It sounds a lot like the Big Bang! Once, there was nothing, then in a split instant (as the astrophysicists also tell us) light etc., was created.

That's nothing like what the astrophysicists tell us. Current estimations suggest that there was no light until about 3 to 400,000 years after the big bang. click here. Hardly the biblical account!

This has been a really interesting thread though, and I'd like to pay particular tribute to Bill D's contributions.

The following was intended for Carl Sagan, but I think it fits Bill just as well:

"He is wise, humane, polymathic, gentle, witty, well-read, and incapable of composing a dull sentence."

And if you don't like the fact that I'm posting as a 'guest' you can....