[antiRepublicrat]

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)

You realize that this also means the Earth was created before the Sun, right?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Nooooo. 8<) (Thought I went through this already.)

Everything was created first. Without form or substance, of course.

Then light (condensed), then matter, then the matter condensed into what we now call the planets and cosmos.

Planet, atmosphere, and (one) ocean were formed - stars too as a matter of course. Plants were formed from the earth - so evolution is NOT rejected by Genesis - it is PREDICTED and required by Genesis.

What you're assuming is the "creation" of the sun and moon is what actually only occurred when they became visible after the plants cleaned up the atmosphere. Until then, they were not visible, and not not be used for navigation and light. Alternate position - and perhaps even more correct, is that the first plants are going to found to be older than the moon.

Either view yields the same point: how did these itinerant shepherds wandering the dessert before numbers, zeros, and logarithms and powers-of-ten were invented figure out there was only one continent and one ocean..... When they KNEW from observation and trade that there were many oceans and seas, and many continents?