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> We can take the universal genetic code and with effort change it into something completely different ... just as viable, but doesn’t exist in nature. In fact, observed universality ... is sufficient evidence for common descent.

Or, some would argue, evidence of a common designer.

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Some people argue that the moon is made of cheese. I don’t think that merits a mention either.

It’s baffling to me these findings get closer and closer to software, some papers even use the term ‘design’, still other materials postulate our universe could be a simulation, and yet it’s mockable to consider whether there’s something cleverer than ourselves outside our universe that caused thus to be so.

The question seems the same as, could an AI in a virtual world deduce or prove its artificialness or the reality outside the virtual?

To me that’s more interesting than the simple credulity implied by moon cheese.

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