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“all part of a colossally complex computer simulation contained within a bigger Universe, run by an extraordinarily advanced alien civilization. This is a very silly attempt to dodge the issue, and not a very effective one, either.”

You are completely correct. Reminds me of the McGuffin in the movie Men In Black. It’s a marble hanging off the collar of a cat. It contains entire galaxies within it. At the end of the film, there’s a shot zooming away from earth, past the Oort cloud and the entire milky way, zooming all the way out of the marble our galaxy is in. Then an alien hand is playing marbles with the galaxy we inhabit, that shell within a shell within a shell concept.
https://youtu.be/SmjYfnnR94I

In the movie it works, it’s funny. Good comedy can leverage the absurd.

It’s not funny as the intellectual refugee of men fleeing from the Creator.

Thank you for re-sharing the documentary, I enjoyed reading your thoughts on it.