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In the philosophy of religion, Occam's razor is sometimes applied to the existence of God. William of Ockham himself was a Christian . He believed in God, and in the authority of Christian scripture ; he writes that "nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by ...
^α De contemptu mundi (book 1, v. 952) satirical work by Bernard of Cluny, a Benedictine monk of the 12th century who attacked the corruption of the laity and the Church of his time and who mentioned the nominalistic polemic of the 12th century against the reality of universals: a debate that, according to philosophical historiography, Occamism will take up in the 14th century. [5]
Singular, per Occam's razor, in the absence of good reasons to believe in the existence of more than one uncaused cause. Based upon this analysis, he appends a further premise and conclusion: [ 7 ] If the universe has a cause, then an uncaused, personal Creator of the universe exists who sans (without) the universe [ 8 ] is beginningless ...
William of Ockham was born in Ockham, Surrey, around 1287. [6] He received his elementary education in the London House of the Greyfriars. [15] It is believed that he then studied theology at the University of Oxford [9] [10] from 1309 to 1321, [16] but while he completed all the requirements for a master's degree in theology, he was never made a regent master. [17]
See God of the Gaps. One example of this argument is the Christological argument: the claim that historical evidence proves that Jesus Christ rose from the dead and that this can be explained only if God exists. Another is the claim that many of the Qur'an's prophecies have been fulfilled and that this too can be explained only if God exists.
From an atheistic viewpoint, the problem of evil is solved in accordance with the principle of Occam's razor: the existence of evil and suffering is reconciled with the assumption that an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God exists by assuming that no God exists.
Occam's razor; Omnipotence paradox; Parody religion; Poor design; ... it is the very omnipotence of God which makes the existence of such a stone absolutely ...
Ecumenical interpretations of the wager [34] argues that it could even be suggested that believing in a generic God, or a god by the wrong name, is acceptable so long as that conception of God has similar essential characteristics of the conception of God considered in Pascal's wager (perhaps the God of Aristotle). Proponents of this line of ...