Light
Update:
Genesis 1:3-5 is referring to “light” visibility (telescope view) arriving in the Earth’s region for the first time.
Genesis 1:16-19 is referring to “great lights” fully functional as clocks calibrated to measure “day and night…signs [e.g. eclipse, equinox]…seasons… days and years” etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyc3bDFk84w
Gn 1:3 “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. AV 4 And seeing is the Elohim the light, that it is good.
And separating is the Elohim between the light and the darkness.” CLV
“Let there be light” is not creation of luminaries, they’re already created when “God created heaven and earth.” “Let there be light” refers to Earth’s sky (firmament) capacity for “light” translucency is online—Earth’s “Dark Ages” is interrupted; a “light-dark” (day-night) rotation is discernible for the first time from Earth’s surface.
This “light” transparency is the same transparency permeating the cosmos allowing WMAP and COBE probes see back in time as far as the CMBR event, when this cosmic opaqueness (“Dark Ages”) became transparent.
Initial opaqueness is because very hot matter was crammed together into a smaller universe. Cosmos expansion (still occurring today) allows it to loosen up and cool. This also allows the quark-gluon plasma to form into protons. Most of the photons at this time in the universe are interacting with electrons and protons in the photon–baryon fluid, and the universe is still opaque or "foggy." There is light but not light we could observe through telescopes.
The baryonic matter in the universe consisted of ionized plasma (with positively charged hydrogen and helium nuclei, and negatively charged electrons) which became neutral when it gained free electrons during "recombination." This “recombination” releases decoupled photons to freely roam infusing the universe with transparency throughout its various regions. Plausibly, “Let there be light: and there was light,” is when Earth’s region arrives at this state of FREE-ROAMING photon transparency (telescope viewing).
Photons roaming the universe freely is how we are able to see the residual cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR)—the “afterglow" pattern of the Big Bang freely propagating through space. Scientists consider this to be one of the strongest pieces of observational evidence for the Big Bang theory.
Can't conflate Hebrew terms "created" and "made."
“Create” Hebrew root bara means novel ( absolute) : a total new thing
In the beginning was “created bara heaven and earth.”
Ro 4:17 “God...who creates new things out of nothing. NLT …. Hb 11:3 the visible has its origin in the invisible.” NET
. “Made” Hebrew root `asah means, to do or make (in the broadest sense); to fashion, to prepare, to engage; aboutness, etc
Gn 1:16-19 “ God made `asah two great lights…fourth day” AV
This 3300 year track record is compelling when it comes to credibility:
1) It's FIRST to get the Big Bang ORIGIN of the universe right
2) It's FIRST to get the EXPANSION of the universe right
3) It's FIRST to get "let there be LIGHT" in the universe right
4) It's FIRST to get the ORDER of creation right
This is the only one you can argue. But Neo-Darwinism and abiogenesis speculations are frauds, verifiable by the fossil record as well the latest DNA findings. It's pointless to argue fantasy.
Fossil record does point to other findings consistent with Genesis:
We know Mammoths preserved in the Arctic Siberia permafrost have tropical vegetation in their stomachs. Their death (ingesting tropical flora) tells us the climate was tropical and their preservation has a quick frozen catastrophic cause.
It’s plausible that the 3 rd day condition of Earth is a tropical-subtropical flora conservatory (with no polar climate extremes) consistent with a stratospheric water canopy (protective screen), above the sky (firmament), giving the Earth a uniform greenhouse temperature; a flora incubator, as it were, as the Sun light is diffuse (enough for photosynthesis).
