maintain:
Bodies do not transform into one another. Rather, the atoms that were, for example, in the first body remain exactly the same in the second; only their accidents have changed.
This contradicts the consensus of scholars—the imams of the religion and other rational people—that bodies do transform into one another. Thus, humans and other animals become earth upon death; blood, carrion, swine, and other impure bodies become salt or ash; excrement becomes earth; juice becomes wine and wine then becomes vinegar; and what a person eats and drinks becomes urine, blood, feces, and the like.
Muslim scholars have discussed whether an impurity becomes pure through transformation, but none of them has denied that transformation occurs.
The proponents of the indivisible atom have derived from it doctrines whose falsity rational people know by elementary reason—doctrines whose detailed exposition is beyond the scope of this discussion. These include the rotation of the millstone, the wheel, the celestial sphere, and all other moving circular bodies (1); the assertion of some of them that the volitional agent acts whenever the millstone moves; and likewise the assertion of many of them: