learning About Creationism..

I wanted to blog about a conversation my son and I had last night, that really hits home with unschooling. It came about late at night when my boy would usually be in bed, but he wanted to know who made the earth or how it was created.

Philosophical questions are among my favorite subjects, and so we sat down and had a little lesson in creationism. First, I asked him how he thought the earth was created. It was entirely to cute.

He decided that the earth was always there, but it started out as a tiny little blip. One day the earth got pregnant by the moon and after earth got really fat, she went to the earth hospital and spit out 12 babies. One was a baby girl named Mars and one was a baby boy named The Sun, and the rest were stars. He said that Mars, the Sun and the stars all wanted to float up to the sky, but Earth said they had bedtimes and had to sleep in special cribs in Earths house. She said that after they went to college, they could go up into the sky, and they did.

He also said that the Earth lived in Alaska, but we thought about it, and it would be hard for Earth to live on Earth. So he decided Earth lived in Space.

After we talked a while about his idea of how the earth was created, we talked about how he had just done some "creationism", which is when someone puts down a hypothesis about how the earth was formed. We talked about all sorts of different theories over time, though we didn't stick with any particular theory until we got to the big bang, which he found a bit interesting.

Now all day he's been asking various questions about how things are created or made. Which is already leading us into many other subjects I would have thought to be to complex for a 6 year old, lol.