Still others would construct the whole fabric of the universe by chance accidents and by random collision, fashioning it by the movement of atoms of different shapes. On the fourth day the luminaries came into existence. Since God has foreknowledge, he understood the nonsense of the foolish philosophers who were going to say that the things produced on earth come from the stars, so that they might set God aside. In order therefore that the truth might be demonstrated, plants and seeds came into existence before the stars. It is because there was not yet time before the world existed.
Some people teach that the first men lived nomadic lives among the woods and plains.
They were not united by any bond of speech or laws. Instead, they lived in caves and grottos, using leaves and grass for their beds. They were prey to the beasts and stronger animals. By attaching names to various objects, they little by little developed a system of speech. The nights in this reckoning are considered to be component parts ofthe days that are counted.