THE FIRST MAN

A new study suggests that Homo erectus, a precursor to modern humans, was using advanced toolmaking methods in East Africa 1.8 million years ago, at least 300,000 years earlier than previously thought.

According to the Torah, the human being first appeared on the Earth 6000 years ago – why such a discrepancy in time? Scientific time is based on the assumption that cause and effect can explain the entirety of creation. The Torah sees a plan within the design of creation.

The Torah acknowledges the existence of the building blocks of creation in the beginning description of, The darkness covering the deep, the wind hovering upon the water and light being exuded. In the span of six, 24 hour days, the scene was for the star of creation.

The hundreds of millions of years required to prepare the world for human occupation happened prior to the Six Days of Creation. Each of the six days is an attribute colored with an emotion, each day a prototype for a thousand years of history – 5771 have elapsed.

The Cabala explains, The fire aspect of the human being was taken into a spiritual world later to emerge as modern man, while the androgynous being made from clay roamed the Earth. The first day was the attribute of Chesed/Kindness, causing carbon-14 to speed up.