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In a previous article I explained how you cannot use Occam's razor to prove there is no god. In this article I explain why you can use Occam's Razor to prove there is no God.

Jack Copeland told me that you cannot use Occam's razor to prove there is no god because by applying Occam's razor to obective reality it is simpler that the Universe contains only sensory data and no objective reality.

The trouble with this reasoning is that it is more complicated rather than less complicated to hold the belief that there is only sensory data and no objective reality. Each individual human being would need to have their own collection of sensory data that needs keep syncronised with thte sensory data of every other person. This is a vastly more complex arrangement than to just believe that there is only one objective reality.

Therefore you can use Occam's razor to prove there is no afterlife and there is no God. Carl Sagan was correct after all!