(September 1, 2014 at 10:36 am)ManMachine Wrote: The atoms in Dawkins' gold may no longer be called 'gold' but they are still the atoms that he started with, just fewer of them. The fact that the names may change is purely semantic and arbitrary. All he succeeds in doing in this argument is demonstrating how arbitrary science can be.
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MM
Nope, once you divide it below the atomic level the parts cease to have the properties inherent to gold. You can't call it copper, oxygen, or gold sub-atomic particles at that point because there is no difference between an electron that used to be in a shell of gold or an electron that is used in a shell of helium.
Attack the problem in reverse, start at a state of "non-gold" and see if you can get to gold.
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