Occam's Razor can successfully defend the existence of God

His laws of motion have explained a lot to us that we never knew. He was also a lay theologian. Newton happened to be a Christian. Actually he was a Catholic, which many protestants do not consider a true Christian. But he believed in God and he believed in Jesus and loved them. So for the purposes of this paper, we will call him a Man of God, or a Man of Faith. He believed that religion and science could coincide. I happen to believe the same thing. Only, I came this realization through a different means. A few years ago I was watching an episode of Law & Order SVU and the episode dealt with a family of Christian Scientists who had a son with cancer. Christian Scientists rely only on prayer for healing and shun doctors. At the end of the episode the son who had cancer had a relapse and the cancer came back more aggresively. He was sitting on a bed in the hospital when Detective Stabler came to see him. I will never forget the boy's words: If God made everything and everything He made was good, then he would have had to make doctors too. That immediately struck me as true. Doctors are essentially scientists. They research ways to heal people and they help people. So in this sense, religion and science go hand in hand. It also goes hand in hand when trying to explain the existence of the universe. I don't believe you can have one without the other. An explanation of the creation of the universe cannot be fully explained by science alone, as it cannot be explained by religion alone. That being said, if I absolutely had to pick one over the other, I would err on the side of religion. I have had many an atheist criticize me and other Christians for believing in creationism. They say it does not adequately answer the question of how everything came to be. This is why they tout evolution and the Big Bang. They feel it definatively explains how the universe and humans came to be. I submit that it did not come simply by magic as the scientific atheist seems to claim. There was a big explosion that created the planets and stars. Where did this explosion come from? What caused it? I like to use the illusion of a ladder. You start at the top of the ladder and work your way down. Each rung down is what caused the previous thing. What caused the big bang? What caused the thing that caused the thing that caused the big bang? And so on and so fourth. The ladder may be longer for some people or shorter. Eventually everyone is going to be stumped. At that time the wise thing for these supposedly hyper intelligent scientific atheists to do is to admit at least the POSSIBILTY of the existence of God. That is how I personally prefer to approach debates with atheists. But there are the Christians who are content with simply saying that the universe was created by God without any further explanation. And as much as I, a Christian, hate to admit it, they have a point. The point is supported by Occam's Razor. Occam's Razor is the idea that the simplest explanation is often the best explanation when explaining a phenomena. And when an atheist asks a Christian, "How was the universe and everything in it created" the simplest answer REALLY IS "God did it". So therefore, according to Occam's Razor, is the best answer. The best answer should be accepted. I have been told that this is not the "simplest" answer, but rather the "most simplistic". The term simplistic is what is called a pejorative. A pejorative is essentially an insult. When the scientific atheist resorts to making an insult, he loses all credibility. Finally we can explain the "how", and by a small default the "what", either using my method or Occam's Razor, the "where" and "when" do not matter. But what about the "why"? Does science explain why the universe was created? Absolutely not. However in Rick Warren's book, The Purpose Driven Life, Pastor Warren gives an explanation on the why: Because God wanted to. Again this is the simplest answer and if we refer back to Occam's Razor, being the simplest answer, it is the best answer.