Mr. Perfect wrote:There are becoming fewer and fewer atheists who don't believe in simulation theory.
They are finding God. The wrong one though.
Taken a bit broader this is right. The fringe-toy theory that we live in a simulation (that can't be tested but that quite some people love to entertain and sell to impressionable new students and other gullible public) is a symptom and expression of a more general hallucination and vulnerability in the hard sciences "prone to atheism" community. Been looking for a word for that type of hallucination, or state of hypnosis. Might come up with one.
Specific point here is that also theories that did survive ongoing empirical verification are simulations. Good simulations that have predictive power and generally find application in technology. But the language, grammar of those successful simulations is very suggestive and can bring whole communities of hard core scientists in a state of serious hypnosis where they start to see reality inside the simulation, attributing the nature of the simulation to that of the reality itself.
There are more than a few brilliant mathematicians and/or physicists, especially since the successes of quantum mechanics, who attribute mathematical characteristics to the nature of reality. This usually leads to close to insane claims quite comparable to the fringe-toy theory of living inside a computerized cosmic simulation. The "many-wolds" theory comes to mind which is by no means fringe or toy. But insane all the same and also untestable, so not worth much of your money.
Non-atheist/religious scientists who got hypnotized by those simulations of reality like to see God as the greatest mathematician of all times. And so on.
My take on finding God is that it may help to look in all places where he is not i.e. to find God via negation, but it will only prove that searching won't deliver what you are looking for. I don't think God wants to be found because that would suggest that he could be lost like a set of keys or is playing hide and seek with us.