2. The second source of information concerning that sudden disappearance of what was living on earth is the Biblical source, and it is more subtle.  In the very first verse of the Bible, it says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”  But in the second verse of Genesis, God describes that this perfect earth he had created had been destroyed.  He says it this way, “And the earth was void, without form, and darkness was on the face of the deep.”   He is not describing something he "created." 

Obviously, something must have happened between verse one and verse two. Creative works are perfect.  God created the heavens and the earth.  All of it.  He didn’t create an void, dark, formless mass as is described in Genesis 1:2.  

When those long-ago animals existed, there had to be a food chain.  Starting with plants.  Plants have to have sunlight.  The sun was there at that time .  Also, there was water.  The Bible implies that there was water on earth before the destruction between verse one and two, because verse two says that there was darkness on the face of the “deep.”  

Water, “the deep,” already existed on the earth when verse two was written.  God had created “the deep” in verse one along with everything else because in verse two it says, “And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”  You can’t move on the face of something that isn’t there.