Occam's Razor Ever since Q mentioned Occam's Razor I have been reading about it. I bought a book called "Occam's Razor, The Application of a Principle to Political Economy, to the Conditions of Progress, to Socialism, to Politics." I found out from this book that DARWIN didn't even believe in DE-POPULATION, but an English CLERIC, who obviously didn't TRUST GOD enough to know what HE WAS DOING by creating people HE KNEW would be born, before the world even existed. This CLERIC wanted DE-POPULATION. THIS "CLERIC" reminds me of Bill Gates. This info is from WIKIPEDIA.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (/ˈmælθəs/; 13/14 February 1766 – 23 December 1834)  was an English cleric, scholar and influential economist in the fields of political economy and demography. In his 1798 book An Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus observed that an increase in a nation's food production improved the well-being of the populace, but the improvement was temporary because it led to population growth, which in turn restored the original per capita production level. In other words, humans had a propensity to utilize abundance for population growth rather than for maintaining a high standard of living, a view that has become known as the "Malthusian trap" or the "Malthusian spectre". Populations had a tendency to grow until the lower class suffered hardship, want and greater susceptibility to famine and disease, a view that is sometimes referred to as a Malthusian catastrophe. Malthus wrote in opposition to the popular view in 18th-century Europe that saw society as improving and in principle as perfectible. Malthus saw population growth as being inevitable whenever conditions improved, thereby precluding real progress towards a UTOPIAN SOCIETY: "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man". As an Anglican cleric, he saw this situation as divinely imposed to teach virtuous behaviour. Malthus wrote that "the increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence"; "population does invariably increase when the means of subsistence increase"; and "the superior power of population is repressed by moral restraint, vice and misery". Malthus criticized the Poor Laws for leading to inflation rather than improving the well-being of the poor. He supported taxes on grain imports (the Corn Laws). His views became influential and controversial across economic, political, social and scientific thought. Pioneers of evolutionary biology read him, notably Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. He remains a much-debated writer.