Weekend Meditation – Questioning

What not to say over the ‘morning tea’ table at a Baptist-run play group:

Our play group is a combination of women of the Baptist congregation and local (mostly secular) women. For the most part the play group is non-religious, but there are small clues as to the pastoral background of the group. Signs on the toilet doors to ask that we make a special effort to take care of the house of God. Children’s bible stories mixed in with the picture books. Singing grace before we eat our morning tea.

We didn’t sing grace last week. Perhaps that is why I forgot where I was. Some of the mothers were discussing the recent difficulties they were having with their toddlers. Their children prefer to eat of other people’s plates. Not thinking I offered a theory I had read online; There is an evolutionary impetus for children eat off adult’s plates. It is an instinct left over from our evolution from cave people – the food the elders of the tribe ate was safe to eat.

The theory itself wasn’t the point. The point was that I take my belief in evolution for granted. So much so I offered it as an explanation to people who (from their reactions – no stereotyping) clearly weren’t as convinced as I by Darwin’s Theory.

My question to you is this:

What do you take for granted? What beliefs have you stopped questioning? Are the certainties in your life solid, or do they crumble like tissue paper when questioned?