One could take various simulation hypotheses as examples of modernized young universe creationism.
I don’t think you can really “refute” that kind of hypotheses. They just stay right where they start, at their priors, not predicting any distinct experiences until a future date.
At most there may be good reasons for the priors to be very low, albeit you won’t get very far with the complexity of gods in general—if our universe can plausibly culminate in creation of a super-intelligence, then the complexity of a god is at most not much higher than that of our universe; and for all we know it might well be lower.
One could take various simulation hypotheses as examples of modernized young universe creationism.
I don’t think you can really “refute” that kind of hypotheses. They just stay right where they start, at their priors, not predicting any distinct experiences until a future date.
At most there may be good reasons for the priors to be very low, albeit you won’t get very far with the complexity of gods in general—if our universe can plausibly culminate in creation of a super-intelligence, then the complexity of a god is at most not much higher than that of our universe; and for all we know it might well be lower.
Young Earth Simulationism (YES) could find supporters here… (And it can be contrasted with Natural Origins—NO.)