johno@tekchips.UUCP (John Ollis) (12/10/84)
I feel that it is time to announce a new theory (as far as I know) of the origins of life and our world. Since this theory combines portions of both creationism and evolutionism so well, I fell that it should definitely be required study for all school children, and probably all adults. The basic premis of the theory is that there is a Creator who is a Member of a Race that developed through evolution. For reasons of His own (well really His or Her own...or maybe Her or His own...Its own?), He decided that He needed to create a world. Of course, working with real matter is so messy, that He sat down at his favorite Super Computer, fed in a very sophisticated Super Simulator, and hit the return key mumbling something about letting there be light. And our universe came into being. This theory addresses both older theories. First of all, to the creationists, it acknowledges the existence of a Creator. It also accounts for the period of absence of natural law since, before the starting of a simulation, the simulated universe really has no laws at all, and is created out of a real Void, a void very familiar to those of us who have faced the writing a simulator. To the evolutionists, the theory admits that evolution did occur on the Creators World. After all, in creating the Simulation, He would not want to make it too obvious to the createes that it was, after all, just a simulation. So, He would have to allow some plausible explanation for the origin of everything, and what better and easier to handle than what had happened on His own World. Therefore, He would spread the necessary evidence around to support this one possible explanation. Therefore, since this theory combines evolution and creation together through a simulation, I have named it "Evulation." There are some very interesting aspects to Evulation. We have no way of knowing, relative to our time, when the Simulation started. It may have started thousands of years or ten minutes ago. At whatever point it started, appropriate Initial Conditions would have been set up, including the memories of all people involved. Also, we have no way of knowing the relation between our time and the Creator's. In fact, if He has us running as a background job, there may be no definite relation at all, with the Super Computer running us whenever there isn't anything useful to do. We also have no way to tell the extent of the Simulation or to what detail particular things are simulated. For instance, I know that I have been simulated in detail, but everyone else in the world might be just facades. The part of the world that is out of my sight might even be on a "back burner" not really being simulated in much detail at all unless I happen to go there. On the other extreme, the entire universe might be simulated in great detail. It all depends on how super the Super Computer really is. Evulation also explains one really odd-ball fact about our world--quantum physics. It is obvious now that all the quantum effects are merely necessary quantization for the Simulation. This leads to the prediction that time and space are both inherently quantized. This all leads to the Purpose for the Creation of the Simulation in the first place. Consider for a moment what common bond holds all the human race together, what driving force permeates all our lives. Everyone on this whole world is involved with buying and selling. Even the most backward aborigines have either been exposed to such things or are unexploited customers. Therefore, I conclude that the purpose of the Simulation is as a Marketing Study. The preceding is not the honest opinion of anyone that I know of, including myself. John Ollis tektronix!tekchips!johno