intelligent less likely to believe in god, page-186

Change and decay is truth. Objects are merely illusory.

Heraclitus taught: "All flows, all changes".

ÐÜíôá ῥåῖ (panta rhei) "everything is in a state of flux".

Thus Heraclitus was called "the obscure".

He typically uses the ordinary word "to become" (gignesthai or ginesthai, root sense of being born), which led to his being characterized as the philosopher of becoming rather than of being. He recognizes the changing of objects with the flow of time; in fact, this is the view of modern science, which recognizes nothing static and sees a balance between processes everywhere, though not those of Heraclitus.

Plato argues against Heraclitus as follows:

How can that be a real thing which is never in the same state? ... for at the moment that the observer approaches, then they become other ... so that you cannot get any further in knowing their nature or state .... but if that which knows and that which is known exist ever ... then I do not think they can resemble a process or flux ....

OF COURSE HERACLITUS WAS CORRECT, GIVEN ca. 535–475 BC, OBVIOUSLY DERIVED HIS VIEWS DIRECTLY FROM THE LORD BUDDHA