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Wayne VanTassel <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 10 Jul 1999 09:02:48 -0500
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At 07:42 AM 7/10/99 GMT, you wrote:
>On Sat, 10 Jul 1999 15:58:53 +1000, Ben Balzer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>Paleo is the answer because of Occam's Razor*-
>> [...]
>>*- "The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be
>>correct."
>
>This is an interesting observation.
>
>The ruling assumption in modern society is the opposite, ie that only
simpletons
>believe anything is simple.

Not to offend the true believers (in the Bible or in paleo) but this
reminds me of the old saying:

to every complex problem there is a simple solution -- which is invariably
wrong

wayne

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