No, there simply must be a directed light source. That's what scripture describes. God made light, divided the light from the darkness and on day 4 made the sun to direct light.
Your claim is like saying the power company must hook up electrical lines to a construction site, before construction can begin. When the problem is easily solved by a generator.
I made no such representation. I merely looked at John who described the beginning of the world and compared it to Noah's and see that John is making the statement that
4In him was life, and the life was the light of men, 5and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive itThe two verses one in Gen and one in John seem to parallel each other. Which means the one in Gen wasn't about physical light, it was about a light that was the "light of men" that comes from the life in Jesus. I rather take John's interpretation before my own or yours.