God does not create waste and desolate as would be implied by your reading of Gen. 1.1. Rather, God created perfectly in Gen. 1.1 over 13.8 billion years. But then the inhabitants of earth's earliest ages sinned. So much so they were irredeemable. So God caused the earth to become desolate and waste in Gen. 1.2. We know this occurred about 65 million years ago when an asteroid hit earth (we know its exact location today and size) to wipe out the dinosaurs. From then on the restoration of creation took placed summed up by the 6 twenty-four hour days. What is particularly noticeable is of the 6 days, only day 2 was not called a good day. Why? Because when the firmament was split unavoidably up came some of those demons that had been cast into the deep. One of those demons entered into the serpent in the Garden of Eden to tempt Adam and Eve. The rest is history. Only Gap Restoration explains why the dinosaurs were evil killing machines and the source of demons (disembodied spirits that seek to inhabit especially humans) prior to the Garden of Eden.
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