[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

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Quoting "Laycock, Jos (OSPT)" <Jos.Laycock at OFFSOL.GSI.GOV.UK>:

> Platt
> 
> I agree with those "some" people, but its not an "explanation".
> The "something" is the static pattern in quality, not quality itself ("nothing",
> in the mystic/probabalistic sense).

Quality consists of both static and Dynamic aspects.


> In any case, I wouldn't try to set "emergence from" as a function of time. 

"Emergence from" presupposes time as does "instantaneous." The real question
for me is: "How can time have been created in the Big Bang since it takes time
to create?" Suggests the existence of a force that transcends time and space
doesn't it?



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