Guest, Ed: "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!"

300-400,000 years is hardly a huge length of time by cosmic standards. Using the time-honoured model of a 12-hr clock to represent the history of the universe, the 'light' would have been switched on a fraction of a second after the big bang...

The Bible also says the world was created in 7 days...I think astrophysicists would disagree there also! But I was saying Genesis should be taken that literally, rather that the sequence of events described are in fact quite similar to the way things happened according to the experts.