I am a practicing Orthodox Christian, so, yeah, I do buy the Simulation hypothesis very seriously.

Then your assumption that Omicron just had to be made in a lab makes sense, considering you don't believe in evolution in the first place.

There's no conflict between evolution and Orthodoxy. I have medical researchers, physicists, psychologists, and other prominent scientist attending our church. Our planets was seeded with life and then God help a little bit so that it's not populated only by beasts.