# How did God create light before the Sun? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 6, 2000, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-god-create-light-before-the-sun/17597 "2000-02-06T22:20:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-god-create-light-before-the-sun/17597/81 "2013-06-07T18:53:40Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Dr. Harry Rimmer – an apologist with the Moody Bible Institute which is ironic because now I feel like I should apologize to him for his name. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-god-create-light-before-the-sun/17597/82 "2013-06-07T20:39:20Z")
> [@lekatt](#): > > Unfortunately there is fear, and all the negative emotions that it causes. The grief and pain it brings into this world is legions. I was afraid you would say that. ---
**Author:** ![mocantimoteidavid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@mocantimoteidavid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mocantimoteidavid)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-god-create-light-before-the-sun/17597/83 "2013-08-31T17:52:24Z")
> [@tbea925](#): > > Soup said: > In the book of Genesis, God created light two days before He created the sun and moon. > > Well, technically, the moon does not emit light. > > And, there are plants that don’t need light (such as yeast. > > There are manny sources of light other than the fusuion of hydrogen atoms. It could not have been a flashlight, though, because the Energizer Bunny wasn’t created until the 5th day. My question for you is what are those sources of light others than the stars? Please answer! I really need the response! Thank you anticipated ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-god-create-light-before-the-sun/17597/84 "2013-08-31T18:57:12Z")
> [@mocantimoteidavid](#): > > My question for you is what are those sources of light others than the stars? [Here’s one.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioluminescence) [More.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_light_sources) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-god-create-light-before-the-sun/17597/85 "2013-08-31T18:59:03Z")
> [@mocantimoteidavid](#): > > My question for you is what are those sources of light others than the stars? > Please answer! I really need the response! > > Thank you anticipated Think of it as poetic license(and it sounds much better in the original Klingon.) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-god-create-light-before-the-sun/17597/86 "2013-08-31T19:20:43Z")
[QUOTE=;415255] [Using my mod powers to get my post to make more sense] [/QUOTE] The important question in this thread is, who is this mod who offended the great god, Cecil, as to suffer _damnatio memoriae?_ That’s an impressive amount of offensiveness. ---
**Author:** ![SirGalahad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71c47a/32.png) [@SirGalahad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirGalahad)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-god-create-light-before-the-sun/17597/87 "2013-08-31T19:33:06Z")
I only skimmed the thread, but I’m not seeing all the obligatory zombie jokes and allusions. I’m disappointed. But on to the subject at hand, I can answer that question. Long ago, an unseen spirit made the telepathic suggestion to a primitive Bronze Age goat-herd that it’s kind had created the Earth, and the story was passed on word of mouth for generations. Unfortunately one of the line in the oral tradition had some sort of quasi-dyslexia and switched the order of events from, “Next we created the Sun and then we created the Earth, and then we put the Moon in orbit …” to what we have documented in the historical written versions of the Holy Bible. It was, in short, a cognitive “D’oh” that left Xtians with an embarrassingly inaccurate chunk of Scripture. Does it matter, really. It’s not like the rest of the book is particularly scientific … it’s collection of fables and parables with a dose of alternately tedious and violent history. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-god-create-light-before-the-sun/17597.md?page=4)