3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Questions: To whom is God speaking? Is this the Spirit of God? Is God physically saying these things aloud and through which medium? Why is God lighting up a formless empty earth and waters? Where is the light coming from exactly? Is there a source, like the sun or the stars, or is everyhing illuminated uniformly?
Thoughts: It would seem unnecessary for god to speak for light to emerge. In fact, science provides a rather amazing explanation for the formation of stars. Out of immensely large and dense spheres of hydrogen gas, stars are born. They are enormous collections of gaseous material, whose massive gravitational forces overcome the nuclear forces of the atoms in the core, and in doing so releases an extraordinary amount of energy and light. This natural process has no need for God. It would have happened without anyone there, saying anything. Would it have taken a long time? Yes, billions of years! But did it happen? Of course it did, and it happened long before the earth was even formed. This verse makes no sense and is useless in explaining the origins of the universe and everything in it.
A better verse would have been:
3 300 million years after the birth of the universe, gravity amplifies slight irregularities in the density of the primordial gas of hydrogen, helium, and lithium atoms. Even as the universe continues to expand rapidly, pockets of gas become more and more dense. Stars ignite within these pockets, and groups of stars become the earliest galaxies.
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