(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).
I'm not saying it is impossible that god is a computer and we are part of a program or whatever, but look at it this way.
I've heard of ancient tribes believing that humans are just parasites ontop of a living creature, they believed the earth was a creature and they were the parasites because this was understandable to them, now years later we're still trying to grasp the creation of the universe and relating it to a system familiar to us on this little tiny rock of a planet, instead of just admitting we don't understand it. Instead of parasites on a huge creature it's moved onto it being a computer program.
Again I'm not saying it is impossible I'm just saying people are doing the exact same thing they were doing thousands of years ago and it doesn't explain anything because then where did the computer come from, how was it created?
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