…mushrooms that had been hiding under the surface previously because it was too wet. That's why the loud hum I hear is William of Ockham spinning in his grave. I see you think that DNA and the expression of genes is a simpler explanation than a divine…

…a simpler explanation than a divine intervention at the level of the novelty wave. I think that the DNA is divine, ah. But William of Ockham Ah escape from his trap, Rupert, what do you as a middleman, I think you see I can't quite get your position…

…may wish to correct me a hundred years either way. But I'm very interested in sort of bringing back and re appreciating William of Ockham who, aside from the things I'm saying about him here which are very nice also had a notion not much appreciated of…

…what he to novelty theories, belief that the universe progresses unto merging, emerging with the nature of god. But the thing about Ockham that bears on all this is of course his famous razor which simply says: it's been interpreted in many ways but…

…of epistemological dialogue we should get rid of statistical analysis, we should dial science back to the late Medieval Period of Ockham and we should do science that way and applying Ockham's Razor, we are quickly able to cut away the underbrush that…

…Mesa. Well I agree but I'm not sure that it's good to rant against the Face of mars because there's no way by William of Ockham or whatever that you could have ruled out the possibility that there was really a pocket watch on mars. And now in fact…

…being, then we need to talk about what the rules are that obtain in the imagination. You know, the 14th century nominalist William of Ockham dealt with questions like, can God do anything? Yes, God can do anything. Then can God make a rock so heavy that…

…rival to science, is in fact, paves the way for science. There would have been no science had there not been William of Ockham, who was a 14th century nominalist theologian. Really, western civilization has had a thousand years to work its magic, and now…