How in the world God created light before He created the Sun and the Moon?

The difficulty we face in reading and understanding this is that we don't see what the meanings of some of the words in the description of creation are from the original Hebrew where many words have dual meanings and significance. The idea of light and dark runs throughout the creation narrative, from the first words "darkness was upon the earth" to a verse later where we hear God's declaration, "Let there be light". This is also the same order for the order of days: "There was evening and there was morning ...". The terms darkness and light; evening and morning both mean and don't mean light and days as we understand them, but they do present a singular consistency. The opening in verse 1 tells us what God is doing and verses 2 and 3 give us the introduction to God's method; he is creating order. This is the meaning of the words; the word used for "darkness" describes a great disorder, or chaos and "light" describes order. God is saying that out of the great chaotic, or disordered nothing he is creating a great ordered something. This explains how "light" was created before the sun and moon where the distinction between light and dark is first noted as to "separate day from night", not using the words "evening" and "morning". We see creation proceed from "day" to "day" in the words "evening" and "morning". These two words aren't quite as profound as the first two, "darkness" and "light". The word for evening does still mean chaos, but in a sense of blurriness as things become less visible as the evening moves into night. The second word is in the opposite reference, to seeing things more clearly; where things are "orderly" which is the secondary meaning of the word for morning, when the sun rises. The use of the words tells us something else also. The first words are not words that involve seeing as the words evening and morning do, thus they give us the separation of, or creation of matter and time from eternity. The rest of the order of events from one day to the next express the development of material creation in surprising similarity to the development of the universe as explained by the big bang theory, which has a surprisingly similar beginning to "the beginning", "Let there be light".