Re: [asa] Anthropic Principle, "proof," and "explanations"

Owen Gingerich gave a couple of excellent lectures at Gordon College last
Monday. One of his side comments in the lectures was "Ockham's Razor is not
a law of physics but a tool of rhetoric."

Randy

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From: "Ted Davis" <TDavis@messiah.edu>
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Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>; "George Cooper" <georgecooper@sbcglobal.net>; "John
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Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 1:33 PM
Subject: [asa] Anthropic Principle, "proof," and "explanations"

.... That is, it fails Ockham's razor quite drastically, by
> multiplying entities way beyond necessity, so far so indeed that we can't
> even count them.

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Received on Sat Dec 8 22:25:48 2007