Scientists have put forward the idea that humans are living in a computer game controlled by aliens, and a UFO expert has suggested it would explain the multitude of religions.
Nick Pope, who led the British government’s UFO project in the 1990s, told DailyMail.com that simulation theory could be the reason why beliefs vary.
He explained that the contrasting ideologies could be that the intelligence behind what we call our reality asks designers different questions, and that mistakes have been made in the programming.
“In cosmology, there often seems to be a gap between theory and observation,” Pope said.
“In religious terms, it would be as if different gods all had a hand in creating the universe, and all had their different styles.”
Scientists have put forward the idea that humans live in a computer game controlled by aliens, and a UFO expert has suggested that this could explain the multitude of religions.
Pope is one of several UFO experts featured in the new documentary ‘Gods Versus Aliens’ explores whether life as we know and perceive it is merely a simulation designed and controlled by aliens for an unknown purpose.
The film highlights the religious belief that a higher power created our universe, but suggests that the higher power could be an alien race.
“Every aspect of human society would be deeply and profoundly affected by open contact with extraterrestrials, and nowhere would this impact be greater than when it comes to religion,” Pope told DailyMail.com.
‘There are so many variables that the outcome is difficult, if not impossible, to predict.
‘What if advanced civilizations regard religion as primitive superstition, and we discover that we live in a predominantly atheistic universe?
“What if there is a dominant religion in the universe that we would consider crazy, but aliens arrive 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 could explain fundamental discrepancies within individual religions, such as the divide between the Old and New Testaments.
Nick Pope, who led the British government’s UFO project in the 1990s, told DailyMail.com that the simulation theory would solve why every religion believes their god created the universe.
“Christians say the Bible is the word of God, but the Old Testament contains plagues and lightning bolts and an angry, vengeful god who would think nothing 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 can 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 TV makers occasionally slip some sort of inside joke into a production.
“Maybe they insert something hilariously nonsensical into the middle of a gloomy sacred text.”
He provided DailyMail.com with an excerpt from the Bible: “From there Elisha went to Bethel.
“As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and chased him out. “Go upstairs, you baldhead!” they said. “Go upstairs, you baldhead!” He turned and looked at them and cursed them in the name of the LORD.
“Then two bears came out of the forest and tore forty-two youths to pieces.”
‘Something as absurd as that could never be in the Bible. But if you look at the Old Testament: 2 Kings 2:23-24, there it is,” Pope said.
Mark Christopher Lee, the director of “God Versus Alien,” said in a statement that certain religions 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 goes against their beliefs,” he said in the documentary.
‘The faith is based on the idea that the Bible is the only source of truth and that everything that goes against it is the sign of the end times.’
Lee also said that the revelation that ‘we are not alone’ could have a huge 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 that we are simply stuck in a simulation,” Lee said in the film. .
One of those “people” is David Grusch, a former high-ranking intelligence official, who claims to have first-hand experience or knowledge of secret government programs involving “non-human” technology.
“Some people have suggested that this kind of thing is already in the Vatican’s secret archives.”
One of those “people” is David Grusch, a former high-ranking intelligence official, who claims to have first-hand experience or knowledge of secret government programs involving “non-human” technology.
In June, Grusch claimed that the US has been running a top-secret UFO retrieval program for decades and alleged that the Vatican was involved in the first-ever UFO crash.
The decorated officials also said that the first discovery of a UFO occurred in 1933 in Magenta, Italy, and that it was in the hands of Mussolini’s Italian government until 1944 to 1945, when Pope Pius XII tipped America off.
“1933 was the first recovery in Europe, in Magenta, Italy,” Grusch said News Nation.
“They recovered a partially intact vehicle and the Italian government moved it to a secure air base in Italy until about 1944 to 1945.”
“The Pope (of the Vatican) channeled that and told the Americans what the Italians had, and we ended up getting it.”
Grusch was then asked to clarify whether the Catholic Church was aware of “non-human” existence on Earth, and he replied, “Certainly.”
Speaking to DailyMai.com, Pope highlighted the problem people may have with their religion once contact is made with aliens, similar to the same issues that arise with AI and consciousness.
“If it says it is, and its behavior is indistinguishable from feeling, it will be essentially unknowable,” he told DailyMail.com.
“Perfect imitation of feeling is indistinguishable from actual feeling, in the same way that perfect imitation of being a god is indistinguishable from being an actual god – if such a thing exists.”