Life After Death Is Impossible, Says Scientist

[Irreligious Atheist]

What if we're in a simulation? Can the programmer program us to have life after death?

I am sorry, but this logic fails for the same reason the claim of an All Powerful, always existing god fails.

If humans are a product of a "programmer" then what created that programmer, and what created that programmer. Infinite regress applies, I don't care if one is claiming a god, or some si fi version of a invisible cognition. Both beg the question.

If ifs and butts were candy and nuts, I'd be dating Angelina Jolie. 

Christopher Hitchens, " That which can be asserted without evidence, can just as easily be dismissed without evidence." 

I don't like seeing well intended people who rightfully reject the anthropomorphic human projections of gods of antiquity try to replace the old claims with si fi claims. 

If one rightfully rejects the human like gods of antiquity then it makes no sense to try to replace those claims with "we have some invisible super programmer". It is just a si fi version of old mythology.

The programmer idea is nothing like the God idea. If there's a programmer, they are likely living in a simulation of their own. At some point though, there is base reality which was not created by anyone, so it's nothing fantastical at all like God claims.

"That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." Nope. That's not how science works. Often scientists will come up with a guess and then try to find the evidence. We can dismiss it all we like, but that doesn't mean there's not a chance we're living in a simulation. The real question is can a simulation as complex as our universe exist. Scientists/ programmers are split on whether a simulation like this can even be created, but if such a simulation can possibly be created, it follows that we can say that the odds of us not being in a simulation are one in billions, because there would be far more simulated universes than there would be real universes at base reality. I have no idea whether a simulation as complex as our universe could ever be created though, so I don't really lean one way or the other, but I'm very open to the possibility that we're living in a simulation.