(4) In what kind of soil and in what locality? Were these trees, grass, herbs, planted at the North Pole, equator, in a subtropical or in a mild climate? Was it winter, spring, summer, or autumn? Was it sandy soil, as in the deserts of Arabia, or hill, valley, or mountain? Or was it really somewhere in Chaldea where the story originated? Remember, we have no sun yet. Verse 13: "And the evening and the morning were the third day." God takes his rest during the night, like any other toiler on the surface of this terrestrial globe. He did not believe in working after proper hours. No doubt he started with sunrise and stopped at sunset, as shepherds and agriculturists usually do. And God simply suspended the natural operations and went to bed. I don't blame him. He was tired. Then again, grass might and does grow in a season, but trees do not. It takes quite a number of seasons for trees to bear fruit. The elements that enter into their composition differ. Some have more of one element, and grow on certain soil and flourish, while others do not. Moreover, there are only certain localities on earth where the growth of any can be accomplished. The fourth day's work is something prodigious: Verse 14: "And God said, Let there be light in the firmament of the heaven" (in the eighth verse God calls the firmament heaven, but in the 14th calls it 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." Verse 15: "And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon earth: and it was so." Verse 16: "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser to rule the night: he made the stars also." The inventor or the writer of these passages had not the slightest conception of what he was talking about. He spoke and wrote of the mere appearance of what he beheld daily and nightly, the sun and the moon. They could not know, in those remote ages, the important role the sun plays in the solar system, because whatever is known thereon is of very recent date. Talk of setting the sun in the firmament, 93,000,000 miles' distance from the earth, considering its bulk, weight, and condition, is an outrage on common sense. It is a monstrous piece of stupidity to make children believe it, and it is an infamous fraud for any priest or preacher to teach it.