Human Remains

Two 1.9 million-year-old skeletons found in a South African cave have added a new species of hominid dubbed Australopithecus sediba; the fossils provide rare insight into a period shrouded in paleontological mystery.

There are two ways according to the Torah to explain these discoveries. It is written in the Midrash-Book of Metaphor how a third of the populous from those who went to Mars to build the Tower of Babel returned in the form of apes. Perhaps the traveling through space had an effect on their bodies making them date millions of years in the past?

It is also known that there are two descriptions of the famous Merkava/Chariot which hovers over creation and is replicated in smaller versions down to the mysterious vehicles that convey life through the blood streams and make organs operate. One description of the Merkave has three animals holding a chair with the face of a human, but the other description has a human being included with the three animals holding up the chair with a human face.

It is possible that human animals existed but died out along with so many other species that evolved into the animal soul which animates the human body.

The stories in the Torah are meant to be taken literally as modified by the Law, the Metaphor and the Secret. The key to learning Torah is never stray from the simple meaning of the text.