Occam's razor suggests that, if some event is physically plausible, we don't need recourse to more extraordinary claims for its being. Surely the requirement of an all-powerful deity who somehow exists outside of our universe, or multiverse, while at the same time governing what goes on inside it, is one such claim. It should thus be a claim of last, rather than first, resort.

The universe does not care what we want.

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.

Occam's razor suggests that, if some event is physically plausible, we don't need recourse to more extraordinary claims for its being. Surely the requirement of an all-powerful deity who somehow exists outside of our universe, or multiverse, while at the same time governing what goes on inside it, is one such claim. It should thus be a claim of last, rather than first, resort.

I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one.

Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.

You are all stardust.