Actually I seem to recall quite a good argument somewhere on the binary qualities of the universe in that it could quite easily be a computer program running on a huge computer somewhere. I don't think this was on a religious/atheist forum - it might have been on an IT forum or a physics one.
More interesting than the God question, however, was the assumption from that that we too could therefore build our own universes in time - given sufficient processing power and storage.
If we are programs within the universe program then reality and virtual reality merge and the one would, by definition, be indistinguishable from the other.
Other areas to consider would include the possibility of multiple universe programs running simultaneously, that the operator(s) may not be the same as the user(s) and may not be the original programmer(s). In fact it is quite unlikely all three even know each other.
The problem is - where do you go from there? There is no reason for us to presume, at this stage, that the universe is a computer program. Unless and until such time as we find a bug (that we can recognise from inside the program) its an unprovable hypothesis.
More interesting than the God question, however, was the assumption from that that we too could therefore build our own universes in time - given sufficient processing power and storage.
If we are programs within the universe program then reality and virtual reality merge and the one would, by definition, be indistinguishable from the other.
Other areas to consider would include the possibility of multiple universe programs running simultaneously, that the operator(s) may not be the same as the user(s) and may not be the original programmer(s). In fact it is quite unlikely all three even know each other.
The problem is - where do you go from there? There is no reason for us to presume, at this stage, that the universe is a computer program. Unless and until such time as we find a bug (that we can recognise from inside the program) its an unprovable hypothesis.
