Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Where did the first ANYTHING come from?

Last week we took a driving trip to San Diego to visit friends, see the zoo and be tourists. On the way there my daughter asks us, "Where did the first people come from?" I looked at my husband and I had to admit, I had no answer. I told her that there are a lot of thoughts about that, but no one knows for sure. I suggested outer space. She looked out the window and thought a bit and then said where did the first ANYTHING come from?

I asked her what did she think? She said, outer space....but my answer I know was not sufficient. I thought about it later and discussed it with B. I have to admit that in school I evolution without question. Not that it made total sense, but it did seem logical and to my chagrin I accepted most things without question. Questions for me even now are something I have to remind myself to ask and think about. But OK so far I see no reason not to believe in evolution, but in my rudimentary understanding of it, I can trace our ancestry back back back, through the different hominid forms, back to Africa, back to apes, back to a small warm mammal, back to a reptile, back to a fish, back to a single cell organism.

So there we are single celled organism.

Still my question is, well how did we get that? It's no less of a mystery to me, where we came from, you can talk natural selection or you can say that humans were put here all fully developed in one shot, but either way it's still a mystery. Was it lightening that struck in the primordial soup? Was it the creator, which you can call God? Honestly not matter how I came at it, I could only say we just don't know. I'm still not sure how to answer her questions, I like the mystery, but I can see why people feel comforted by religion. You can just say, well God did it. and that to me is a short hand way of saying it's a mystery. God is un"knowable". Spirit is something that we can experience, but the creator, can we know the source of all things while in this form?

Some would say we can, me I know my connection to that source of all things. I feel to my core at home with where I come from energetically, but does that explain how and why? Especially to a six year old?

What I came to was this, what she thought about it was important, reading some creations myths might be fun, talking about god and spirituality, that also could be fun...and ultimately, it doesn't really matter....

cause here we are no matter what we think about the hows and whys of it.

1 comment:

FMN Design said...

Ahh the questions we don't have a clue about. I always love watching shows about dinosaurs and how factual they make it all. Their skin type and coloring, their behavior etc. Did any of them actually experience a dinosaur??? To know that it's brown or spotted??

But, we have questions and as humans we want answers. Investigating and inquiring is definitely fun or interesting or comforting. But all speculation. I am looking forward to hopefully finding out the answers some day. Maybe.

If you haven't seen it, "Expelled" is a great movie to check out. The conflict between evolution and intelligent design seems to be bubbling.