"Let there be light"

From: The Genesis Record - Henry Morris


        Ok, here it is as from Henry Morris and it makes
sense to me. This quote is from "The Genesis Record," [pgs 65-66].

        "On the first day of creation, G-d created and energized
the entire universe, the infinite sphere of divine activity and
purpose.  On the second day, He made the primeval hydroshpere and
atmosphere for the terrestrial sphere.  On the third day, He made
the earth's lithospere and plant biosphere.
 
Finally, on the fourth day, He made the astrosphere, the
"celestial sphere" of the stars and planets surrounding and
illuminating the terrestrial sphere.

        On the first day, He had said: "Let there be Light!"
(Hebrew or). On the fourth day, He said: "Let there be lights"
(or light-givers, Hebrew ma-or).  Intrinsic light first, then
generators of the light later, is both the logical and the
Biblical order.

        The chief purpose of both the light of the first
three days and the light-givers of all later days was to
"divide the light from the darkness" (verses 4, 18), and
this can only mean that the two regimes were essentially 
identical.  The duration of the days and nights was the 
same in each case, and the directions of the light emanation
on the earth from space must have been the same in each case.

        In other words, light rays were impinging on the
earth as it rotated on its axis during the first three days
of essentially the same intensities and directions as those
which would later emanate from the heavenly bodies to be
emplaced on the fourth day. 

Light was coming during the day as though from the sun and
during the night as though from the moon and stars, even though 
they had not yet been made.

        If such a concept sounds strange, let it be remembered
that it is as easy for G-d to create waves of light energy as
to create generators to produce such waves.  There was no need
for such generators except to serve the additional function 
(after man's creation) of making "signs and seasons, days 
and years."

        It therefore did not take a billion years for the
light from a star which is a billion light-years distant from
the earth to reach the earth after the star was created.

The light-trail from the star was created in transit, as it
were, all the way from the star to the earth, three days before
the star itself was created!

As noted earlier, the universe was created "full-grown" from the
beginning; G-d did not require millions of years to develop it
into its intended usable form.  The purpose of the heavenly bodies
was "to give light upon the earth"; so this is what they did, right
from the beginning."  

The Genesis Record [pgs 65-66] by Henry M. Morris