Can you create light before you create the stars?
Interesting question. Did the Big Bang create light? I donât know but it seems feasible and it would have occurred before the creation of stars.
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In this we agree.
Cosmic Microwave Background
My brother, the electrician, explained it to me. I wonât remember, the many spheres of light he could name. There is the whole electromagnetic spectrum. Radiation energy that travels and spaces out as it goes. Speed of light, light years.
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Impossible.
There are no talking serpents or androgynous Adamâs who can spit out their female side.
You do know that Yahweh is an androgynous god. Right?
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DL
He is God. The great I AM.
The problem is that there are many people who do take the Bible literally.
And when you show them the errors in the Bible, they just ignore it.
For example the light of the sun and the moon.
But the moon is not a light. Light is reflected from it.
Thatâs just one example.
Itâs not visible light.
A dome covers one part of something, in this case a finite part of the earth.
Not the same as an atmosphere or âsphereâ which covers the whole earth.
Neither is gamma radiation, and yet the universe was filled with that before stars as well. lol
Literalists think that the Earth was created in 6 days of 24 hours each.
There is a verse in the Bible that says that a day is like a thousand years to God.
But even having the earth created in 6,000 years doesnât account for the dinosaurs.
Which have been scientifically proven to have been on earth for millions of years, not just 6,000.
Thatâs really where Genesis falls down.
Alex, why is that a a problem?
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So weâve established there was no visible light until God decided to make the sun?
Which was on the fourth day.
Frankly this is the only part of the first few stories that give the Bible an air of verisimiltude, leading to the thouht that bits of the Bible might be true.
Because logically one would expect that the sun and the stars would be created on the very first day⌠by getting things turned around, people could wonder if it might be true simply because it makes no sense.
No, weâve established that there was indeed light before the stars, regardless of any nitpicking to visible or not. I mean, not that there wasnât visible light either. lol
Itâs not a âproblemâ - itâs just a conundrum to me.
My main interest in religion - all religions - (and indeed in other topics such as politics. ) is how and why people believe what they believe.
I donât understand how literalists can claim the Bible is the inerrant word of God, but when you list all the errors in the Bible, they just wave them aside as if they donât matter. Those errors certainly arenât a problem to literalists. ; )
And that interests me. Youâd think it would be.
If I could find a shrug emoticon, Iâd use it.
I accept your surrender.
Total indifference is not surrender.
May I ask where you found that emoticon? On which row of the dozens of rows I see when I pull up the choices?
Itâs OK, I know it mustâve been hard to argue that the light permeating the entirety of the physical cosmos wasnât really there, because visible human spectrum. 
<â type a colon, then âman_shrugging:â but once you type the : a list of emoticons will be displayed.
