re: 5 year old daughter asks world's toughest question.

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Well, neither did, Adam

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Adam did know, he talked directly to him and the magical walking talking snake.

This snake then told adam's gf to eat a stupid apple that god put in the general vicinity to begin with..

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"The child is a natural question-box. It is not the number of questions he asks, but their character, that distinguishes him from the adult. The grown-ups do not lose the curiosity which seems to be a native human trait; but it certainly deteriorates in quality. Judging from the question-and-answer games that adults play with their radios, they are interested in simple matters of fact. They want to know whether something is so, not why. But children's questions are not limited to the sort that can be answered by an encyclopedia. An inquiring infant could stump the whole board of experts on "Information, Please"--or any other quiz program His quiz program would have to be called "Understanding, Please."

"We so often tell the child there is no answer, when one is available, or command him not to ask so many questions. We thinly conceal our irritation when baffled by the apparently unanswerable query. All this discourages the child. He may even get the impression that it is impolite to be too inquisitive. Human inquisitiveness is never killed; but it is soon debased to the sort of questions asked by college students, who, like the adults they are to become, ask only for information, please"

"When children persist in asking good "whys," they push us beyond our depth. But a question we cannot answer may not be unanswerable, or silly. If we cannot answer a good question, we should at least convey to the child our respect for the question, so that he is encouraged to go on asking questions of that sort. We should make every effort to educate ourselves up to such questions. Children's questions can be taken as an occasion for our own enlightenment. We might even propose to look into the matter together with them, and we ought not to postpone doing so in the hope that they will forget about it. When we confess our limitations, we should be sure that our "humility" is not merely covering up our indolence"

Mortimore Adler




I would just say there was always a God, there was always something. Something can't form from nothing, so there always had to be something. That's why I replace windshields and I'm not a philosopher or scientist though.

Wouldnt the natural question box quote tell you NOT to give the child some answer, but instead insist on her finding it ...

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I would just say there was always a God

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This seems to be counterproductive.

Show her this video.

Youtube viedo link about God questions

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Say that you don’t know?

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That's what I did. I told her that was a great question and that I don't have a good answer.

How can you really?