Aristotle the most notable amongst them, and he simply describes him as the “founder of natural philosophy.”10 It is upon little more than the strength of this one remark by Aristotle that the case against Thales rests. But against that must be set the aphorisms that are attributed by others to Thales, such as: “Of existing things, God is the oldest--for he is ungenerated - The world is the most beautiful, for it is God's creation - Mind is the swiftest, for it runs through everything...,”11 and so on. All of which are classic creationist sentiments.
