This may be related to an article I read about 2 weeks ago, where some physicists had observed peculiar regularity to what (in theory) should be highly randomized phenomena. In their case it had something to do with the propagation of cosmic rays and radio emissions from elsewhere in the galaxy. At any rate they wondered aloud if the entire universe might not be in essence a computer simulation. If you ever played games like SimCity or Civilization, it's easy to wonder what it would be like to live in the "universe" that you are creating and controlling.
What I find most telling, though, is that they have to come at the question from a perspective of "could it be a computer simulation", when really that's nothing more than an elaborate, materialist way of saying God's Creation.