Posted: Dec 03, 2018 10:17 pm
by Alan B
Wortfish wrote:Gen 1:1 indicates that the universe was made first.


You are missing the point. The 'Universe' (as we know it) didn't exist in the minds of the people at the time of Genesis. The Earth, consisting of local horizon to horizon (including the Sun and the 'stars that moved in the sky'), was their 'universe'. This ignorance persisted until fairly recently when the telescope was invented

Theories of the Universe