Science, God and Ockham’s razor

Science and God in the election.

God Doesn't Always Shave with Occam's Razor - Learning When and How to Prune

The work shows how a meta-learning technique can be successfully applied to decide when to prune, how much pruning is appropriate and what the best pruning technique is for a given learning task.

Science and the Knowledge of God: From Machine to Metaphor

Science and God: An automatic opposition between ultimate explanations

Science and religion have come into conflict repeatedly throughout history, and one simple reason for this is the two offer competing explanations for many of the same phenomena. We present evidence that the conflict between these two concepts can occur automatically, such that increasing the perceived value of one decreases the automatic evaluation of the other. In Experiment 1, scientific the...

God and science: can we believe in both?

At a recent scientific conference in New York City, a student asked one of the scientists participating in a panel discussion on science and religion a provocative question. “Can you be a good scientist and also believe in God?” The scientist, a Nobel laureate, quickly responded: “Belief in the supernatural, especially belief in God, is not only incompatible with good science, this kind of beli...