Water is the element and this is the origin....

Name	of Miletus Thales
Life	624 - 546 BC
Country	Greece
Category	Realism
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You much like to think of yourself as being created in the image of God. How distasteful, then, to be told that you are little but a drop of water in an infinite ocean. Moses flattered us. A cool Greek, Thales from Miletus, one of "the seven wise men" of that age, had a more realistic outlook. He said that man, as everything else, was created of water. If you look upon amino acids and proteins as somewhat complicated forms of water or, at least, fluids, Thales comes very close to a modern, scientific understanding of life in all its many wonderful forms, including mankind. Many a man, however - especially the adrenalinomaniacs and those bent on fundamentalist hero-worship - instinctively dislike, even hate, this Thalesian idea. It doesn't make them grand enough. It doesn't make them the rulers of the world. They take it as an insult if you try to explain to them that: "you are little but a drop of water, predetermined to flow towards the abyss of the waterfall of death". And yet.... Thales studied the stars under the priests of Memphis. Had he lived today, he would have known that in our expanding universe there

is, as a minimum, some 2,000 billion stars for every single one of us six billion fellowmen and-women on earth. And yet, we do not know if life exists on any of the other stars. Perhaps intelligent man is unique in this immense space. That life, in the form of a simple bacteria, at all started to creep around in a drop of water is a fabulous wonder. It is about as likely as if you won the highest sweepstakes in the biggest monthly lottery every month for your whole life. Life, even if "only" in a drop of water, is a miracle! Thales was satisfied with such self-understanding. In our quest "to know ourselves", we should be more than satisfied getting to understand that we are built by little but fluids, such as water, amino acids, DNA-segments, genes, proteins, hormones, testosterone and adrenaline. To imagine ourselves God-like is an expression of human vanity. It is a dangerous form of hubris as, for instance, Euripides warned us. However, scientific man, if he is truly scientific, keeps his sense of humble reverence in front of creation. He knows that behind all his knowledge and behind all his answers there always lurks one more "Why?" to which he can only say: "I don't know, yet!" In what, for instance, does our universe expand? And who created water?