My daughter wants to know....

[Pat Mustard]

So the kiddo has a question and has been quite argumentative with me about it. Actually, she has several questions.

1. If god doesn't exist, where did life come from? Her answer is evolution isn't the answer because we had to come from somewhere.

She says logic and reason doesn't make sense. The big bang doesn't make sense and can't explain it because an explosion can't create things when explosions destroy things. That can't explain why there's life.


Her words. Have at it because I tried to tell her that you don't just throw in the excuse that "god did it", when there's no definitive answer to these things.

A lot of stuff doesn't make sense to us because it doesn't operate on scales we are able to comprehend. Humanity has a very limited ability to sense reality around us operating in a very small portion of the sensory field. Couple that with our insistence that there must be some sort of underlying narrative (I really like the idea of reclassifying humanity as Pan Narrans, the storytelling ape) to explain everything, and lots of reality comes out weird.

To respond to your daughter, ask her to explain god if life is too much to have a natural beginning, then god must also have a creator, being far more complex.