Genesis does not fail scientific study: Day 4

Now we come to the most illogical verses - for the human brain:

14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse 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.

17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.

19 And there was evening, and there was morning--the fourth day."

God now saw it fit to mention the Sun, moon, planets, and stars!

But everyone knows that the Sun provides us with energy, heat and light.

That includes even the most uncivilised and backward tribes.

So if anyone was to write an account of the beginning of the world, it would be intellectual suicide to create the Sun at this point, but God does!

"By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible." Hebrews 11:3

Perhaps God was showing us that we don't need the Sun to survive, God can provide the right conditions without the Sun.

Some scientists would say 'ridiculous', obviously the planets were born, by being thrown out of the Sun, then they gradually cooled and became solid planets.

Six of the planets in our Solar System have a total of 32 'moons' orbiting them, but 11 of these moons are orbiting in the wrong direction to their mother planet.

Evolution creates as many questions as it seeks to answer!

Some people believe that the Sun, moon, planets, and stars were created before this, but thick cloud cover hid them from view, (the creation is described as if viewed from the earth).

So at this point the thick clouds separated and so the sun was revealed giving the appearance that these objects in space had just been created.

The description of the day stills remains identical: "And there was evening, and there was morning--the forth day." therefore the length of the 'day' must be identical.

God tells us that these "lights in the expanse of the sky" were "to give light on the earth"

But the Sun was not only to shed light; the Sun, moon, planets, and stars were put there to "serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years"

The phases of the moon, our orbit around the Sun, and the movements of the stars, all help man to measure time.

The Babylonians, Egyptians and Greeks knew that a solar eclipse takes place every 18 years and 11 days.

Historians have been able to give a fixed date to certain events in history, because they have fallen on a certain eclipse, or whatever.