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[โ€“] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly? Without evidence, they're both equally probable. And believing, or refusing to believe in a god or something, are both faith of equal measure.

It's just whether someone thinks their version is faith is more realistic than the opposite.

[โ€“] cynar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

When the results are inseparable, then complexity is the only element, it doesn't prove anything, but it does bias.

Also, most gods don't fall into this debate. Most gods would be quite happy interfering. This is (in principle) distinguishable from the null. It was aimed primarily at the simulation hypothesis. A perfect simulation is indistinguishable from a base reality.