Separating light and darkness in Genesis(Creation)

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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.

>

MICHAEL MCGILL(3/01)
Very well said Liz. How can you have darkness without Light? If there 
wasn't any Light there would be no darkness, they exist together, you 
wouldn't know what one is without the other. And how can Light and 
darkness be separated? Those statements in Genesis about creating Light 
and then separating Light from darkness sounds absurd.

Also those that believe in the Genesis creation story believe in 
something from nothing, you begin with nothing and you get something, not 
just something but EVERYTHING, everything came from nothing, a new 
mathematics, something from nothing, gives you something. Or if 
everything didn't come from nothing, then it came from something that 
already existed and wasn't created, and in that case creation would be 
made up of something that already existed and that wasn't created. 
Hmmmmm...

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