Dear Resident Theists

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No, I'm referring to the fact that our "reality" could be a computer simulation It's not the same as solipsism, as it would apply to everyone. We're all self-aware, but unaware we're in a simulation. We're not actually anywhere else.

It requires very few assumptions, and easily answers where our reality "came from". In fact, it's pretty much the same as God creating things, except it makes use of processes we already know happen. All that it further requires is the assumption that part of the reality can become self aware, which is also required for the God hypothesis. The God one just makes loads of extra assumptions about the nature of the creator.

Of course there are questions about where the parent reality came from, but there are the same questions about God. It's just people tend to make special unfounded rules for God that just ignore this part. We can as easily say the parent reality "just is".

This is of course assuming there really was an external first cause.