@wandeljw,
What a silly, trite and juvenile little piece of amateur satire that Onion piece is
It is posited on a literal interpretation of the language of the Bible and is thus similar to the YEC's view.
Quote:Light is electromagnetic radiation, particularly radiation of a wavelength that is visible to the human eye (about 400"700 nm, or perhaps 380"750 nm. In physics, the term light sometimes refers to electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength, whether visible or not.
If one takes the proper intellectual view of having "seen the light" and seen it in the mind's eye, as Einstein did, a more adult understanding might prevail although I very much doubt it as the whole of the anti-IDer's stance rests upon the use of literal interpretations as a straw man or, as I prefer to say, a carefully positioned sitting duck.
Which light it is is open to debate. Meditations upon the Venus of Willendorf is one possibility but it is likely that in a feminised zietgeist such considerations will be on Ignore.
A less controversial alternative is having seen the light relating to the development of script and its potential for effects at a distance
(television on might almost say).
Both possibilities involve the necessity to draw a line under the "past" and thus to invent it in a manner less damaging to the self-respect of those to whom self-respect is important.
The Pythonesque method of never allowing anything sacred to remain unknocked is always popular with the uneducated and powerless lower middle-classes but it can easily lead to a strongly felt urge to undergo psychoanalysis and other strategies of shame reduction.
-- as if all my friends and relatives are religious and all of them have nothing to discuss with me but the weather and cooking. It's about that time for you, isn't it? 
But, then, I suppose you don't drink on the Sabbath.
