Thread:User talk:Tmtoulouse/Bump: You know that obnoxious thing people do on the internet when they've said something and they feel they haven't been paid enough attention? I'm doing that./reply (16)

Well, then it all comes down to what is the correct version of the "principle of parsimony" or "Occam's razor", which I have been debating back and forth with Röstigraben recently. A couple of points open to dispute:
 * 1) Is "God does not exist" really simpler than "God exists"? Atheists make that claim, but I am not convinced
 * 2) The principle of parsimony says to avoid unnecessary complexity. The question is, what determines whether extra complexity is "necessary" or not. You say it is only necessary if it adds explanatory power. But, it is open to someone to argue that human thought performs other purposes than just explanation, and that a complication, which may be unnecessary for explanation, may yet be necessary for other purposes