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Really? It says all that? Fascinating. I must have missed it.
Examine the texts, and whether any other interpretation is possible:
That the stars were created in the beginning, v1, is here:
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1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
That the luminosity of the sun impacted the earth later, in the 4th creation day, and that this relates only to light, and not the creation of the sun, is here:
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14 And God said: 'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.' And it was so. 16 And God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. {P}
The same also explains why the creation days are different in length from the rest of the days: these were not 24-hour days but epochs of time, because there was yet no luminosity.
This brings up the issue, how were the vegetation, fish and birds created before the luminosity. This is answered in the follow-up chapter, which says the life forms in the creation stage were inanimate, becoming animated when the light and rain cycle began, and the life forms became 'living souls'. Many meanings can be derived here, including the basic design and construct of an original and first model of the life forms, or what they were prior to being animated living souls. This is varied from personalised dna and skeletal structures, but refers to the fundamental design [wirings/sub-atomic structures?] what constitutes a life; because the personalised reproduction of each species are addressed elsewhere ['A seed shall follow its own kind'].