I didn’t say people aren’t allowed to search for evidence, just that a hypothesis that a Creator exists, requires a base definition of what is meant by a Creator. Same as searching for Angels or Flat Earths.
You need to presuppose a certain kind of Creator to look for evidence that would satisfy you that that kind of Creator exists. (For the hypothesis, of course, I don’t care what you do on your personal time.)
What do you think people are doing when they propose tests based on the ideas that a “cosmic supernatural coder” would cut corners on design, or that they’d have a certain amount of “computing power”, or assumptions about what other motivations might have on the “Intelligent Design” of the simulation?
