commonly known as the hot big bang, or simply the Big Bang, which brought not only light, but heat and noise as well, before the sun would form and switch on eventually to become our energy and light source. Prior to that, the earth was ?formless and void,? and darkness prevailed according to Genesis 1:2. One might think that in the young-earth version, six 24-hour days punctuated by intervals of daylight and darkness would be hard to come by, since they claim the sun was not created until the fourth day. This is no deterrence if your mind is made up. Morris says, The formula may be rendered literally: ?And there was evening, then morning --day one,? and so on. It is clear that, beginning with the first day and continuing thereafter, there was established a cyclical succession of days and nights--periods of light and periods of darkness. Such a cyclical light-dark arrangement clearly means that the earth was now rotating on its axis and that there was a source of light on one side of the earth corresponding to the sun, even though the sun was not yet made (Genesis 1:16). It is equally clear that the length of such days could only have been that of a normal solar day. (8) ?Clear?? One could hardly make the case for this being clear. And what does Morris mean by a ?source of light on one side of the earth corresponding to the sun,? but which wasn't the sun? Are we to believe that God set up a giant spotlight or to light up the earth for 72 hours before He energized the sun? Couldn?t this cast the Creator and His creation in a somewhat artificial light? Here is another example of perfectly credible Scripture being made to appear incredible through faulty inconsistencies. If the first four days of creation are periods of time of indefinite length, as many theologians maintain, and not 24-hour periods, as some would say, then the sequence of events becomes possibly plausible. When the Lord created the heavens and the earth, the earth conden...
