Secondly, our common origins contribute to human harmony. None of us in pique or pride can claim to have come from better stock. We are fated to be equal. Thirdly, creation in the singular promotes the belief that all existence owes its state of being to but one grand and incomprehensible creator God. The appearance of human life in different corners of the world might have given rise to the simple-minded notion that each human cluster is the initiative of another deity.
Monotheism is affirmed by a single primogenitor.
And finally, the infinite variety to be found in humankind offers a glimpse of God's unfathomable majesty. In a striking analogy, the Mishna speaks of a die used by a mint to produce coins that are all identical. In Adam and Eve, God also created a die from which all human beings would be minted. But unique to God's die is the mystery that not one human being resembles another. Each is endowed with its own individuality.