“We human beings are the
most extraordinary creatures we know about, and part of our glory is that we
can imagine we are not the most remarkable creatures in the entire
universe."
Owen Gingerich, Harvard Astronomer & Mennonite
As we were eating dinner tonight, my seven-year-old turned to me
and started to say, "Did you know that God..." Then he reassessed his
approach and got a very serious look on his face and started again.
"I have some things
to tell you."
Based on his false start I was prepared to hear that he had a
prophetic vision to share, and I was almost as anxious as the priest Eli
waiting to hear what God had said to the boy Samuel. My fears were unwarranted.
"When God created
the world he didn't just do it like bam all green with regular animals and
everything. First he had to create like a lava planet and then micro-organisms
and then eventually dinosaurs, and then everything else up to today."
