> The closest science has gotten was to actually corroborate that, yes, this was all not infinite and had a starting point (big bang), literally corroborated let there be light.
Georges Lemaître, one of the original articulators of the Big Bang was a Catholic priest. He did not appreciate Pope Pius XII characterizing his research as confirming "let there be light." There are many references to criticism he received for publishing a theory that meshed well with "let there be light," however I am not able to find any primary sources for them.
It is, however, pretty wonderful for the Big-Bang-is-creation view that light comes into existence on the first day, and God doesn't get around to making the sun until day four.
You are conflating a localized source of photonic emission with light.
Light is an electromagnetic field that permeates everything in and through. Without the field first there are no photons, there is no physics, no gravity.
God claimed to be this force. In all. Through all. Nothing could exist without it.
How would a primitive people know this, understand this? They could not. We certainly can.
Georges Lemaître, one of the original articulators of the Big Bang was a Catholic priest. He did not appreciate Pope Pius XII characterizing his research as confirming "let there be light." There are many references to criticism he received for publishing a theory that meshed well with "let there be light," however I am not able to find any primary sources for them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre#Views_on...