On Swinburne's own principle of parsimony, omni-theism should predict the simplest possible universe God needs to create, not a universe with an additional layer of simple physical structure beneath complex appearances.

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Parsimony (in philosophy)(a core concept in evaluating competing theories): The principle of avoiding unnecessary complexity; choosing explanations that make fewer claims or assumptions.
Swinburne(in philosophy of religion): Richard Swinburne, a famous British philosopher who wrote about God, religion, and the problem of evil—he argued that God's existence can be rationally defended despite the existence of evil in the world.
omni-theism(Used as the target hypothesis being challenged by probabilistic atheistic arguments): The belief in the existence of an omni-God (a God possessing all-encompassing attributes such as omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence)
principle of parsimony(Feigl 1967, p. 94): A scientifically well-established principle that opposes speaking of two or more concepts when the evidential facts, though completely correlated, are qualitatively heterogeneous

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