Did God create darkness? Without Light, there is darkness. Darkness is not made, it is just there. However, before the creation there was nothing. Does that mean that darkness was also not there?

Let us look at Genesis 1:5:


  1 In the beginning God created the sky and the earth.
  2 The earth was empty and had no form. Darkness covered the ocean, and God's Spirit was moving over the water.
   3 Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
  4 God saw that the light was good, so he divided the light from the darkness.
  5 God named the light "day" and the darkness "night." Evening passed, and morning came. This was the first day.


There is no mention in the Bible that suggests that God created the darkness. When exactly was Darkness created? Is Darkness a thing, or is it the same as nothingness?
Darkness is a physical reality of the physical universe.  It should be noted that darkness is really the absence of light.  We have light bulbs that light a room, but there is no such thing as a dark bulb that brings dark into the room.  Darkness occurs in the absence of light.

That being said, the physical universe was created by God.  The physical universe is made up of time, space, and matter.  Science now shows (with the theory of relativity) that the universe had a beginning.  There was a "time" when time, space, and matter did not exist.  The creator of time, space, and matter must be an entity outside of time, space, and matter.  God is Spirit and thus exists apart from the physical universe.  

Consequently, God is the "Beginner", who created the physical universe, including the physical reality of darkness.