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Moses would not have done this if he were simply recording his own observations. Today's base philosophy makes experience everything; Hume's scepticism is today's empiricism, now called "positivism."
It is a degrading system that drags down minds and corrupts hearts, as were the early positivists in heathen times, more deadly now than then.
Regardless, this is a fact not knowable by experience. Who that gathered his thoughts from observation would record light before the luminaries?
Why would Moses burden his account with a statement that seems incongruous?
Why do fossils, even the trilobites, have eyes? Light must have existed before. Ocular organs indicate this must be so.
The state of chaos might cause totally different conditions than existed before, even darkness. We are not told about this. What we are told about, under the six days, is about the earth as it was to be placed under man.
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