[deleuze]

It's funny, because I'd argue that the belief that "the universe is a Turing machine" is a kind of secular religion. Hardcore physicalists often betray themselves as not only being bad materialists but actually just idealists in denial.

[User23]

I have to confess I take some pleasure in asking people that say we're living in a simulation "oh, you're a creationist?"

[webmaven]

An amusing retort, to be sure, but the "creator" could be an entirely automated process, akin to instantiating a VM or container.

In other words, God has been a replaced with a very small shell script.

So, even if an intelligent creator is ultimately responsible for our plane of existence, there may not be much in the way of intent or even observation associated with that responsibility at any scale we would find meaningful.

Heck, who is to say that our particular simulated universe isn't just a honeypot of some sort?