Before time existed, there was God. He created the whole world in 6 days moving from simple things to some of the most complex beings in existence. God started with light and dark and ended with creating mankind. In a sense, God was making a story that opened with a slow beginning and closed with the grand finale. The reason creation of mankind is the grand finale is because God took dust from the ground and formed it into man. This shows us that God took extra time on man and dirtied his hands to make us. After he created us, God appointed man to take dominion upon the earth and to rule it.