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In order to avoid believing in just one God we are now asked to believe in an infinite number of universes, all of them unobservable just because they are not part of ours. The principle of inference seems to be not Occam's Razor but Occam's Beard: "Multiply entities unnecessarily.

J. Budziszewski
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Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occam’s razor, which states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. They assume that the most likely explanation is miraculous resurrection through some unproven divine connection, but more likely scenarios include a stolen body, a mismarked grave, a planned removal, faulty reports, creative storytelling, edited scriptures, etc. No magic required.

David G. McAfee
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Occam's Razor is a term plagiarized by the fact it is not easy to find its source and meaning. My attempts to find an author lead me nowhere, and I can only find unsatisfactory descriptions of how it works. Therefore, it is meaningless to me and I will use it as a placeholder to define:That which is unnecessary tends to be false.Necessity is by purpose.Therefore, purpose writes itself.Now, I have a tool.

Michael Brett Turner
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Simple is never that simple.

Philip Roth, American Pastoral
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Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.

Victor J. Stenger, God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
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Let's Look at Subjective Religious Experiences This Way:What if ten thousand people went up to a mountain top, saw something, and then they all disagreed with what they saw, even people who largely agreed with each other? Even with this best possible analogy to subjective religious experiences we would still have a reason to think the lack of oxygen caused them all to hallucinate.

John W. Loftus
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The complex order we now observe [in the universe] could *not* have been the result of any initial design built into the universe at the so-called creation. The universe preserves no record of what went on before the big bang. The Creator, if he existed, left no imprint. Thus he might as well have been nonexistent.

Victor J. Stenger, God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
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The razor bumps and the stretch marks will let you know adulthood charges a fee.

Byron Sogie-Thomas, Razor Bumps and Stretch Marks
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But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.

Ann Aguirre, Restoration
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The path to Salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor's edge.

W. Somerset Maugham
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