Evening and Morning

Ahoy there, my friend. There is actually a very easy way to interpret this that not only makes more sense but also does away completely with this little paradox you have mentioned.You are right in saying that a sunrise-sunset day requires for a sun. However, you are slightly misled in thinking that the 'days' being mentioned are of the sunrise-sunset sort. The 'days' in Genesis 1:1-2:3 are most certainly references to 24-hour periods of time. Taken this way the reference to evening and morning makes sense in that it is telling us that it was the evening-morning switch over period at the end of one 24-hour cycle at which point it is as late into the evening and as early into the morning as it can possibly be. This is further evidenced by the fact that the reference to evening always occurs before the reference to morning.Also important to note is that there would have been no further distinction in time periods as we use them today. In other words, there would have been no morning-evening switch over period since there would have been no need to distinguish one half of the day from the other half of the day. All that was needed was one term (evening) to describe the end of the day, and another term (morning) to describe the beginning of the day. Because the day is not officially ended”i.e., there would not actually have been one day”until the evening is fully over, and because at the time when the evening fully completes the morning begins, we are given indication of the passing 24-hour period in reference to the completion of the evening and the beginning of the morning”"and there was evening and there was morning..." indicates that one full 24-hour period has just been completed.I hope this helps your understanding; God bless.
Jon

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Beware the Jabberwock, my son!