Many people don’t find the simulation hypothesis interesting. Whether it’s an ‘argument’ or not depends on whether you think there’s any evidence for it; but it’s hard to see what could count as evidence for a claim that the world is different from how we think it is, but looks exactly the same. And like the other …
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Would living in a simulation created by super intelligent beings make more sense than a belief in God to an atheist?
The reason most atheists give for not believing in gods is that there is no evidence of gods. Since there is also no evidence that we are ‘living in a simulation’—whatever that actually means—most atheists can be expected to regard this claim in exactly the same way.
Why it doesn’t matter whether we’re ‘living in a simulation’
There are signs that increasingly desperate theists are going to seize on some of the foolish things that are being said about simulated universes to try and support their claims about gods and the supernatural. Atheists can expect to be routinely dealing with it soon, just as we already have to deal routinely with ill-informed …
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