I just started reading Calvin's Commentary on Genesis. Great stuff.
The preface/argument contains an excellent critique of higher criticism - modern skeptics who don't believe Moses wrote it.
On verse 3, God creating light, there is a wonderful response (400 years before the fact) to silly objections (***coughcilvancollegepeoplecough***) about having light 4 days before you have the sun:
"To nothing are we more prone than to tie down the power of God to those instruments the agency of which he employs. The sun and moon supply us with light: And, according to our notions we so include this power to give light in them, that if they were taken away from the world, it would seem impossible for any light to remain. Therefore the Lord, by the very order of the creation, bears witness that he holds in his hand the light, which he is able to impart to us without the sun and moon."
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