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one interpretation is that there was no sun (nor moon) visible until the 3rd day.

The plants were created after the suns got lit up. (Not necessarily OUR sun, but one or more suns condensed enough to make light. Then the earth (solid planets) were formed, then the atmosphere was separated (formed) from the internal molten rock of the planet as the crust cooled.

Plants were only formed (created) AFTER the sea (one sea around the ONE continent that existed at that time) was separated from the land. Which evolutionists now tell us is what happened.

Two schools of thought follow: One is that plants DID live before the moon was formed by collision.... The other is that the moon was formed by collision before plants (bateria and the one-celled critters that changed our atmosphere into the clear oxygen/CO2 we have from the murky glop around Venus.)

Thus when Genesis says that the moon and stars were placed "for navigation in the night" he's referring to the earth's tilt aligning precisely with the north star (so people can navigate). It's not that moon and stars were suddenly created, but that the moon and stars were only becoming visible AFTER the plants cleared up the atmosphere so animals could evolve.

Genesis 1:14-19
14. And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years,
15. and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so.
16. God made two great lights--the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
17. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth,
18. to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19. And there was evening, and there was morning--the fourth day.

I see no NAVIGATE in here...............

(no NEED to, BTW, for A&E had the GARDEN in which to live.)

As for the NORTH star; it matters not much WHERE the axis is 'pointed', there WILL be some kind of star close to be used as a pointer to NORTH. Sirius will NOT be the NS for too long before the presession of the Earth (just like a child's top) will cause the axis to trace a circle in the heavens that takes about 22,000 years to complete one cycle.

In the Southern hemisphere, there is NO bright star that is used as the SOUTH star, merely an asterism called the Southern Cross which is fairly close to the needed location.

Two schools of thought follow: One is that plants DID live before the moon was formed by collision.... The other is that the moon was formed by collision before plants (bateria and the one-celled critters that changed our atmosphere into the clear oxygen/CO2 we have from the murky glop around Venus.)

What we DO know for certain is that in the limited samples of rock that HAVE been returned from the Moon by our astronauts, there has been NO discovery of ANY signs of 'life'.

Thus when Genesis says that the moon and stars were placed "for navigation in the night" he's referring to the earth's tilt aligning precisely with the north star (so people can navigate).

There's just one problem with that theory...the stars move. We regard them as static because they don't move much in an individual lifetime, but even in recorded history the stars have migrated quite a bit. In 3000 BC, for example, astronomical records clearly show that Thuban held the pole position, and Polaris was simply "nearby". In the time of Christ, there WAS NO pole star, and navigators determined north by finding the two stars (Thuban and Polaris) and declaring it to be the spot precisely between them. Today, Polaris has assumed the spot (it will actually be closest to true north around 2100, and then start moving away again). 5000 years from now, Alderamin will be the pole star. 12,000 years from now Vega will be the pole star. Between those times will be LONG stretches with no pole star at all.

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... ... ... Thus when Genesis says that the moon and stars were placed "for navigation in the night" he's referring to the earth's tilt aligning precisely with the north star (so people can navigate). It's not that moon and stars were suddenly created, but that the moon and stars were only becoming visible AFTER the plants cleared up the atmosphere so animals could evolve.

You have given me some points to think about.
Thanks.