If God made us in his image, he gave us the desire to search for the truth and to determine the ultimate nature of existence. I believe in God, and my beliefs as to the inherent nature of the universe are fully compatible with that. In fact they make everything tie together nicely and make a lot of sense. The great thing about science is that we might one day prove reality is a simulation, which would mean that we do, in fact, have a creator. It would completely destroy atheism with facts.Adama wrote:That's why I no longer consider degreed professionals as necessarily being highly intelligent people by default. How could I? When there are medical doctors who believe in alien cults (not pointing fingers at anyone, just saying from YT documentaries and such). Anyone can believe anything despite how smart they think they are or how much money they make. Plenty of rich people who are spiritually idiots, willing to believe in any kind of nonsense. And the more you think about it, it makes sense, because it is hard for a rich man to believe in Christ by faith alone. (Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.) And we know, if a person doesn't believe in Christ, they therefore believe in some type of nonsense, because all else is nonsense.MrMan wrote:There are always some physicist out there that wll jump on to a weird, popular, but false theory.Winston wrote:Yes I've been researching that too. The simulation hypothesis started out as a weird quacky theory 10 years ago and no one took it seriously. But now, many prominent physicists are saying that the simulation hypothesis is very likely, in fact more likely to be true than not. Some even say it's a certainty. And in the last 5 years they've found more evidence to support it. So it's being taken seriously now. I would say it's one of the likely possibilities, besides the ET custodial theory.HouseMD wrote:http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
This is the more likely scenario, IMO. We're very likely a simulation of an advanced race's past, and potential visitors could just be those of that advanced race utilizing avatars to study the past via a first-person frame of reference.
Until we can prove otherwise, logic dictates that we are probably in a computer simulation? Uhh... No it doesn't.
Why did this theory only become popular after The Matrix?
Btw, doctor who was in a computer generated world called the matrix back in the 1980s when Tom Baker played the role.
We'll see how the experiments turn out- there's currently some going on that are attempting to determine if the universe is essentially pixelated (with a fixed, smallest particle size), or if matter exists upon fixed grids (making matter moves between line A and B with nothing in between), either of which would essentially prove the universe is not, in fact, real.