The book of the Beginnings start with the creation of the universe, and the author accounts for it in one sentence "In the beginning God created the heven and the earth." He says nothing as to the details of how or when but just in the far-off beginning, however remote that may be God created all things.
Some hold that after the original creation of verse 1 there was a pre-Adamic catastrophe plunging the world into the condition of chaos discribed in verse 2. If such was the case. the time interval between the two verses could be millions of years long, accounting for whatever are the geologic ages of the earth's history.
The other view is that verse 2 describes not disorderly chaos but anunformed mass of material, wich God then proceeded to takeand form on the creative days according to the predetermined design.
The Sixth and seventh
Let us notice the order of events on the six great days as though we were watching the transformation taking place before our very eyes. Fist, we see the earth, wich was without form and void, and the spirit of God brooding over it, as though He were looking out over the vast expanse, meditating. On the first day God said, "Let there be light" and instantly there was light. The light was separated from the darkness. God called the former Day; the latter He called Night.
On the Second Day God formed the firmament, the great expanse divided waters that were about it from waters under it. The expanse He called Heaven.
On the third Day there was a gathering together of the waters under the heavenly expanse into what God called Seas, and the dry land wich He called Earth appeared, forming the continents and Islands. Soon afterwards green grass and trees were made to appear.
On the fourth day the lights in the firmament of heaven, that is, the sun, the moon, and stars, were made to function.
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