"There's every reason to believe that the universe is stranger than we really realize," he says. "If we're living in a simulation on some alien supercomputer, the world could be profoundly counterintuitive." The claims of Elrond Hubbard, which marked the foundation of Scientology, are well-documented and have no basis in fact or history,. He adds: "I'm not even closing the door to any possibility of what we might call a miracle ... I mean, the universe is whatever it is"