149. vonhayek There are actually plants before the sun in Genesis. This has been known for 3000 years, and during time everyone knew plants need the sun to grow. I guess that means its all BS.

At the epoch of last scattering (about 380,000 years after the big bang) the temperature of the “flash” that we call the Cosmic Microwave Background was consistent with a black body at 4,000 degrees K, only one thousand degrees below that of the sun’s surface today, hence a nice orange glow. This is the “light of the first day” that Bible literalists like to beat critical thinkers and philosophy students over the head with. However, they neglect the fact that the sun didn’t ignite until some 8 billion years later, during which time that orange flash rapidly cooled through the visible range into the infrared, well on its way toward the microwave range of our current epoch, which consistent with a black body at 2.7 degrees K.