Joseph on Nostr: Democritus (460-370 BCE) purportedly believed “everything existing in the universe ...

Democritus (460-370 BCE) purportedly believed “everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.” Jacques Monod (1910-1976), Nobel Laureate, elaborated in the final chapter of his 1970 book titled Chance and Necessity that humankind needs to replace ethics based on religious beliefs with ethics based on knowledge. I agree with him.