“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.

Furthermore, the word void suggests that the earth had at one time contained something.  Something that is no longer here—thus, we have a void.  The entire second verse in the Bible is about disruption.  How could the earth of an all-powerful God who created it become a place that was empty, formless, dark and void?  A dichotomy.  What happened between verse one, and verse two?

That’s the part God doesn’t tell us about in the Biblical account.  That’s where strata comes in. 

I recently watched a documentary on television that used a process of underwater scanning to discover events that had taken place in the past.  The program was called “Draining the Oceans.”

One of the episodes concerned the discovery of an impact crater under the water. A crater left by an asteroid which hit the earth sixty-six million years ago--at exactly the same time all of the dinosaurs vanished.  I’m not going to go into how they date such events—this book isn’t about Organic Chemistry. Suffice to say that with carbon dating—the half-life of carbon decay—it can be done with an acceptable degree of accuracy.  Also, strata, and ice core examinations support the time line.