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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Something from nothing? (William of Ockham [Occam] & Arthur Conan Doyle

“When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains--however improbable--must be the truth.”


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


"Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate", "Plurality must never be posited without necessity".

For Ockham, the only truly necessary entity is God; everything else, the whole of creation, is radically contingent through and through.[17]

William of Ockham (c. 1285–1349)


It is with good reason that nothing cannot creating something. non-living cannot create life nor can unconsciousness creat consciousness. Chance cannot create order, fine-tuned engineering, logic and reason. Chance randomness cannot be responsible for the extremely irreducibly complexity in human cells, DNA, and the finely tuned order of the celestial bodies in space. This flies in the face of credulity, making a mockery of the school of logic. The law of cause and effect states that an effect must have a cause equal to or greater than itself. Therefore since non-living, non-thinking, chance/randomness, etc is exponentially lesser than what has been created, we can safely conclude that it could never be the cause. Philosophical naturalism is not logical and so is Darwinian Macro-evolution. These are now accepted by faith, religiosity, and not by proper scientific investigation. The Scientific method should remain in the study of evidence and the classification of things and not metapyhiscal and philosophical assertions made on unproven assumptions or biases.


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