Yes, but it's confusing. — EugeneW
I’m only taking about one principle, and you keep talking about your definition of what is “greater”, and I am correcting your definition because I provided the principle not you.
I’m repeating myself because you’re repeatedly holding up quantity for me to look at as a greater thing when quantity is not part of the principle, other than calling the extra element of superior quality an added element. — Joe Mello
What you should be doing is looking to science to see if it supports the principle, not trying to make it your own. — Joe Mello
You and most of the posters here have a failure of imagination. — Joe Mello
There are a couple of posters here who readily appreciated the principle and welcomed it into their thinking like they were waiting for it. — Joe Mello
A qualitatively greater thing than physical matter would be living tissue, life, a living being.
A qualitatively greater thing than life would be a thought, an emotion, a human personality. — Joe Mello
The principle is logically stating that only something (qualitatively) greater than life and thought and emotion and us, and everything else that has evolved in our physical universe, had to be present for evolution to have taken place. — Joe Mello
A qualitatively greater thing than physical matter would be living tissue, life, a living being.
A qualitatively greater thing than life would be a thought, an emotion, a human personality.
— Joe Mello
This is a good example of why I do not understand you. First you say that a living being is greater than a dead thing. Then you say that a thought is greater than a living being. — Metaphysician Undercover
The principle is logically stating that only something (qualitatively) greater than life and thought and emotion and us, and everything else that has evolved in our physical universe, had to be present for evolution to have taken place.
And the “something (qualitatively) greater than” is God’s omnipotent power.
The elegance of the principle leaves out mentioning quality because any philosophically trained mind would readily understand what a greater thing is. — Joe Mello
God is not everything because God’s omnipotent power does not engulf the uniqueness in every created thing.
I experience more than one god. They can't logically be alone as the creation of love and hate takes two at least. Only when you have knowledge of another mind, you will understand that. Monotheism lacks love.
God is the greatest being we can imagine. — Joe Mello
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