The other day we were driving home and Isaac began to speak out of the silence: "I have really sharp vision. I can see, like, twenty miles. Just like ornitholestes."
I said, "What's ornitholestes?"
He said, "It's a dinosaur– with really sharp vision. I think that maybe, MAYBE ornitholestes evolved into Australopithecus, and that EXACT Australopithecus evolved into ME! And I kept the sharp eyes of the ornitholestes!"
I thought it was pretty unlikely that a reptile would've evolved into a primate, and the arrogance problem is sort of a problem, but I liked the way he formed his theory and the way all these multi-syllabic words were tripping off his tongue. I said, "Hm… maybe so."