Can you argue the issue of Parnenides and Xeno theory on change and motion?

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Can you argue the issue of Parnenides and Xeno theory on change and motion?

They argued that change and motion are not possible. Do you feel this is correct? why or why not?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I do not agree. I side more with Heraclitus, things are in constant flux. By Xeno you might be referring to either Xenophanes, a forerunner of the eleatics or Xenocrates, successor of Plato. Both taught unified theory, Xenophanes in his panentheism held that one God, unmoving, changeless, all-perceiving, homogeneous and all ruling was the source of all, the unity of the universe, Xenocrates with his numbers theory taught that the source of all was in the One and the dyad, an idea in some ways comparable to digital theory, Motion is not illusory, and even the structure of matter changes over time and can be transformed to energy. The greatest disservice was done to Western theology in the introduction of Aristotle's unmoved mover as dogmatic truth. It removes God from the act of caring and interaction. We see evidences of the expansion of the universe on the grand scale, and in the infinitesimal realm of quantum mechanics we see charges and particles in motion.