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To: SlowBoat407

No, no.

"Let there be light" came AFTER the Big Bang.

God had to create the universe first. Light was only later.


26 posted on 11/03/2005 4:56:30 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
"Let there be light" came AFTER the Big Bang. God had to create the universe first. Light was only later.

Genesis 1:1 describes the cosmological beginning of the universe (which includes light, but not the "fiat lux" variety). Genesis 1:2 describes an Earth that has already been formed, and moves the point-of-view of the narrative to the surface of the Earth. Genesis 1:3 describes the preparation of the Earth for life (or renewed life, if you interpret 1:2 as describing an extinction event). That's where, "Let there be light," comes into play. I'm not sure why there wasn't light before -- perhaps the sky was heavily overcast, or nothing had evolved eyes yet.

30 posted on 11/03/2005 5:15:33 AM PST by Caesar Soze
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