Separating light and darkness in Genesis

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LIZ  (3/1)(almost forgot the golden rule of names)
Ok, I'm new, so bear with me...JohnGalt, this is the email I was going to just
send you, but since SJW brought it up...  :-)

SJW

>Genesis

>3

And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. 


>SJW

>Okay, this one is easy.  God flipped the light switch to "on".



>Genesis

>4

>And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from

>the darkness. 



>SJW

>If God saw that the light was bad would he have kept light and

>darkness mixed together?  I guess God was happy that he could finally

>see what in the heck was going on.


LIZ (3/1)
This light and darkness is the second big problem with the bible...after the
mysterious "blob" of verse 2.  Reason why?  It's complicated, so bear with me.

A shadow is created by an object of matter (of course) standing in the way of
light's path.  Therefore, without light you can't have a shadow.  My point in
saying this is that all of the known darkness on earth is the result of some
sort of shadow.  The far away stars are sources of light, but distance dims
their effect on us, and so does our atmosphere.  Therefore, there has been no
darkness that hasn't been simply an effect of light that is known of.

Contradicting this point, without darkness there is no light.  This is because
light IS an energy force that illuminates darkness.  Without the darkness,
what would light illuminate?  It simply couldn't exist.

So, verse 3 is a problem because God couldn't have light in the "empty void"
because there wasn't any darkness yet to light up.  Then, verse 4 is also a
problem because light and darkness does not separate.  You have to have both
to have either.  In other words, to have light you must have darkness, and to
have darkness you must have light.

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