All is Water

Some Greek chappy called Thales (c. 624-546 BCE)thought up the idea that all matterhas water (rather than water, earth, wind&fire)as its basic substance. This is kind ofsignificant because it turned thoughts of origins and explanations away from the supernatural. And it was all pretty much downhill from that point on.

Okay, all is not water. There’s some water in pretty much everything, but that doesn’t mean that it is all water. Thales was perhaps a really nice guy, but he probably ate chees...