That is one way of expressing it. Though I think atomism is a faulty concept. They are the nodes and the network gets short shrift. Like our society is all about individualism, but in fact it's just a tool to keep us socially isolated and therefore more dependent on the institutional structures, than an organic society. Nodes and networks.

So more of a yin/yang, versus God Almighty argument.

For one thing, I've been arguing against the Big Bang theory. Which does propose the cosmos as a singular entity, rather than an infinite web of galaxies;

https://medium.com/predict/the-webb-is-cast-72f2b8ab067d

On a more conceptual level, I suspect the two basic dynamics are synchronization, which is centripetal, as well as harmonization, which is distributive. So, nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields, galaxies and space. Between black holes and black body radiation.

The space curving into galaxies is balanced by the space between them curving out. Due to one being a measure of gravity and the other of radiation.

It also goes to my point about time being an effect of action, thus similar to temperature, rather than some underlaying dimension. It's just that as these mobile organisms, this sentient interface between our body and its environment functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so we experience time as the point of the present moving past to future, while the reality is change turning future to past.

The narrative emerges from the thermodynamic feedback loops. Expansion/consolidation.

So the energy goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.

Like consciousness goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past.