From Genesis 1:
Then God said, "Let there be ahttp://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis 1&version=49#cen-NASB-6M firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." God made the firmament, and separated the waters which were below the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. God called the firmament heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also. God placed them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth.
What are these waters above the firmament? Here are several interpretations:
A. Water Vapour Canopy - Morris & Whitcomb (1961)
B. Orbiting ice rings - suggested by Glenn Morton in 1979 (Morton is no longer a YECist), and re-considered by Vardiman and Bousselot (1998)
C. Cosmic material - James P. Holding (1999) "Rather, it is our suggestion that these waters were the originally-created, basic building blocks of matter that ... became all that was created outside of our atmosphere and/or our solar system ... [namely] stellar matter, methane gas, asteroids, comets, etc."
D. Ice wall at the edge of the universe - Russell Humphreys (Starlight and Time)
E. Clouds
And finally,
F. MYTHOLOGICAL. The waters existed in the Hebrew picture of the universe, but not in the modern scientific understanding.
Then God said, "Let there be ahttp://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis 1&version=49#cen-NASB-6M firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." God made the firmament, and separated the waters which were below the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. God called the firmament heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also. God placed them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth.
What are these waters above the firmament? Here are several interpretations:
A. Water Vapour Canopy - Morris & Whitcomb (1961)
B. Orbiting ice rings - suggested by Glenn Morton in 1979 (Morton is no longer a YECist), and re-considered by Vardiman and Bousselot (1998)
C. Cosmic material - James P. Holding (1999) "Rather, it is our suggestion that these waters were the originally-created, basic building blocks of matter that ... became all that was created outside of our atmosphere and/or our solar system ... [namely] stellar matter, methane gas, asteroids, comets, etc."
D. Ice wall at the edge of the universe - Russell Humphreys (Starlight and Time)
E. Clouds
And finally,
F. MYTHOLOGICAL. The waters existed in the Hebrew picture of the universe, but not in the modern scientific understanding.