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October 1, 2024 at 1:16 am
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Are we living in a simulation? Scientist claims we're simply characters in an advanced AI world - and says the proof is hidden in the BIBLE
Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth, claims our entire universe may be an advanced computer simulation.
Gospel of John opens with the powerful statement: 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.'
He argues that 'the Word' in this famous sentence refers to the underlying computer code that governs and controls the simulation.
As anyone who has seen The Matrix will know, any computer simulation, big or small, consists of letters and numbers that write the rules for the entire creation.
The academic further argues that 'the Word was God' could mean that God is part of the simulation, rather than separate from it.
In other words, the entity that is controlling the whole thing – God – is written into the code too.
Professor Vopson explains: 'The code running the simulation is not separate from the divine, but rather an integral part of it, perhaps an AI.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...BIBLE.html
Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth, claims our entire universe may be an advanced computer simulation.
Gospel of John opens with the powerful statement: 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.'
He argues that 'the Word' in this famous sentence refers to the underlying computer code that governs and controls the simulation.
As anyone who has seen The Matrix will know, any computer simulation, big or small, consists of letters and numbers that write the rules for the entire creation.
The academic further argues that 'the Word was God' could mean that God is part of the simulation, rather than separate from it.
In other words, the entity that is controlling the whole thing – God – is written into the code too.
Professor Vopson explains: 'The code running the simulation is not separate from the divine, but rather an integral part of it, perhaps an AI.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...BIBLE.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"