@joey: yes it does before the 10th-13th century, people believed light to be emanating from the eyes. So light does not come from the sun, it is necessary for god to be able to see before he puts things in position, hence light is created first.
The Islamic scholars discovered light was not something our eyes sent out, in the 5th century in India people start to think light was actually coming from sun and stars, put those two things together, and a ‘modern day understanding’ of light was only proven by the 15th century when people started working on telescopes and not until the 17th century with Newton that light was discovered to be energy.
Funnily enough, the most efficient way of illuminating or rendering a scene on the computer is by shooting out rays from the ‘eyes’ of the viewer and then rendering what it ‘sees’ and nothing else. So it’s not so ‘weird’ as we think about light as coming from our eyes, although you would have to accept the world does not exist if people are not there to see it, so you can see some interesting philosophical tendrils.