RE: My daughter wants to know....
January 18, 2017 at 6:49 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2017 at 6:50 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Depending on how old your daughter is, try explaining that (even though the BB wasn't an explosion), explosions do create things - they release a lot of energy which can cause chemical reactions. They can create a million little rocks where they was only one big rock before. They create heat and light and big honking holes in the ground. Explosions can be very creative.
If she doesn't think that logic and reason make sense, why is she trying to argue logically and reasonably?
Nobody knows how life got started. But life is essentially just clumps of chemicals that got together in a certain way. One clump got together to be a frog, another got together to be a hamster, and another got together to be her. Without getting too technical, perhaps you could explain to her that the BB made so much heat that the little chemicals (hydrogen and helium) got turned into bigger chemicals (carbon, sulfur, phosphorous) and it is the bigger chemicals that clumped together to make her.
Alternatively, you could tell her to stop asking difficult questions and get on with her homework.
Boru
If she doesn't think that logic and reason make sense, why is she trying to argue logically and reasonably?
Nobody knows how life got started. But life is essentially just clumps of chemicals that got together in a certain way. One clump got together to be a frog, another got together to be a hamster, and another got together to be her. Without getting too technical, perhaps you could explain to her that the BB made so much heat that the little chemicals (hydrogen and helium) got turned into bigger chemicals (carbon, sulfur, phosphorous) and it is the bigger chemicals that clumped together to make her.
Alternatively, you could tell her to stop asking difficult questions and get on with her homework.
Boru
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