Unfortunately, He said it over "water." Now how there was water when God hadn't yet created photons is a bit of a mystery, but the mystery is cleared up in the next verse, where we learn that the "light" God created wasn't the photons at the start of Big Bang, but was, in fact, "daylight." And even more interestingly, God created daylight without a Sun, but he didn't create Night, he only separated it from daylight.
So, in your simple cosmology, water and night may have preexisted God, and sunlight preexisted the sun.
Very complete.
And very wrong.
You're pretty funny. I always get a kick out of talking with people who think science can prove or disprove God. People who think science can "explain" everything. The concept of God comes with a "given" that it is unexplainable. That it is imeasurable. That it is only observable to the extent he wants to be observed. I mean really, we believe in a God that has no boundary of time, space. That existed before time, space, light, or dark. That can be everywhere in the whole universe at one time. (that would be omnipresent)
Honestly, trying to understand God and his ways ... as described above... with science developed by man...now that's crazy.