Cosmic Rays from Space

     I often wondered why, when God wanted to smite somebody, he used something ordinary like plague or hailstones instead of Cosmic Rays from Space. Zapping people seems a lot more spectacular, but God tends to use natural forces he has already created. Supernatural use of natural forces will cause a lot of the suffering in the tribulation as well. He also tends to punish us with the natural consequences of our sins. God had no problem creating everything, but he is economical in its usage. He actually invented recycling.
    It is this tendency of God not to reinvent the wheel that makes me believe that the days of creation were probably 24 hour days. Creation specifics are one of the many disputable areas in which Christians are free to disagree, it is not a teaching essential to salvation. But I believe God went out of his way to include the phrase "and there was evening and morning", with the days of creation to debunk the idea that "day" could mean an unspecified period of time. Both eons of daylight and eons of darkness would kill the plants and animals if they were anything like those we have now.  It's almost like God anticipated the theory of evolution.  "Day" probably means day.
     Likewise, I think "day" meant a 24 hour day even before the sun, moon and stars were created, because God tends to use the natural system he has already set up.  If his intention when he gave us the sun was to establish 24 hour days, he probably set that system up on day one. However, the disappointment that I will only see Cosmic Rays from Space in sci-fi movies, is worth the relief of not having to live looking over my shoulder, waiting to get zapped.