Why did God describe the light as being good, but not the darkness? In the account of creation in Genesis 1, it seems that God describes many of the things He creates as being &quot;good&quot;.  Verse 2 indicates that prior to there being light, there was &quot;darkness over the face of the deep&quot;.  God's first created act, aside perhaps from the heavens and the earth themselves, is light.  He specifically calls the light &quot;good&quot;, but not the darkness.
So, was the darkness &quot;not good&quot;, or did God simply not explicitly declare it as such?

1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. (Genesis 1:1-5, ESV)
If you look over the account, God pronounced all of the things that he created "good," after he was finished creating them.  But look at what it says about the darkness: the earth was without form and void, and darkness covered everything... and then God said "Let there be light" and Creation began.

This implies that darkness wasn't something that God created, but rather the default state, the absence of the light that God created.  (Which is in line with modern scientific knowledge about the nature of light and optics.)