[dcow]

I responded to someone who was having trouble grokking the idea that a relatively simple ruleset could give rise to arbitrarily complex universe-like constructs with coherent physics by pointing out that there is in fact a credible research-backed theory that the universe does emerge from something resembling Conway's game of life.

I don't believe I asserted that pop-science is true just because it's popular. Quite the opposite, in fact.