Going back to your original claim, three1, about sunlight not being daylight, because what Genesis say about the 1st day and 4th day, it does contradict what we know now about the the Earth relationship with the Sun.
What we know from science is that Earth is not flat, not stationary, and it is not the Sun moving our sky, but the Earth rotating itself on its axis that the sun provide light when he Earth’s surface is facing the sun.
That’s how the Earth is receiving daylight. The daylight does com from the Sun’s rays.
Even when part of the Earth isn’t facing the sun, thereby inhabitants in these regions are experiencing night time for some hours, and when the Moon can be seen, the only light that shine on the surface is still sunlight that’s being reflected off the Moon’s surface. The Moon itself have no light of its own; the Sun is the original source of light for both day and night.
Genesis 1:3-5 (1st day) is wrong to believe that the original source of light don’t come from the Sun. Genesis 1:14-19 is also wrong to say the Sun and stars were created AFTER the creation of the Earth (1:1-2).
It is quite obvious that the authors have very little understanding of the Earth, Sun, Moon and stars. That in this day and ages that some people, particularly creationists think Genesis 1 is all true, cannot learn and will not learn, that Genesis 1 (as well as chapter 2) defy all knowledge we have with all these astronomical bodies.
The sun and all the planets in the Solar System were formed from nebulous gases and debris from earlier stars that went supernova, creating elements heavier than hydrogen, helium and lithium (look up “stellar nucleosynthesis” and “supernova nucleosynthesis”), heavier elements, such as carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, nickel, iron, lead, etc. All these elements are materials of what make up all the planets (including dwarf planets), moons, asteroids, comets, etc.
The sun itself is comprised of number layers that include the surface (photosphere), radiative zone, convective zone and the core. Much of the elements on all 4 layers are mostly made of hydrogen, with each layers becoming denser the further down you go, towards the core.
It is the Core itself that provide heat, radiation and energy to the rest of the layers. It where hydrogen nuclei fuse together to form the heavier helium nuclei, which we know as thermonuclear fusion, a process known as Stellar Nucleosynthesis.
Nuclear fusion provide a great deal heat and energy, that it would cause heat transfer to the Convective Zone, and the heat transfer continued to the Radiative Zone of the Sun, and that it turn heat up the Photosphere.
What we can see on the surface with telescopes, is hydrogen in plasma form, being incandescent. That provide the light and heat for the rest of the Solar System, including the Earth.
There are no light sources that could give Earth daylight.
If you really think daylight doesn’t come from sunlight, then you are still living in the Iron Age, where they have really very little understanding of astronomy, and where the “God did it” superstitions rule supreme...and the authors to Genesis were wrong.
The orders of creation in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 are wrong on both accounts. 1 and 2 not only contradict each other, there are no scientific knowledge in these 2 chapters.
