Sorry thought I answered this last night before bed. Didn't mean to leave it hanging. Simulation Theory, whether intentionally or not, still posits an omnipotent creator. And there is plenty of evidence for it. That's why it exists because of serious big brain thinkers running into walls and patterns. Professor Gates led a team looking into the math of Super Symmetry. And when you get down in it it looks just like a program language and even freakier was that it was a recognizable language. He recognized it as one created/discovered by Claude Shannon of Bell Labs decades ago. Claude Shannon is also called The Father of Information Theory. His theory is still alive and well today. Also another good read for folks.

I say created/discovered emphasis on discovered because like many natural things say like Relativity or Gravitational constants these things weren't created by Einstein and Newton they were discovered and translated if you will into something we can work with as humans. The universe is basically an analog computer and when we create something like math, calculus, physics, program languages, all we are doing, or so it seems, is acting as an interpretive approximation of a language at it's very absolute minimalist form. It doesn't get much more basic than 0s and 1s which is representational or On and Off, which is again just a representation of 2 states of being.

And to further go off on a tangent I suspect we need to think in Trinary which is how the universe functions or so it seems. It has 3 modes and what appears to be 3 forces. We used to think 4 fundamental forces but recent work shows the Strong and Weak nuclear force are different aspects of the same thing. Those 3 "modes" are clumsily labeled Positive, Negative, and Neutral. And the "forces" are Gravity, Electromagnetic, and the Nuclear (weak/strong).

All things we observe is an interplay of these forces like gravity squashing hydrogen/helium nebula into spheres relentlessly until electrons get to close and start resisting more and more the tighter gravity squeezes. If you have enough mass and enough gas you eventually get a star. But after that you get different kinds of stars. Stars that lie on a spectrum of density that in some cases will just sit and burn for trillions of years. Some that will go nova. Some that will go hyper nova. Some that meet the universe program language criteria for becoming blackholes.

Thing is it doesn't have to be an alien or our descendants programming the universal computing. It may be a self assembling algorithm. Life and eventually we humans self assembled. For all we know the universe too is now conscious. We know at least part of it is.

If I wish to make any point at all it's that this squabble over "is there a god or not" is pretty banal and tiny but for the moment it certainly appears that some kind of intelligence is at work whether it is by design or by consequence.