Ockham's Razor

I have come to the conclusion that much of what I believe can be best described using the principle called Ockham's Razor which states:

… entities should not be multiplied needlessly. … that the simplest of two or more competing theories is preferable and that an explanation for unknown phenomena should first be attempted in terms of what is already known. Also called law of parsimony.

In simpler terms; the simplest explanation is (most often) the correct one.

For example: Evolutionary theory states that life on Earth formed originally when amino acids combined to form proteins, which in turn formed single cell organisms, which (I'm a little unclear on how here) joined to become larger and successively larger animals until finally life evolved into that which we know today. Compare this to the Bible:

Genesis 1:20-22: And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created the great sea monsters, and every creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every bird after its kind.” And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

Genesis 1:24, 25: And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind …” And God saw that it was good.

(verses quoted from the American Standard Version, the ASV)

Let me answer a question with a question: Which would be easier to consider? That I took flour, egg, sugar, milk and a pinch of salt and made a cake by mixing the ingredients together in the right amounts and baking them in the oven; or that I dumped all the ingredients into a pan (no idea of how much of what) and stuck it into the oven … and expected it to evolve into a cake? If you picked the second option, the next time my wife and I come for dinner I'm bringing dessert because I don't think yours will turn out all that well.