Day 4 - continuing the Genesis narrative
Creation day 4 is when Earth’s atmosphere is transformed from always translucent to being at least intermittently transparent so that animals on day 5 will be able to see the positions of the Sun, Moon, and stars in the sky and use those positions to regulate their biological clocks.
The second great oxygenation event transformed Earth’s atmosphere from a dense haze into a transparent sky* - oxygen is needed to make the atmosphere clear.
Recap of events prior to Day 4:
Before Earth days – Genesis 1:1 - translated “the heavens and the earth indicates that the entire physical universe—including our solar system—was created prior to creation day one on Earth. Thus, the Sun existed before the preparation of the Earth for life even started.
On day one, “Let there be light”, light, already existent and emanating from the Sun, could now pierce through the darkness of the primordial planet’s opaque atmosphere. Light could now reach Earth’s surface. However, an Earth observer would not, at this point, have been able to see the source of this light.
This limited, non-visible, light was sufficient for the survival of vegetation, which science now confirms predated complex animal life, as Genesis indicates. Not until later, on day 4, did the atmosphere become transparent enough for a terrestrial observer to see the sources of both daytime and nighttime light.
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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoprotero...tion_event
**Day 4
Genesis 1: 14-19 13And there was evening, and there was morning— the third day.
14And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.…
15And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so.
16God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well. 17God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth,
19And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
Creation day 4 is when Earth’s atmosphere is transformed from always translucent to being at least intermittently transparent so that animals on day 5 will be able to see the positions of the Sun, Moon, and stars in the sky and use those positions to regulate their biological clocks.
The second great oxygenation event transformed Earth’s atmosphere from a dense haze into a transparent sky* - oxygen is needed to make the atmosphere clear.
Recap of events prior to Day 4:
Before Earth days – Genesis 1:1 - translated “the heavens and the earth indicates that the entire physical universe—including our solar system—was created prior to creation day one on Earth. Thus, the Sun existed before the preparation of the Earth for life even started.
On day one, “Let there be light”, light, already existent and emanating from the Sun, could now pierce through the darkness of the primordial planet’s opaque atmosphere. Light could now reach Earth’s surface. However, an Earth observer would not, at this point, have been able to see the source of this light.
This limited, non-visible, light was sufficient for the survival of vegetation, which science now confirms predated complex animal life, as Genesis indicates. Not until later, on day 4, did the atmosphere become transparent enough for a terrestrial observer to see the sources of both daytime and nighttime light.
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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoprotero...tion_event
**Day 4
Genesis 1: 14-19 13And there was evening, and there was morning— the third day.
14And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.…
15And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so.
16God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well. 17God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth,
19And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.
