Stumped.....

Yesterday night as we playfully hit the bed, Sehar, my 4 year old asked me THE Question - Mumma, did God create us? A question sages have pondered for ages, philosophers have written books about and scientists have spent lifetime answering. Stumped.... I really didn't know how to answer that one. My simpler self prevailed and I told her - Yes, God created us.
Being a biochemist by education, my scientific self felt guilty and I felt I need to provide a legitimate answer to this curious mind. Now isn't that what the kids book tell us?
Charles Darwin and Robert Hooke prevailed on my brain and I started talking about evolution and cells.. I told her about how life began with a single cell which evolved to make animals, plants and monkeys/apes and eventually, human beings.. Monkeys, that's funny, she laughed... Mr. Huxley, take a walk.......
I don't know what brain cell triggered the next question - Mumma, but how do they remember.. Finally, years of genetic experiments didn't go waste as I proudly spoke about Mr. Crick's DNA.. I was so proud of myself, I am educating my child in a legitimate way. DNA? Mumma, Whats that? Deoxy ribose nucleic acid... Hun.. thats a funny name.. Ha ha ha. So does it remember like I remember English and maths. I obviously didn't want to delve further into the DNA's manufacturing and supply chain and wanted to end it there.
God was a simpler answer, this is getting complex, I thought to myself.. I need to wriggle out of this one.. Sleep was taking over and my memory and age were failing me...... God, need help...Forget it Sehar, God created all of us.
Sehar thought and pondered - Mumma, so did he put the bones together, put in blood and painted the face? Well.... yes, that's what he did..
Sometimes, simplicity is so much simpler :) And we both slept...