The context of the Beginning indicates that Genesis and John are speaking in spiritual, scientific, and philosophical terms. In Genesis God brought Order to “chaos” by introducing energy (light) which created natural law. In John the Logos brings moral order to the human universe through God’s Love and forgiveness.
Have you read Kuhn’s book about paradigm shift? If so you know it is basically about Einstein’s theory, E = mc squared. Now it seems that you are saying Einstein was wrong. That could always be true, but w2e know that at a basic level the equation is true. Gravity is created by mass bending time.
This is a stupendous discovery which contradicts the basic materialistic understanding of our universe held by science and philosophy. If you ask me which is more likely to be true, Einstein’s equation which has been well tested even though there are some questions on its edges, or those who want to raise questions about the equation because it does not confirm their world view.
“The detailed particle physics mechanism responsible for inflation is unknown.” When God spoke energy into existence matter and anti-matter exploded and the universe expanded. No detailed mechanism needed.
“Energy = mass/ the speed of light squared” unites energy, mass, time, and space (speed) in the same equation, which makes them “relational,” mistakenly called “relative.” As you know according to the old paradigm time and space are not related, absolute, even though this is not true, and there is no going back to the old paradigm, even though very few people or so it seems really understand the new paradigm.
So we have the sad state of affairs where most people still cling to the old Absolutist paradigm, generally those who are Conservative. Many others have made a change to the pseudo-Einsteinian Relativist paradigm who are called Liberal. Again very few have accepted the Relational worldview which is at the heart of Christianity. So we go about butting our heads against the wall of Western Dualism instead of seeking to solve the puzzle of the One and the Many or the Trinity.