It’s funny to have conversations along those lines with athiests. Suggested to one I know that we and the universe are just some advanced alien species teenager’s highschool science project. The athiest enthusiastically bought into the concept as a possibility.
Then I pointed put that, from our perspective, that alien teenager would be industinguishable from God.
Athiest got real quiet.
I like your analogy.
Why couldn’t God and/or Jesus be an alien species? The idea of Heaven or Hell be a parallel universe?
I think Science, and Religion go hand in hand whether the atheist scientist believe it or not.
Just as an example, look at the astronomical odds against Earth not only supporting life, much less a thinking reasoning species. No way it happened by accident.
Some people will call this heresy (on both sides), but as a college trained scientist, everyday I see more examples of God putting a force in play that allows things to progress naturally. No one can deny we are not the same beings we were 2000 years ago. Plants adapt to surrounding. Animals adapt to surrounding. But the jump from Chimp to Man? Maybe if you dropped a bunch of chimps in NY City, they might be able to find food in 6 mos. Change into humans, can’t happen.