re: #406 danarchy

Depends on your concept of God. Some physicists think it is better than even money that we are living in a simulation. If that is the case then whoever created the simulation and set the parameters would be God.

I stress the some, and I have a hard time believing it, but it isn’t an idea I can dismiss out of hand.

I have a vague memory of a short story (Bradbury? Asimov? someone else? can’t recall) that a boy with an ant farm somehow got the ants to see him as a god; they built his face in the sand, brought offerings, sacrificed some of their members…