How do you create earth after day and night? Day and night depends on rotation of the sphere. At that point, the Earth was still unformed.
How were plants created before the sun? Plants require the sun
How do you have lamps (sun and moon) giving their own light? The moon reflects light from the sun
Any explanations other than How much better and more satisfying it is to accept Scripture as it stands. It doesn't need to be fully understood and explained by modern scientific thought; it just needs to be believed and obeyed like found on ICR.com?
Perhaps I can offer an answer to your query?
Let me start with your basic phraseology:
"How do you create..."
It's obvious that you are approaching this as if Creation were done by "you" or a person like yourself. God is not a person. The capabilities of an omnipotent super-being is obviously going to be able to do much more than you could ever think possible. So to answer your question, God can do it because God is God.
Secondly, there seems to be a copious misunderstanding with regard to time. God is the keeper of time since it is His creation. He can spin time backwards, forwards, make it stand still or change the speed any way He pleases... again, because God is God.
Finally, there is often a misconception when it comes to the Biblical creation story. Skeptics like to scrutinize it as though it's supposed to be a documentary accounting of the timeline and events. But that was never the intent or purpose. Consider this; The story is not told from the perspective of an individual witnessing the events because the only one there was God. It is clearly presented in the assumed perspective of God. The purpose was never to describe the detailed timeline. Ancient stories are often told in a way that invokes the imagination. So this detailed timeline you are attempting to hold the Bible accountable to is merely a device of the storyteller to compel the imagination. The only intent and purpose is to convey that God is the Creator and He created everything.
One of the more fascinating things I learned in religious studies is regarding the Hebrew translation. The word "day" translates to
"yom." In Hebrew, this word has multiple meanings in context. To illustrate what I mean, let's take the actual word "day" and examine a different context. If I said,
"Mohammed Ali was a great boxer in his day!" Am I stating that for only one day, Mohammed Ali was a great boxer? Or do I mean something entirely different? The same argument can be made for
"yom." In Hebrew, it could mean an era of time. Indeed, in ancient Hebrew transcripts it is found to be used in describing anything from an actual day to generations. So we don't know the Bible means a literal
"day" in the story. And again, the purpose and intent is not to accurately document the timeline but to tell a compelling story of God's Creation.
The gods must be crazy.
