Which is older, the Earth or the Sun?

Oh, this is getting fun.  In Genesis 1:1-2, it says that God created the heaven and the earth and the earth was dark.

¹ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ² Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

 Now, I always figured the sun was older, scientifically speaking.  Even Answers.com agrees with that assessment.  I couldn't find where they get their info.  I'm sure since it's on the internet, it's true eh?

Wait though, lookie what I found all over the internet today while asking which is older.  I just happened to pick Yahoo.  Isn't this interesting?  I believe I remember in school (mind you this was a few years ago) hearing how the Milky Way formed then the individual stars came together out of a sort of nebula and after that the planets formed. Wellsir, all this new scientific stuff about the age of water on the earth being older than the sun.

Now, mind you what is translated "the deep" is actually the word for sea AND later on scripture indicates that the earth was covered with water.   That means the whole earth was dark thus it must have been first.  Well what do you know.  The Bible tells it like it is.


This brings us back to the same type of question I asked yesterday.  If man would have written the Bible without input from God, why not make the sun first.  Heck, it's bigger and is needed for life on earth.

Of course there is the argument that people used to believe that the earth was the center and the sun rotated around it.

BUT!  Why say that the earth was formless and darkness covered the deep?  That would indicate that there was no light, especially when the next verse talks about God creating the light. Even if the sun revolved around the earth, why create the earth first?

Next post will be about the light.