Let's Talk About Religion

[Khuutra]

Kasz216 said:

highwaystar101 said:
I think that it is foolish to believe in a personal god because you have zero chance of getting it right. However, I wont dismiss the possibility of a creator per se, if someone could show me evidence for a creator I would be open to reading it, but it needs to be scientific and logical. Not just 'mr X said that he was son of god Y and it says this in book Z, which a fair few millenia old, follow it blindly sinner', which happens far too much and I'm sure most of you notice I go from nice to hostile when that happens.

Premise 1: We are soon on the verge of developing computers that will be able to recreate human minds

Premise 2: As such, we could develop computers that could recreate an entire world or even solar system.

 

Logical conclusion: If this technology became available, we would use it to create these "false" worlds for research, also likely for entertainment.  These false worlds when technologically advanced enough would create there own false worlds.

Logical Conclusion 2: Therefore it's logical to assume that the odds of being a "real" world vs a "fake" world are very small even in a universe that wouldn't have a god.

Logical Conclusion 3:  It's statistically probable we are living in a false world.  AKA a world created by someone else.  It is statistically probably a creator exists.

I don't think that this really follows. Not that we won't be able to create a computer roughly like a human mind (maybe we will one day in the far-flung future, running on trillions of parallel cores all at once), but being able to simulate an entire solar system is literally ridiculous.

Considering how much information there is in any object on the molecular level, and in how these objects interact with one another, in order to create a simulation of the entire universe, you would not only need a complete and working Unified Field Theory, you would need a computer about the size of the universe.