the simulation theory requires you to have faith that the statement that we are most likely living in a simulation due to statistical modeling around a statement of the progressive advancement of computer science. The attempt to make this analogy has been kicked around for more than a decade, and few of those looking at it give even passing thought to the fact that they are repeating past philosophical arguments of ontological reductionism, which have a history of at least 400 years or more, depending on which philosophists one cares to quote.