Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Were they robots?

I was putting my 6 year old child, (we'll refer to her as "E"), down to bed the other night. We were talking about some trivial things and playing our nightly game of thinking of words that start with a certain letter (tonight we were on "E"), when right before I was about to leave she asked, "Who was the first person born? I know you were born before me, but who was the first person *ever* born?"

This was pretty heady stuff for a few minutes past bed time. I didn't think it was the appropriate time to talk about evolution, so I decided to say "No one really knows." I thought that was a bit uninspiring so I topped it off by mentioning Adam and Eve. I told her about a story in the bible that says the first people were Adam and Eve.

For some reason I certainly cannot explain (which happens often with E), she immediately asked, "were they robots?"