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Quote by: Winter wind  And yet the earth and sun were not created until much later. This passage sounds eerily familiar to the Big Bang. So what's to say that days and nights lasted longer before there was an earth to rotate on it's axis once every 24 ish hours? |
Because what we call day and night only exist in relation to the Earth's rotation around our Sun. We invented days, weeks, months, hours and seconds all based on our planet's rotation. Those same conditions don't exist any where else we know of in the universe.
Imagine an alien race traveling through space. Several generations are born while in space. They would have no concept of time based on the rotation of a planet around a sun. They'd either follow the conventions handed down to them, as we have, or invent another method of tracking time, if they even appreciated the passing of time like we do.