Whitehead's doctrine of temporal atomicity allows the two forms of causation to be complementary by assigning them to different phases of an actual occasion. (religion-online.org)
A preference for atomicity (explanation in terms of amino and nucleic acids) prescribes the method for molecular biology; and a persistent materialism hovers over the essentially anti- mechanistic physics of this century. (religion-online.org)
It is because the temporal atomicity allows for two kinds of process, the internal process of self - determination called «concresence,» as well as the efficient process of «transition» from occasion to occasion, that there can be freedom in the universe (PR 135). (religion-online.org)