Another Big Big Thread of Religious Discussion

[Serenity]

You are all missing the point, which is that when you reach questions like that and try to invoke Ockham's Razor (that the shorter formula is more likely to be the more accurate one), the religious explanation will always be the one favored by that type of reasoning.-

"Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity." - Occam's Razor

Young Earth Creationism, for example requires countless entities which are bizarre and contradictory with real world experience. It requires a vast scientific conspiracy to cover up the truth (science is a field which rewards debunking false theories with great prestige - Einstein debunked Newtonian physics, and look at the fame he's got now!), some sort of crazy magical change in the radioactive decay of atoms (in order for that to happen, the mass of subatomic particles would have to change... which would basically kill everything), a fundamentalist Christian God (the only advantage is that this one is defined, unlike many other Gods, but it's still nonsensical because I'm supposed to believe that Mr. sentence-a-man-to-death-for-gathering-sticks-on-the-Sabbath is the same person as Mr. I-love-everyone), a full laugh in the face of evolutionary biology with classifying "micro-evolution" and "macro-evolution" as being different things when they are the same thing over a longer course of time(and then spitting on logic by requiring that we prove macroevolution... when of course humans don't live long enough to see macroevolution in action), ignoring basic geology and claiming that the dinosaurs lived a few thousand year ago because our "highly inaccurate" dating techniques don't agree on when the dinosaurs died out (hint: they do). Furthermore, beyond all that laughing at what we know about the universe, you have to assume that because evolution is wrong (a false premise, but oh well), that therefore God made the Earth in seven days six thousand years ago or less.

And theistic evolution is evolution with an extra term added - God.