(February 1, 2013 at 5:12 pm)Confused Ape Wrote: If this turns out to be true, evolution in this simulation would have been started by someone who is outside all this. He or she just wouldn't be a supernatural being.
A supernatural being or us would technically be anyone who exists outside of our universe where our laws of physics don't apply. If the creator of the universe isn't uncreated and eternal then they would need a creator as well and so on into infinity so you can't really do that. Gnostic Christians didn't believe that God and the creator were the same thing. The creator of the universe was either evil or incompetent and that explains how you can have a God and a human life that can and does often suck. The creator being was called the Demiurge and was associated the asshole Jewish God of the Old Testament. Jesus was an agent of the good God or Pleroma sent to free humankind of the creator Gods tyranny and the prison of physical matter, rather than sin.
