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come under the plants, and all the vegetation in its fruit would come under the trees. As soon as the
inanimate material was ready to sustain life, without delay, life in its simplest form was created and
intended to be the food for all of the higher life yet to be made.

Day 4 – Genesis 1:14-19 – Day 4 Creation of the Sun, Moon, and Stars

14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to
separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and
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for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the
expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. And
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God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the
lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. And God set them in the
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expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, to rule over the day
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and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God
saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning, the fourth day. (ESV)
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God established not only the solar day but the week, month, and seasons. The pattern for the
chronology was set in place.

Distant Star Light Problem

Sometimes Christians are reluctant to discuss the age of the universe. The Bible states that God created
in six days, and its genealogies clearly indicate that this took place only a few thousand years ago. But
some people reason, “Hasn’t science demonstrated that it would take billions of years for the light from
the farthest galaxies to reach the earth? Doesn’t this disprove the Genesis account or force us to
interpret the words differently?”

Not at all.

Remember, God created the entire universe with apparent age. Everything was fully mature from the
days of creation, and the entire eco-structure was fully interrelated. All systems were in place as if they
had been operating for thousands of years.

We should also remember that God is not limited to natural methods as we are. God could have easily
made the light not only emanate from stars, but He could have created the light on its path along the
way at the same time. Remember, God created a fully mature universe.

Remember, the objections to light travel are based on the speed of light as we know it today. If the
speed of light were faster in previous years, then our calculations of light speed in the past may be
significantly altered.

Ironically, the leading secular alternative to the Bible (the Big Bang) has its own light-travel time
problem. Known as the “horizon problem,” the Big Bang is unable to get light from one side of the
universe to the other within its own “billions-of-year” timeframe. xxiii To alleviate this problem, big bang
supporters must arbitrarily add another hypothesis, like “inflation” (which has problems of its own).

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