Ockham's razor was kind of necessary in my case. I grew up in a family who had multiple Biblical interpretations, no one ever saw things eye to eye, we have a few people who still held onto Shamanism from being on the reserves, a few neopagans, a Muslim here and there. Science is and was the unifying thing for me that made everyone's belief systems compatible with one another. As long I have science behind me, everyone can co-exist peacefully in my head instead of having voices bickering about who is right and who is wrong with their philosophical discussions. Oh geez, didn't means to sound like a schizophrenic.
But it seems like a lot of people misunderstand how science works, even atheists themselves don't really understand the process.
Given enough time, the germs on your dirty socks could become intelligent life forms. I'm thinking on scale of a hundred million years.
