(September 4, 2013 at 10:10 pm)Max_Kolbe Wrote: First, I'm new here. Second I am a Christian. Third this is a serious question/speculation. It will be interesting (and hopefully enlightening) for me to read the responses.
So what if Who (What?) we call God is actually a computer (or a really advanced type of technology that we understand as a computer) and all that we see and detect in the universe is simply a part of a program? I don't imagine this computer is "personal" like the Christian God is, but, I suppose it could have attributes that seem to convey personhood. I imagine that somehow the "computer" is outside of the universe program, or so far "above" it to be, effectively, not part of the universe. I know there was a book about this years ago, but I don't the name of it.
So, is this a reasonable or workable theory? How would one reason it out? Is it possible, through reason or evidence to, if not prove it, make a plausible argument for something like this?
I am interested in reading speculations that are based on reason and from a skeptical and/or atheistic point of view.
(I mentioned that I am Christian just so anyone answering will understand my background. I am not interested in this post in answering questions about my faith. I can go to another thread and do that. Besides, this is an atheist message board, no one here is interested in Christianity).
If we were all part of a giant version of the sims how would we know?
If its at all like microsoft products it would be glitches that would be the tell.
Glitches such as someone being able to walk on water or coming back and walking around after they died.
If any of that happened then you can be sure that we are all in some alien nerds PC.
But then you get the problem of where does the alien live?
What kind of universe does it exist in?
It would not be an answer but the start of many more questions.
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