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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
I personally do not see any difference between the two statements. Then my interpretation of Occam’s Razor is accept all entities (hypotheses) needed to explain the system and no more. So as applies to God an religion;
Is an invisible sky spirit with magic powers needed to explain the world around us and if not . . .
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Given that Occam's Razor is more correctly quoted as "do not multiply entities unnecessarily" (compared to the common "the simplest solution is likely correct") it's very close to the Einstein quote - especially with the "unnecessarily" clause.