Genesis Question for Religious Moderates [View All]

[LAGC]

I was just curious, I understand how a "liberal" reading of the first part of Genesis in the Bible explains away the 6 days of Creation as if a day to God was like a million (or billion?) years to us, but how do you explain verse 16 which explains what happens on the fourth "day":

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Is there any way that can be interpreted other than meaning that the Earth was created first and the sun and moon and stars came after? Are we really, in the 21st century, that Earth-centric to believe that this little world is where it all started? How can you square this with the Big Bang Theory of the origins of the universe, that the stars came first and the planets much later? I'm just trying to not think too literally here, but I don't see how you can interpret that verse any other way.