LET THERE BE LIGHT

I saw the NASA pictures published on the Time website last week. One in particular caught my attention, or its caption even: "Even when the Sun is shining, the sky appears dark in low Earth orbit, because there isn't enough atmosphere to diffuse sunlight."

And I started to think that maybe that is what the Genesis author meant when he wrote: "Let there be light". Maybe it was the apparition of the atmosphere he was describing.