I thought I would try making it easy, but I guess we'll do it this way.
The distance between two points is the same distance regardless of whether you have designations of what that distance is.
The Distance by route of I-80 between New York City and Los Angeles, will always be about 2900 miles (2905 according to google maps:
New York, NY to San Francisco, CA - Google Maps) regardless of whether there's mile markers and signs or not.
This is just a matter of the Law of Identity, basic logic that is. Every Intro to Logic class will cover the three basic laws: Identity, Non-Contradiction, the Excluded Middle
I'm surprised this one has been a problem for you, as so far you had demonstrated yourself to be more thoughtful than most on these forums. This last post has not made well with that trend.
Well, you raise the question of how does one arive at a seven day creation if the earth did not exist prior to the naming of days. How can the day be a day, if there is no earth to rotate and distinguish Day 1 from Day 2? Well, 24 hours will still be 24 hours regardless of whether there is an earth to rotate or not. That alottment of time, or desigination of time is still going to be the same total amount regardless of what we call it, or what we measure it with. An inch will still be an inch, even if there are no marks on a ruler to desginate one from another. An inch is still an inch, even if we designate it as 2.54 CM.
Thus, one must conclude that the objection you raise is lacking authority. It is, however, a question that forces one to think, and that I appreciate as there are many on these threads who know not how to do that.
No objection.
God made the two seperately.
Earth:
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. [SUP]
2 [/SUP]Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
End of Day 1
Beginning of Day four:
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14 [/SUP]And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, [SUP]
15 [/SUP]and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. [SUP]
16 [/SUP]God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. [SUP]
17 [/SUP]God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, [SUP]
18 [/SUP]to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. [SUP]
19 [/SUP]And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
end of day four
Genesis is not arguing that stars form from planets.