first day of Creation

On the first day, light was created, light was separated from the darkness and day and night were named.  Why is it that the existence of the earth predated the existence of light?  Could the condensation of the stellar nebula have occurred from the outer disk inward?  So light was started or the thermonuclear fires of stellar hydrogen fusion were ignited, but is there yet, earth, and if not, this may explain why light is divided from darkness of the first day, even thought Night and Day are named on the first day, they are not divided until the fourth day.

On the second day, the firmament was established dividing the waters above from the waters below and the firmament was called heaven.  The waters above the firmament would seem to indicate the Oort cloud (a group of cometary objects surrounding the solar system at about the distance of one light year), but since the observations of the gas giants in our system and gas giants orbiting other stars indicate that their orbits have not always been stable, perhaps establishing the firmament also had to do with the stabilization of those orbits; unless this migration had to do rather with either the beginning or end of the great bombardment.  If the placement of the firmament preceded the formation of the moon, then the waters under the firmament must have included many comets of the de Kuiper belt.  The snowball earth period of the Permian extinction would be a good place for the third day of creation.  The soot and smoke are beginning to settle lower in the atmosphere, making room for carbon dioxide and methane to await God’s command for the seas to melt and the dry land to appear.

On the third day, this command was worded to indicate that the waters under the firmament called heaven were to be gathered into one place and that that would cause the dry land to appear.  While God called the dry land earth, we call it Pangaea.  It is supposed to be the breakup of Pangaea that starts the Siberian eruption.  The ordination of the moon to be the lesser light of the night happens on the fourth day, this is when impact ejecta coalesces into the moon.  This is also why the division of day and night are on the fourth day even though they were named on the first day.  After the earth became formless and void, Darkness came upon the face of the waters and the Holy Spirit brooded and at this time, light has yet to be separated from darkness, meaning that darkness was all.  This is either before the ignition of the sun or the earth is obscured behind a cloud of dust and soot in such a way that practically speaking, there was no light on earth.  Prior to the third day, there was no dry land on earth.  A sky obscured and the waters below the firmament describe conditions that are congruent with the scientific descriptions of the snowball earth period of the Permian extinction.  Could this also coincide with the breakup of the super-continent Pangaea?  While the waters are gathered together and the dry land appears, the waters are called seas in the plural as if somehow after the dry land appears, the single body of water becomes plural.  The next event of the third day was the appearance of vegetation and at once we come upon a bias in the book of Genesis.  It is Humanocentric because the types of vegetation listed are all listed later as given by God to humans for food.  Algae, fungus, lichen and slime mold are all glossed over in favor of edible plants.  And gymnosperms at that, grains and herbs bearing seed and fruit that contains the seed of the tree from whence it came.

On the fourth day, God directed the placement of lights in the firmament of heaven for the purpose of dividing the day and night that were named on the first day.  There is also a secondary purpose for the lights in the heavens and that is to act as indicators of the passage of time, specifically seasons, days, and years.  Why are seasons, a longer period of time than days mentioned