  Both religion and science start with basic assumptions that cannot be proved
but are taken on faith. Here I note that one basic assumption that is rather
common in both enterprises is the assumption that in comparing different
hypotheses that all equally explain the observations, the simpler hypotheses
are more probable (Occam's razor or the law of parsimony). That is,
explanations should be made as simple at possible (though no simpler, since
then they would not explain what is observed).
