At dinner tonight, Maggie asked “How did animals came?” A few clarifying questions revealed that she was interested in how animals arrived on the planet Earth… literally, where animals came from. We talked a bit about microbes and evolution, but she wasn’t especially interested. After some consideration, she produced her own version. Here’s what she had to say (scrawled down verbatim on a scrap of paper at the dinner table):

The ground came.
The animals came from the ground.
And humans came from the animals.
Humans built houses and then
they lived in houses.

New career possibility: developer of creation myths.