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Calvinism Explains Everything...and Nothing

8/07/2006 | Share this article:
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By John W. Loftus

Matthew, a fellow Blogger with me on Debunking Christianity wrote:
"But is it always rational to accept a simpler theory? It is true that simpler theories always have greater explanatory scope. But there is a point where a theory can have too much explanatory power in which it explains everything, and actually doesn't really explain anything because there is no observation or fact which it cannot explain. Such a theory, having too much explanatory power ceases to be a simple theory and becomes simplistic."


I liked what Matthew said so much that I want to use it as a basis for making an argument against Calvinism, if I can.

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