Creationism tries to match a story, i.e. 6,000 year old dinosaurs.
I don’t think it’s quite that cut and dried, though. “Young Earth Creationists” who think the universe is 6,000 years old are a tiny, tiny, tiny, subset of Christians. Most Christians in the world are Catholics (the first billion), and the Catholic Church is more than happy with a 14 billion year old universe. Heck, the guy who came up with the Big bang Theory was a Catholic priest. Among Protestants, only the Fundamentalists hold to that 6,000 year business, and I believe they account for about 1% of non-Catholic Christians. Then, of course, there are the many non-Christian religions, all around the world, that postulate creation stories of their own. When you throw them all together and do something like a meta-analysis, the trend is “someone not human made the universe and put people in it.’ That sure sounds like the Simulation Hypothesis to me…
The truth is hidden amongst other unlikelies.
I think this is why science will probably never figure it out. The truth is hidden in anomalies, and science automatically discounts those. If, say, every 15 billion years the interdimensional aliens who built the simulation have to reboot it, science would never even look for evidence of that. What kind of experiment could they run?
