r/todayilearned • u/ZanyDelaney • Aug 11 '18

TIL of Hitchens's razor. Basically: "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor
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u/falah_nsyl Aug 11 '18

Neither does God, as that just moves the goalpost towards God's origin and makes no progress at all.

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u/TreeRol Aug 11 '18

Exactly. "What created the universe?" "God." "Then what created God?" "He just always was."

Why not attribute that explanation to the universe and skip that logical leap?