Doesn't say that. It says God made "the two great lights...the greater one to rule the day and the lesser one to rule the night."
From the beginning of Christianity, theologians knew there was something funny about the days of Gen 1, because how can you have morning and evening on days 1-3 if the sun and moon aren't made yet? They saw right away there was something odd going on.
My personal opinion is that the sun (at least) was created with the light on day 1. Earth then had a hazy, perpetually cloudy atmosphere like Venus's. There was day and night but no heavenly bodies were visible. The creation of the plants on Day 3 released massive quantities of free oxygen into the air, and our atmosphere went from (if I remember my biology classes right) a cloudy reducing one to a clear oxygenating one. On Day 4, the sun and moon and stars first became visible to the surface of the earth and could be used to tell time.
Perhaps Genesis chose to say "the two lights" rather than "the sun and moon" for a reason. Because it wasn't the bodies themselves that were made on that day, just the light from them.
You stated QUOTE: Doesn't say that. It says God made "the two great lights...the greater one to rule the day and the lesser one to rule the night."
Not sure why you contradicted my statement, but the scripture plainly states
Gen 1:14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the vault 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. 17God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
Psalm 104:2 The LORD wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent
God himself was the light on the earth for the first four days of creation.