Visit Catholic Freebies to get free stuff for Catholics. Take a swim at Tiber River . We must distinguish between atomism as a philosophy and atomism as a theory of science. Atomism as a philosophy originated with Leucippus. There is no purpose or design in nature, and in this sense all is ruled by chance.
All activity is reduced to local motion.
Countless worlds are formed simultaneously and successively. He substituted a power in the atoms to decline a little from the line of fall. Gassendi tried to harmonize atomism with Christian teaching by postulating atoms finite in number and created by God. With the application of atomism to the sciences, philosophic atomism also revived, and became for a time the most popular philosophy. Present-day philosophic atomic regards matter as homogeneous and explains all physical and chemical properties of bodies by a difference in mass of matter and local motion.