Comments by "Neolithic Transit Revolution" (@neolithictransitrevolution427) on "What are these enormous piles of Mammoth bones?" video.

I'm certainly no creationist, but I do find it funny how, in an era where I play dozens of games/live increasingly in rendered worlds where bones might be placed purely for aesthetics, people laugh more and more at the idea that our own world might be a detailed creation.
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@aspiringscientificjournali1505 for some reason replies to you keep disappearing, so I replied without ating you
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@PeachysMom I'm not, but the creationist are, and I just think it's funny how we ridicule the idea
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@aspiringscientificjournali1505 we can't really prove all our measurements telling us the age of the world etc aren't based off defined values any more than prove or disprove the "substance" of our reality. I'm certainly not claiming this is all an actual game God is playing like Sims or that other people are NPCs or I'm/you're a brain in a jar. I just think it's funny how attached we are to theories put forward before we even had computers when we live in an era people are afraid of the threats of AI. Like creationist aren't claiming God grabbed a shovel and dug holes and perfectly mixed the ratio of uranium or carbon in each bone to give a right date and then reburied each one with the right stratification. I have no way of knowing whether or not this is a simulation turned on one day with an environment generated to create the illusion of billions of years. When I play Skyrim I don't assume bones I walk by really represent characters who fought whatever before I got there. To me the mockery is uncritical and largely undeserved, even if the basis of the belief (among creationists) lacks reason.
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@aspiringscientificjournali1505 I'm not suggesting the world is literally a game like God is playing Simms or that other people are NPCs or you're/I'm a brain in a jar. My point is only that people jump to mock the idea, as you did, without any critical thought. We're very attached to ideas put forward by people who ran around on sailing ships in an area where AI is an increasing threat. At the end of the day you can't "prove" that any of our measurements are of substance any more than one can prove the world was just turned on one day. Planck's constant seems oddly like bit computation, the universe is apparently 4 dimensional when the math says there should be a lot more, we are literally at the center of the known universe, the Fermi paradox might just mean everything out there is procedurally generated. We still don't have a theory binding gravity to the other 3 forces. We are and probably always will be stuck measuring from an internal frame work of 4 dimensions. The starting point will always be an unprovable assumption of how "real" the universe is, one way or another. Again, I'm not a creationist. But I have no reason to think their wrong, I'm just assuming they. Also I already answered but it isn't appearing so sorry if I did this twice.
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@PeachysMom why is it ridiculous though? There's a large number of physicists who think this could all be a simulation. I don't see how replacing the word God with Programmer makes a significant difference from our perspective.
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 @callmeneutrino7136 ditto😊
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I understand (African) elephants stand over their dead for long periods, and will pull brush over them. Mammoths may have done the same. Knowing that, ancient cultures may have tried to replicate what they saw as a "death ritual" out of respect.
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