So if you are like me, and accept the Biblical account in all of its parts as the true and faithful word of God, you need to have some idea of how it could all fit together.

Genesis 1:2b-3a "...and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.  And God said, Let there be light: and there was light...and God separated the light from the darkness."

We started this discussion with three words.  1. Create.  2. Made or make, and  3.  Let.  We also defined those three words.  Notice in the passage above, God says "Let."  "Let" means to allow to happen.  He doesn't create light, he had already done that in the first verse when God created...the heavens. Which included the sun.  And anything else that was here before the Genesis account.

God simply "let" something happen.  He allowed the sun to part the dust and debris-clouds that made the earth dark, and let the sun shine through.  This is absolutely necessary for the growth of plant life, which will provide food for all of the animals he is getting ready to create--and to restore.  I don't think this light and darkness has anything to do with day and night. I think it was simply a separation of the mess circling above our planet.  This allowed the sunlight to come in.

Yellowstone is the largest "super-volcano" in the world.  It has erupted approximately every 600,000 years.  It is overdue, and the ground in that region is rising.  They say that when it blows, it will blot out the sun in all of the USA and much of the rest of the world.  That the ash will destroy the ability of the country to grow food.  (No sunlight) That one by one animals will die--as well as most people.  These things do happen.  They have happened in the past.  By taking ice-core samples at the pole, scientists can look at the past--year by year--and see what has happened on the earth, and when.

Maybe super eruptions are what killed the dinosaurs.  However, in Montana, we find a multitude of remains piled up in silt.  Evidence of great waters rushing down and depositing hundreds of animals in that region.  We also find evidence of a flood in the petrified forest much further south of Montana, where trees have come to rest and piled up on top of each other in the thousands and thousands.  From rushing water.  It could be the planet earth has suffered many, many "destructions"  in its past.