deas/impressions. This is how Berkeley explained order, constancy, and harmony in the physical, material world. Berkeley contended that physical objects are not made up of atoms and photons. If this were true, the table in the room would exist if there were not a conscious mind to perceive it. However, according to Berkeley, this is not the case. Berkeleys claim that the external world exists only in our minds is commonsensical only in terms of science. Berkeley did not deny the truths of scientific theories. He did, however, postulate that they are merely tools and ways of explaining things. Atoms are hypothetical objects in that no one has ever seen an atom. It cannot be scientifically proven that physical objects are made up matter. This is why physical objects will not exist when I turn and walk away from them. Since it has been established, according to Berkeley, that physical objects are not material objects in the sense of the scientific definition of matter, they have been reduced to merely perceived ideas/impressions existing in our minds. In order for the theory to continue its rationality, Berkeley explained that if it is not matter, which allows us to perceive physical objects, than it must be God. Therefore, following Berkeley thought, when we talk about matter, we are talking about God. That which we attribute to matter must refer to God, the revealer of ideas corresponding to material things. It would then follow that it is God who is the True Essence of physical objects and not atoms, photons, or protons. However, this explanation may be just as commonsensical as his explanation against science in that neither God nor matter has been proven scientifically to exist. Both are theoretical ideas. Since neither God nor matter can be proven to exist, it would follow that Berkeleys theory of external objects is just as commonsensical as postulating that physical objects contain atoms, photons ect, (reality consists of matter)...
