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My daughter and I were talking about germs at the dinner table. She learned that there were both good and bad germs in the body from a field trip to the hospital. Abby told me all the places she could think of that you could find germs. She obviously thought this was very cool. I told her that even the germs that make you sick are okay if their populations stay low. This sort of thing makes sense to her - little gardener that she is! She wondered what a world without microorganisms would be like. I told her I found that very hard to imagine, since microorganisms are everywhere. I mentioned that single-celled creatures were very basic, and that they were the first living things on earth.
"Even older than the dinosaurs?" "Oh yes, much older than that." "OH! So the germs made God! I've been wondering about that."
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Reminds me of the Warmaker tree in Xenocide . While God didn't reveal germ theory to the Bible prophets, one has to wonder why he told them to avoid pork and bury their feces.
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I would love for one of my children to say something like that, be an awesome teaching opportunity!
I think Jenny's daughter is probably brilliant, most jatraquero children are. Whether she's as brilliant as mine though...that's debatable.
I just smile though when I think of Jenny sitting and talking to her daughter - what a wonderful mother she is. I mean, in today's society most parents don't take the time to just sit and share their knowledge with their kids that often.
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