Occam's razor isn't about how the mind works (although I'd also like to argue the conclusions you draw), it's really just about the simplest explanation.
I know that. You asked me how it was more intuitive not how Occam's razor favors it. So I answered accordingly.
Ah, but I didn't consider the existence of a higher being the intuitive choice.
I do think there is beauty in the universe, but I'd question the order.
That's why I added the word "seemingly" there.
I have never attributed anything in the universe to a higher being because I think the simplest explanation is the one where this is all there is.
Fair enough. Although I'm a bit surprised there because humans, apart from proper scientific knowledge, seem to naturally do the opposite of what you've done.
Which I don't understand. I would assume that there are things I don't know, but I wouldn't take the leap and assume that it's something supernatural, something that cannot be explained. Just that I can't explain it.
There is no proof whatsoever for anything else; any theory that includes a higher being needs to make at least one assumption without observations backing it up.
Ok, back to Occam's razor. Can't something happening for no reason be considered an assumption since it's not something we commonly observe in our daily world?
I should have added "no reason I know about". I'm pretty sure things happen for a reason (as in cause and effect), but I also realise I usually won't know why. I can observe my surroundings and create theories based on what I see as reasonable and observable, but there is no way I would *know*. God is a cop-out when you don't want to think for yourself.
Just playing the Devil's advocate here.
Things don't "just happen" but they happen without divine intervention.
How did the start of the Big Bang happen then if it didn't "just happen"?
In our system, it never did. We can get infinitely close to creation but never all the way.
I would assume that something caused it, of course, but what that something is I don't know. What i don't do is to replace that something with "god" because that is an assumption I can't prove or observe.