Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
Notice how God’s first sentence declares that atheism, pantheism, polytheism, fatalism, materialism and evolution are all dead wrong. It is taken for granted that God exists, that He is one God (as opposed to “gods” or “the gods”), that He had a specific plan of creation, that He is personally involved with His creation (read Genesis 1:1-31 ), that He created all matter, and that all of this happened suddenly, rather than evolving over billions of years. Genesis 1:1 is God’s rebuke to the so-called theory of evolution.
Genesis 1:2: “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”
What happen in Genesis 1:2 is further described 2 Peter 3:5-6, “For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:” Note “waters” in Genesis 1:2.
Many Bible scholars are mistaken when they claim the flood in 2 Peter 3:5-6, is a reference to the flood of Noah.