That's the first of 18 propositions discussed in John Walton's The Lost World of Genesis One (hat tip: Ben S.). He continues that Genesis "does not attempt to describe cosmology in modern terms or address modern questions. ... [The Israelites] did not know that stars were suns; they did not know that the earth was spherical and moving through space; they did not know that the sun was much further away than the moon, or even further than the birds flying in the air."
Walton also reminds us that "there is no concept of a 'natural' world in ancient Near Eastern thinking. The dichotomy between natural and supernatural is a relatively recent one." That certainly does highlight a problem with the way some today try to turn Genesis into a description of natural events as outlined by modern science: Big Bang, life, human evolution, etc.
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