Occam’s Razor: Illustrated.

Posted by Les on Thursday, January 03, 2008 at 02:30 PM. Read 651 times. Tags: , , ,
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I saw this a couple of weeks ago and thought it was both amusing and illuminating, but forgot to post it at the time. So here it is:


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scenter United States Posted on 01/03/2008 at 04:07 PM

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Very Good!, but it is incomplete.  There are schisms in other religions...Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc all have various branches too, so a truer picture would have a lot more forks in the top diagram!

Still, I like it for it’s picture-worth-a-thousand-words effect.

Bahamat United Kingdom Posted on 01/03/2008 at 05:55 PM

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And of course, all their truebelievers™ all believe every word of the same book - and yet are different

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trailrider United States Posted on 01/03/2008 at 07:55 PM

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Our part of the graph, while certainly the simplest, is kind of boring, eerrr straight.  Perhaps we need a schism.  You know, the utheists against the otheists.  We could have arguments, call each other names, have our own colors and slogans, and maybe go to war.  At least our graph would not be so, uh, straight.

decrepitoldfool United States Posted on 01/03/2008 at 09:31 PM

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We have a schism of our very own already, between atheists, who don’t believe there’s a god, and “New Atheists™”, who don’t believe there’s a god, and you have to be a complete dick about it.  cool smirk

Kidding!  Just kidding!

QueenMillefiori United States Posted on 01/03/2008 at 10:22 PM

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Even better is the fact that atheist have been around a lot longer than Christians. Socrates was an atheist. Heck the Romans thought early Christians were atheists.

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Last_Hussar United Kingdom Posted on 01/03/2008 at 10:47 PM

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You want Schism?

I say that when the first life form appeared it was A.M.  Prove me wrong.

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THEOCRAT United States Posted on 01/04/2008 at 03:28 PM

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You forgot the Occam’s Razor picure that shows shelves of biology books, paleontology books, scientific journals and naturalist philosophy books compared to the scrap of paper that says, “God did it.” tongue wink

THEOCRAT United States Posted on 01/04/2008 at 03:54 PM

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QueenMillefiori, what leads you to believe Socrates is an atheist?  He makes several references to the gods and a god and describes several things that happen as having a divine origin.  IEP disagrees with you.

QueenMillefiori United States Posted on 01/04/2008 at 09:09 PM

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Sorry I mean to say that he was accused of being an atheist (because he did not believe in the Athenian state mandated gods and was interested in exploring physical explanations for nature).

http://socrates.clarke.edu/aplg0104.htm, though I’ve never been convinced of the 100% accuracy of the Apology.

Sorry for the confusion, I should have previewed before I posted.

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