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Funny, I lean towards the opposite conclusion: That system based entirely on random coincidental collision of matter is more likely to have sprung forth from pure random chance rather than the mind of some individual omniscient being. No matter how all-powerful she might be.

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There are multiple definitions of god. The crude one that is commonly used doesn't have to be only one. Its within the realm of possibility that there are entities that exist in a completely different substrate of existence. For us, time is experienced in a particular way because we also exist inside the same space-time. Maybe the 13 billion years of the universe, is like 13 billion cycles of a CPU which are tiny in our time-scale.

"Maybe the 13 billion years of the universe, is like 13 billion cycles of a CPU which are tiny in our time-scale."

That would be some hell of IPCs.

I've always felt that putting our universe inside some larger context is a punt (American Football reference). Weather that's saying we are a thing within some creators context, or that it's a simulation, all that does is push the questions of "what is all this" and "where did it come from" to a next level up that we can't see and have no hope of answering those questions.

If you think we live in the Matrix then all fundamental questions of existence can be asked about the "outer" world instead. It can't be turtles all the way down.

Oh, I didn't mean to imply that we should simply accept it as fact. I'm merely saying that we can have multiple theories. Certainly, we should only go where the evidence leads us.

Can we ever answer those most fundamental of questions? What pushing it one level up does do is show that we do not have enough information to answer it at our current level —- and if we ever create simulated universes of our own, it shows that perhaps you could never know the answer at any level.

If this system is all made from random mutation than I should expect my body could possiblely go brick every second. But it still works perfectly util now.

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