Thursday, May 6, 2010

Occam's Razor And The Gulf Oil Spill ?????

Draw your own conclusions:

There were no warning signs, nor has there been and reported. The oil rig just blew up, for no seeming reason?

This happened the day before Earth Day 2010, just a coincidence?

There have been no surviving crew interviews with the press, they are under lock down?

A small twin engine plane went off the radar near the platform minutes before the first fires broke out minutes later. The plane left Cuba???

Your a nut job if you mention this could have been a terrorist act just like flight 800 off of NY or flight 427 over Pittsburgh???

A lot of nuts thought the world was round,but we all know they are just crazy and the world is flat!

This has put the stop to what was I am sure was the Obama administration's number one objective drilling for oil off shore!


This spill within 6 months will have gas prices in the US at $6.24 per gallon!


Thank God GM is going to be turning out those electric cars powered by those clean burning coal fired plants we hear so much about!


Occam's razor (or Ockham's razor[1]), is the meta-theoretical principle that "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity" (entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem) and the conclusion thereof, that the simplest solution is usually the correct one.

The principle is attributed to 14th-century English logician, theologian and Franciscan friar, William of Ockham. Occam's razor may be alternatively phrased as pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate ("plurality should not be posited without necessity")[2]. The principle is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae (translating to the law of parsimony, law of economy or law of succinctness). When competing hypotheses are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selection of the hypothesis that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities while still sufficiently answering the question. It is in this sense that Occam's razor is usually understood. To quote Isaac Newton, "We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. Therefore, to the same natural effects we must, so far as possible, assign the same causes."[3]

In science, Occam’s razor is used as a heuristic (rule of thumb) to guide scientists in the development of theoretical models rather than as an arbiter between published models.[4][5] In the scientific method, Occam's razor is not considered an irrefutable principle of logic, and certa