"The greater light to rule the day" (Genesis 1:16) first functioned on the fourth day of a literal creation week. We know this because the verb made is used synonymously with created throughout Genesis 1.

From very ancient times men have been tempted to worship this brilliant creature (Job 31:26; Deuteronomy 4:19), but the fact that God created it after the earth and even after plant life, demonstrates once and for all that the sun is neither indispensable nor ultimate.

And the sun's enormous and continual loss of mass through nuclear fusion (calculated to be four million tons a second) points unmistakably to an original creation when high-level energy and order was built into it by God.

So the sun provides a magnificent illustration of the second law of thermodynamics and the total inadequacy of evolutionism.