[GourmetDan]

"Book only says they (the moon and sun) became visible (ruled the night for navigation, if you will) after the plants (already created from the earth, of course) cleared up the previously toxic and opaque atmosphere."

Wrongo.

Book uses the same 'create' word for the sun/moon as it did for the beasts and man.

Now, if you think that the beasts and man only 'became visible' you might have a point.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Riight. No disagreement.

They were created from the earth. Just as the moon was formed from the collision of a large object and the earth.

Neither was "created" (as we think of it) from nothing, their matter already existed. But they could not be seen until the plants cleared up the atmosphere.

Then again, I could argue that this means that plants (now thought to be "only" 3 some-odd billion years old) were actually already present before the moon's collision at around 4 billion some-odd years ago.

We shall see. Science has been wrong before in confirming what the Book already said.