[UCANSEE2]

“The dark Earth was created first, then light? “

First, you are correct. The story in Genesis of the creation of the Earth, does seem a bit simplistic.

Because it is. No one back then had the advanced scientific knowledge we have today to describe the unfolding of the entire universe and eventual evolution of the Earth and the parasites that grow on it.

There are planets in our solar system, that still are dark.

But, to get a planet to where the electromagnetic shield, and greenhouse gases provide a relatively stable and hospitable environment for life, takes a long, long time.

Those sheepherders had no high school, nor Physics class available.

It is we, who should be smarter, who can interpret the intent of Genesis, instead of the literal description of an ancient sheepherder.

Regardless to whether we accept the sheepherder’s dictation, or current scientific concepts on the creation of Earth, or the Universe, there is no proof either is true, or that they both don’t amount to the same thing.

[broncobilly]

You surrender too easily.
Physics says that planets were forming before there was light!
As the gaseous nebula began to collapse and spin, becoming a spinning disc, aggregations or proto planets began to form. Long after that, the core of the spinning disc system contracted and heated until the point was reached where first it became incandescent and then became a sun with the ignition of thermonuclear fusion. With that ignition, the interplanetary gas was blown away, leaving the planets much as we have them.
So the sequence was, first the planets formed, the core became incandescent (a weak source of light through the haze,) and then the blowing away of the interplanetary dust (the sun appearing and there being night and day on the planets.)
So not only were the planets created before the light, but the first light came before night and day, just as you read in Genesis.