On the other hand, the simulation analogy also brings out a weakness in any argument from design. The designer itself must presumably be an impressive creature—one that indicates design. Surely that design itself requires explanation. Another designer just pushes the problem back: What explains the design of that designer, or of the whole system of designers? Someone might say that God is exempt from explanation, but this looks like special pleading. So both the designer hypothesis and the multiverse hypothesis leave something unexplained.
