Ah, I had you pegged completely backwards. Here I was thinking your main premise was that god doesn't exist, when it's actually that God does, and specifically and exactly the one described in the Bible.
consciousness is an irreducible property of reality
is just a restatement of "God made all things". There's not much to discuss beyond that premise because, as you said, it leads to its own inevitable conclusions. Here I was thinking you were objecting to the "high IQ brings you back out of secular humanism and into spirituality again" part of the oberservation at the top of this thread, when it was actually "low IQ believers believe in a book verbatim without any of the philosophical reasoning which would lead them to similar conclusions" aspect which offended you.
BMN003 0 points 3 hours ago
Ah, I had you pegged completely backwards. Here I was thinking your main premise was that god doesn't exist, when it's actually that God does, and specifically and exactly the one described in the Bible.
is just a restatement of "God made all things". There's not much to discuss beyond that premise because, as you said, it leads to its own inevitable conclusions. Here I was thinking you were objecting to the "high IQ brings you back out of secular humanism and into spirituality again" part of the oberservation at the top of this thread, when it was actually "low IQ believers believe in a book verbatim without any of the philosophical reasoning which would lead them to similar conclusions" aspect which offended you.