@eladar said
That is the explanation. Something greater than us created everything. It may not be the explanation you like. You do not need to believe it. You just need to understand that what applies to a natural explanation does not apply to a supernatural.
Do that and you will be a lot less offensive to people who hold a different belief than your belief.
How light came to be is explained, roughly, as follows: The very early universe consisted of intensely compacted, hot, ionized gases. Under these conditions of intense heat and pressure, photons could not be propagated, therefore the universe was dark. The pressure caused expansion, or hyper-inflation; this caused the distance between particles to increase, thereby reducing the pressure and the temperature. Below some critical threshold, the pressure and temperature dropped to where photons could be propagated, and the universe 'lit up.'
That is what an
explanation looks like. It breaks down a phenomenon which
prima facie appears mysterious into smaller and smaller pieces, each of which can be empirically tested and verified; the pieces are then linked into a logically coherent chain of causes and effects, in accordance with observed natural laws, or at any rate not radically incompatible with observed natural laws or in outright defiance of natural laws.
Now what is your so-called explanation? God said "let there be light" and the lights went on. This is to explain something mysterious by something else even more mysterious. God said something and it just happened, poof!, creation
ex nihilo. This is no different than magic, this is the same as Harry Potter saying "wingazia levioso" and a plate suddenly starts levitating. This is no logical sequence of steps in compliance with observed natural laws; this is outright defiance of natural law.
Now, if you want to believe in miracles, that's fine. But miracles do not
explain anything. They defy explanation. Saying "Godidit" explains nothing. God is the most mysterious thing there is; "Godidit" is even more mysterious than that the lights went on. In order for an explanation to explain anything, the explanation must be
less mysterious than what is to be explained, not more so.
It is not that I don't want to believe the 'explanation' in the Book of Genesis. It's that it isn't an explanation.
Sensible Christians read the book of Genesis not as a factual account of man’s whence, but as a moral allegory about his wherefore.