Thursday, March 13, 2014

Simplicity as a sign of design

It seems hard to deny that simplicity is a guide to truth in science. But the best account of the simplicity of a theory is brevity of expression in a language whose terms cleave nature at the joints. But that brevity of expression in a language is a guide to truth is a sign that a rational being is behind our universe.

2 comments:

SMatthewStolte said...

Does it matter that God’s intellect is non-discursive?

Alexander R Pruss said...

It might.