On The Strange Places We Find Science

It's weird to me now to make much out of the little science any sacred text seems to be consistent with. Consider that Democritus was thinking about atoms decades before the Bible, and even before science as we know it. Many philosophers existed before the Bible and I can imagine that some were of the school of thought that the universe (whatever they understood that to be) had a beginning, and some were of the school of thought that the universe always existed. With this is mind, I am not surprised that the Bible gets some things right, but we all agree it's not trying to be a science textbook or else it would have avoided problems like this

Would it have been that difficult to say "created the sun to make light for the day and the moon to reflect the sun for the night?" Of course, the Bible, like all sacred texts, was only written by humans with their perspective at the time.