Occam's Razor

Occam's Razor - An example of application

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[iminaDAFUNK]

You over analyze this too much. First, Christmas is a Christian holiday therefore not everyone Celebrates it. That cuts off a couple billion people. But other than that I guess you did fine...

[OccamKant]

@iminaDAFUNK I used Christmas as an explanation and demonstration of how to apply Occam's Razor, so you kind of missed the point.

Also - Christmas is a hijack'd holiday. It was originally a pagan winter solstice celebration called Yule, but those greedy Christians couldn't allow the pagans to have a holiday, so they barged in on it and stole it for themselves.

[TheLaunchingPad]

Here's is where you Fail miserably... by assuming that no being in the universe could ever be smarter than Man. Do you really believe that, with so many writings of men seeing flying Gods? And modern military pilots chasing flying orbs or all the strange "happy accidents" or the numerous claims of people seeing dead loved ones, need I go on? You are saying that everyone in the world is a liar - that's a bold claim. God is not Bigfoot dude. Men refuse the idea of God - so why so many witnesses?

[OccamKant]

@TheLaunchingPad "Here's is where you Fail miserably... by assuming that no being in the universe could ever be smarter than Man."

What the FUCK are you talking about? HOW do I assume that? "The simplest explanation is probably the truth". Do you understand what words mean?

I'm not saying everyone's a liar - but I will say that there are a lot of deluded, crazy people out there. Take yourself for example.

[TheLaunchingPad]

So Moses was a mountain-size ventriloquist who could make rivers come out of rocks and manifest clouds with fire in them that talked? The priests never came out of the Holy place and said, "It's BS - they got a light behind the smoke." Or where is the priest who blew the whistle on the ark of the covenant? This is old Testament and it is proof of God-contact. Now let's talk about the only prophet who was killed by Jews and rose from death - only telling his friends and then left Earth. False?

[OccamKant]

@TheLaunchingPad "So Moses was a mountain-size ventriloquist who could make rivers come out of rocks and manifest clouds with fire in them that talked? "

What the fuck are you talking about? When did I say Moses was a ventriloquist?

[gr8vibes2]

occum to the rescue, works most of the time

[Atheist603]

this guy is canadian,..the way he's say "about" lol

[OccamKant]

@bonajab As for how many "operations" would be perfomed - imagine the surface of the world covered in the base chemicals. There would be billions of interactions every few centimeters, and there are a lot of square centimeters on the surface of the planet.

So much so, that something as unlikely as a trillion to one would happen a billion times a second.

This is completely pulled out of thin air - but I'm confident about the scale we're talking about. Seems completely plausible.

[OccamKant]

@bonajab Remember that abiogenesis (life from non life) is a completely different subject from Evolution (proliferation of species through mutation and natural selection).

I'm interested in abiogenesis, sure - but we're still experimenting to try to develop the hypotheses better. We don't have a solid theory yet, so it's somewhat educated speculation at this point, with some confirming experimentation.

Evolution, on the other hand, is completely solid and verified.