Scientists have floated the idea that humans live in a computer game controlled by aliens, and a UFO expert has suggested that this would explain the diversity of religions.
Nick Pope, who led the British government’s UFO project in the 1990s, told that simulation theory is the reason beliefs vary.
He explained that the opposing ideologies could be that the intelligence behind what we call our reality presented different requirements to the designers and mistakes were made in the programming.
“In cosmology there often seems to be a discrepancy between theory and observation,” Pope said.
“In religious terms, it would be as if several different gods were involved in the creation of the universe and all had their different styles.”
Scientists have floated the idea that humans live in a computer game controlled by aliens, and a UFO expert has suggested that this would explain the diversity of religions
Pope is one of several UFO experts featured in the new documentary “Gods Versus Aliens,” which examines whether life as we know and perceive it is just a simulation created by aliens for an unknown purpose is designed and controlled.
The film highlights the religious belief that a higher power created our universe, but suggests that the higher power may be an alien race.
“Every aspect of human society would be profoundly influenced by open contact with extraterrestrials, and nowhere would that influence be greater than when it comes to religion,” Pope told .
“There are so many variables that the outcome is difficult, if not impossible, to predict.”
“What if advanced civilizations viewed religion as primitive superstition and we found that we lived in a predominantly atheistic universe?”
“What if there was a dominant religion in the universe that we thought was crazy, but aliens came here as zealous missionaries intent on converting us?”
Pope also emphasized that if our reality is a simulation, is religion programmed into the game or did it arise spontaneously?
He also believes the theory would explain fundamental discrepancies within individual religions, such as the discrepancy between the Old and New Testaments.
Nick Pope, who led the British government’s UFO project in the 1990s, told that the simulation theory would clarify why every religion believes its god created the universe
“Christians say the Bible is the word of God, but the Old Testament has plagues and lightning and an angry, vengeful God who has no intention of wiping out most of his creations if they don’t worship him.”
“The New Testament is very different and tries to focus on themes of kindness and forgiveness.”
“How could we test this theory? If religion is simply a construct of programmers who designed our universe, then perhaps one of those programmers left an Easter egg, just as film and television makers occasionally incorporate some sort of inside joke into a production.
“Maybe they would insert something hilariously nonsensical in the middle of a dark sacred text.”
He provided with an excerpt from the Bible: “From there Elisha went to Bethel.”
“As he was walking down the street, some youths from the city came and mocked him. “Get up there, you bald guy!” They said. “Get up, you bald head!” He turned around, looked at her and cursed her in the name of the LORD.
“Then two bears came out of the forest and mauled forty-two of the youths.”
“Something so absurd could certainly never be in the Bible.” “But if you check the Old Testament, 2 Kings 2:23-24, you’ll find it,” Pope said.
Mark Christopher Lee, the director of “God Versus Alien,” said in a statement that certain faiths view first contact with aliens as a sign of the Antichrist.
“Some evangelical Christians believe that first contact with aliens would herald the end of the world, the apocalypse, because this contradicts their beliefs,” he said in the documentary.
“The faith is based on the idea that the Bible is the only source of truth and anything that contradicts it is the sign of the end times.”
Lee also said that the revelation that “We are not alone” could have a colossal impact on society, although perhaps not as dramatic as “War of the Worlds.”
“This could lead to a shift in religious beliefs as people begin to question the validity of their current beliefs and consider the possibility that the universe was created by an alien race and we are simply stuck in a simulation.” said Lee in the film.
One of these “people” is David Grusch, a former senior intelligence official who claims to have first-hand encounters or knowledge of secret government programs involving “non-human” technologies.
“Some people have suspected that such things are already in the Vatican’s secret archives.”
One of these “people” is David Grusch, a former senior intelligence official who claims to have first-hand encounters or knowledge of secret government programs involving “non-human” technologies.
In June, Grusch claimed that the United States had been running a top-secret UFO recovery program for decades and claimed that the Vatican was involved in the first UFO crash.
The highly decorated officials also said that the first recovery of a UFO occurred in Magenta, Italy, in 1933 and that it was held by Mussolini’s Italian government until 1944-45, when Pope Pius XII. informed America about it.
“In 1933, the first boom occurred in Europe, in Magenta, Italy,” Grusch told News Nation.
“They recovered a partially intact vehicle and the Italian government moved it to a secure air base in Italy until about 1944-1945.”
‘The [Vatican] Pope channeled that back and told the Americans what the Italians had, and in the end we caught it.”
Grusch was then asked to clarify whether the Catholic Church was aware of “non-human” existence on Earth, and he replied, “Certainly.”
Pope emphasized to DailyMai.com that people may have problems with their religions when they come into contact with aliens, and that the same problems arise when it comes to AI and sentience.
“If it says it is, and its behavior is indistinguishable from sentience, it will be essentially undetectable,” he told .
“A perfect imitation of sentience is indistinguishable from actual sentience, just as a perfect imitation of a god is indistinguishable from being an actual god—if there is such a thing.”