Talk:Atomism
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Logical atomism vs. memetics
Is logical atomism related to memetics? Martin
- Wow! Nice idea. I like that. My immediate reaction would be, Yes, logical atomism would be one example of memetics. But then maybe a logician like Bertrand Russell would say, "Wait a minute, young men, logic supersedes the culture that memetics traces." Interesting insight. I will look around for some scholar, perhaps a modern logician, who sees some connection between memetics and logical atomism. I have to run to a party first, though.! :))). Rednblu 01:28, 27 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Creation vs. Evolution
Is there any reason why Creationism vs. Evolution is in this article? It seems to me to have little relevance to the rest of it.
--LaurenKaplow 22:26, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- According to the cultural anthropologists and the social anthropologists, one of the earliest secular explanations for how we got here was the 400 BC atomist Democritus who hypothesized the derivation of life from just atoms and void with no divine intervention. In addition, the creationist scholars see the atomists as the ones who started the Evolution vs. creation debate. Evidently, before Democritus, it was all creationism with divine intervention. And then after Democritus, it was Evolution vs. creationism. If you are interested in looking at the ancient creationist attacks against the secular explanations of atomism, the surviving creationist attacks are all collected in The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus, C. C. W. Taylor (Translator) (University of Toronto Press 1999) ISBN 0802043909. Apparently from their writings, the ancient creationists blamed the evolution vs. creationism debate on Democritus and his teacher Leucippus and on no one else. :)) ---Rednblu | Talk 01:05, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)