Finally an interesting topic!!! I heard a great dvar torah from a rebbi of mine who has since passed away. Its a well known DT. I had asked him about stuff like this and fossil records and the like. And he said the following: The Torahs first letter is a Bet. It is a letter that is blocked off from all side save for the next letter and word and paragraph and so on. It need not concern us what hashem did, or might have done without us or before us. We need to follow the open direction of the letter Bet. Even if there are non humans in the world or there were dinosaurs before us. It doesn’t change the fact that we now, are charged with upholding the Torah and its commandments. As a side note for all you sci-fi fanatics, years ago I read some sci fi book where the aliens that were met, were Jewish. The pic on the cover had a green (of course) alien wearing a talit. And it was written by a serious sci-fi author.
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