combined system is more complicated than the original. That's precisely what Occam's Razor rejects.
• afterburner 9y ago
  > Using longer sentences and adding arbitrary words does not make an explanation more complex. You mean like what you did? "There is God" doesn't explain anything. You're relying on the reader to already know what God is, and how God affects things.
• ucaetano 9y ago
  I'll rephrase again: "A" vs. "A AND there's a being, which is conscious, all-knowing and all-powerful, sitting somewhere, or actually nowhere, that uses its power to set things in motion or not, depending on its mood, and how it likes some people, but by no means follows a steady logic, and also isn't detectable by any means whatsoever and there is absolutely no evidence of its existence, but it exists and has impact on the universe, even if such impact can never be measured or even detected" Now use Occam's Razor?
• bildung 9y ago
  Occam's Razor is about the need of additional assumptions to explain observed behaviour. Existance of a god is a pretty heavy assumption, ergo that explanation is not the simple one.