"Adults" like Children.

Why does the story begin with a conversation between two children. What is the significance about their conversation? Melinda and Howard have a conversation while Howard is playing with worms that were brought in from the rain. He makes Melinda mad when he tells her that her and her family were once worms or blobs of jelly when the whole world was covered in water. The significance of this converstaion is to show how even adults try to make the different theories of how life cam to be on earth like a competition. They cant agree or be tolerant of other people's opinios. This conversation between two kids shows how adults act like children when it comes to agreeing. It shows how blindly some people can believe in religion, or in a scientific theorie, like children can believe in Santa Clause.