Reply #6: This is b.s. Occam's Razor is important to science and to thought.

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In effect, it today says to go to the simplest account that is compatible with the facts as known. In a complex world, such accounts tend to be very complex, but should be no more complex than necessary. Moreover, assuming the simplest account compatible with known facts has led science repeatedly to both learn new facts and to debunk old ones, leading to the need for more-complex theories to account for them. Thus, the assumption of a uniform past in geology led to the accumulation of sufficient geologic knowledge that the simplest theory consonant with those facts meant the rejection of uniformity -- recognition that the past of the earth was very, very different from today's earth.