Inquisitor Posted April 14, 2009 Posted April 14, 2009 In the bible, the universe is created in six days. (in the seventh day God resteth...) Now, many say this cannot be so. I say, why not? It is possible, but only if we see the world as a computer generated simulation. Take a computer game, say, Oblivion. When you are in the gameworld, it seems like the place is thousands of years old, with ancient ruins, huge teeming cities and so forth. But it is not. It was created by your computer in couple of minutes (the start up time during which the world of oblivion was generated inside your computers memory) The same could be the case with our universe. It could well be a simulation inside a complex AI machine brain the size of a planet. Thusly the six days of creation could easily be seen as the time this huge computer spend in booting up and generating the universe, including the generation on a billion year history complete with fossils and whatnots. The simulation was started from base matter, which was set to motion with base laws. Time was then rushed fast forward. Generations of single cell organisms rise and fell in seconds. Dinosaurs came and went in mere hours. Till at day six AI detected awareness in the program. At which point the computer slowed time down and called up God. Brillliant, said God. This worked better than expected. Genuine emergent awareness intelligence inside AI! One for the books, no doubt about it! And then God descendeth upon his universe and started fiddling with the intelligent life forms he found therein. With us humans he took away our fur, and gave us better posture by some simple DNA mutating sub program. Then he got bored and left us in the hands of his son, Jesus. Who seems to be a nice chap, if a bit of a hippie, so no worries! Note: Of course, before God could boot up the universe, he had to write the code and build the computer. This of course took several decades. And I suppose there were several test runs before He came up with this universe we are living in!
lucaspa Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 In the bible, the universe is created in six days. (in the seventh day God resteth...) Now, many say this cannot be so. I say, why not? It is possible, but only if we see the world as a computer generated simulation.... The same could be the case with our universe. It could well be a simulation inside a complex AI machine brain the size of a planet. The problems with this idea are theological, not scientific. Science can't address this. Yes, it's possible, just like we could be living in the Matrix -- which also is a computer simulation. However, religion must reject it because it has God lying to us. All the evidence of our senses says there is a real, objective universe out there, not a computer simulation. What's more, that evidence says the universe is billions of years old and developed over those billions of years. If you accept this idea, you have made God a colossal liar. But theists rely on God being truthful about things that matter a great deal to theists: salvation, forgiveness of sins, an afterlife, etc. But if God can lie to us about the nature of the universe, you can't trust God about these things. No, it's not going to be science that rejects this idea, but religion. In fact, religion already rejected it. Basically, this is a variation on the Oomphalos argument. That was decisively rejected in 1858 and the decade afterward. While it preserves a 6 day Creation, it destroys God.
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