[1:3] Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
[1:4] And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
[1:5] God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
God must have caused the earth to spin to separate the
light from the darkness.
On the other hand if you accept Genesis literally, such speculation is not encouraged by verses 3 - 5.
I'm not sure why you think that.
it basically says that the first day was created
in the first day that God applied the work he applied to make
the first day.
then a few days latter we see this.
on the 4th day.
[1:14] And God said, "Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,
[1:15] and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth." And it was so.
[1:16] God made the two great lights - the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night - and the stars.
[1:17] God set them in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth,
[1:18] to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
[1:19] And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
we know that the earth is older than the moon , but how did Moses know that?
