@Metaphysician Undercover
You can’t possibly be willing to understand the principle.
I’ve told you plenty about what is and isn’t a qualitatively greater thing.
How can you not understand that a myriad of dead material things collected together in any combination cannot create a qualitatively greater thing but only a quantitatively greater thing?
Putting ice cubes in a drink to make the drink cold does not make ice qualitatively greater than water, but just water with less energy and molecules stuck together.
All physical matter changed into different physical matter follows this same lack of qualitative change.
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.
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.
It really isn’t a principle for people who use the Google machine.
So, do the work to understand it, or just leave me alone with the thought that I don’t understand it, as you accused me of before.