Thank you for the response. I have been trying to explain this to my friend. However I seem to lack the aptitude to convey, that even though there were photons they would not have produced light as we know it. The photons would have been interacting with charged particles in the universe and would not have been able to travel freely until the universe decoupled and took on a nuetral charge, there by allowing the photons to travel freely. Is this still on the right track so far?
'Qui non intelligit, aut taceat, aut discat'
The mind is like a parachute. It only works when it is open.-FZ
The industrial revolution, flipped a bitch on evolution.-NOFX