What do you suppose the light source was on day number one of creation, since the sun wasn't created till day number four? God said, "Let there be light," and...? He made a lantern? What?
Terry Pratchet said that light isn't the fastest thing in the universe. He points out that wherever light goes, dark got there first.
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                                        Current understanding is that when the universe cooled enough to allow electrons to bind with protons forming hydrogen, the first light was generated about 370,000 years after this universe commenced.
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                                        Dark is dark, light is light!!!
Hence how could anything create without light!!!
Unless you live deep in a cave or the inside of a blackhole!!!
Does it really matter???
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                                        I would love to live in one of the caves back home!
A little known fact is that that god was a drunk, which explained many of the design considerations that made final production. What he did was decide to light a fart on fire. Of course, the poets and priests didn't find this funny, so they changed the quote a bit. The scientists have also found evidence of this but have mistakenly thought this was a rapid expansion from a singularity that was jokingly named "the big bang." Sadly, their description was rather appropriate, even if it was for all the wrong reasons. (Imagine reading it with the voice of Douglas Adams.)
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                                        I had to look up the 7 days of creation to understand what you were talking about. Its very funny. Perhaps he just needed a little light on day 1.... to light his bong perhaps.
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                                        It may have helped generate the modern idea of Lucifer, ( Lucifer means light. ) as a fallen angel, the idea that the first thing God, the god of goodness, creates, is his opposite the god of evil. Though it is much mixed up with Greek and Egyptian mythologies in the usual tangle. [en.wikipedia.org]
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                                        Judging by the flatus theory, 'god' would eventually need to land. Granted, I have only tested flatus density by the simple method of timing how long it takes for me to clear an office. Additional input, ( or in this case, output) might or might not be welcome.
Photons. Those create light. Darkness was also created along with it.
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                                        Why would he have to CREATE darkness? With no light darkness is what you've got.
@Wakenbaker There is no he, or Thou, so the question is moot.
And the Lord God said "Let there be Light!"
And there was Light.
And you could see for sodding miles!
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                                        Which ‘god’? Allah? Jesus Christ? Perhaps Trumpty Dumpty?
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                                        That would be the Christian god mentioned in Genesis, in that book of nonsense known as the Bible.
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