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Science, Ockham’s Razor & God

David Glass and Mark McCartney say Ockham’s razor doesn’t cut it with God.

The idea that science has explained God away is very popular. The suggestion is that as science explains more and more about the world there is less and less need for God. Sometimes this is expressed in terms of Ockham’s razor. William of Ockham was a medieval philosopher and theologian, and his famous ‘razor’ is the idea that “It is futile to do with more things that which can be done with fewer.” Applied to science and God, the implication seems to be that if science can explain the world around us on its own, there is no need for science and God.

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