Israeli cave: World's first factory?

Jerusalem Post ^ | Tuesday, October 4, 2011 | David Rosenberg

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In a cave not far from where thousands of Israelis work in hi-tech companies in the Afek Industrial Zone, their Paleolithic ancestors were engaged in some of their own cutting-edge innovation and manufacturing.

Indeed, the people who produced the thousands of knives and other tools in Qassem Cave between 200,000 and 400,000 years ago may have been the world's first industrial workers, says Ran Barkai, who with two other Tel Aviv University archeologists, Ron Shimelmitz and Avi Gopher, has been excavating the site.

Their findings, based on the examination of more than 19,000 stone implements produced and used by the cave's inhabitants, appear in the October issue of The Journal of Human Evolution.

The people of Qassem Cave not only developed what appears to be the earliest system of mass production but engaged in other activities that Barkai and his colleagues describe as modern, such as parceling off their limestone habitation into areas dedicated to specific activities like butchering and eating. That pushes back the date for many practices by tens of thousands of years...

Man's ancestors were making simple stone tools in Africa at the time, but in Qassem Cave the inhabitants set up stone age production lines, as evidenced by the huge number of implements found by the archeologists. Until now, the earliest instances of mass production date back to no more than 40,000 years ago...

Located about 12 kilometers (8 miles) east of Tel Aviv in the Samarian foothills, Qassem Cave is typical of the area, where caverns are created as acidic water dissolves the limestone rock that predominates the area's geology. Originally an underground cavern, geological shifts created an opening that enabled the cave to be inhabited for 200,000 years before closing up again.

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I accept what the Scriptures say as well. Look here: http://concordances.org/hebrew/3117.htm

Yom doesn’t have to mean day as in a 24 period. It can mean a much longer or even an undefined period of time.

Isn’t this your source: http://www.answersincreation.org/word_study_yom.htm

So it doesn’t really describe six 24 hour days, plus a seventh. Plus it doesn’t use the word ex nihilo or ‘out of nothing’ to describe creation. We don’t know anything from the Bible prior to Genesis 1:1. The ex nihilo presumption is eisegisis and an interpolation by men.

Take a look here and seek out the actual Hebrew words. http://biblos.com/genesis/1-1.htm You’ll find that they are open to interpretation.

Here’s verse 2: http://biblos.com/genesis/1-2.htm The word ‘create’ means absolutely or from pre-existing matter. There isn’t any ‘and’ in verse 2. It simply says that the earth was in a state of chaos and needed to be put in order. Check it out.