God doesn't say He destroyed the dinosaurs before Adam but He dose say two of every kind went onto the Ark. Those that went onto the Ark, came off the Ark after the Flood and those were the creatures that repopulated the earth. Noah and his sons, with their wives, were the ones through whom the earth was repopulated with people. Every other land dwelling air breathing creature died in the flood. That is where most of the fossils come from.
Genesis 1:1 refers to God's initial perfect creation. Everything that God made was beautiful, there was no sin anywhere. Verse two, on the other hand, assumes that a great catastrophe occurred that caused the earth to become in a chaotic state through the judgment of God. According to the Gap or Ruined Recreation Theory, the formless and void state, as recorded in
Genesis 1:2, is in direct contrast to the perfect initial creation. Something happened between the first two verses of Genesis to cause the earth to become desolate and uninhabitable after having been made perfect.
After this unknown amount of time between the first two verses, God began a re-creation or restitution which involved successive days. The remainder of the first chapter of Genesis deals with the reconstruction of the earth,
not the original creation.
The judgment is usually spoken of as a flood because of the statement of
Genesis 1:2 - the earth was covered by water. This judgment is also known as the Luciferic flood named after the angel who became the devil.
The cause for the judgment is rebellion of Satan. All of the inhabitants of the earth were judged by God, leaving behind fossil remains.
The present plants and animals living today have no genetic relationship with the fossil left behind by the judgment of God.
The Hebrew conjunction waw that begins
Genesis 1:2. It is almost always translated as "but". There is a contrast between what was stated in
Genesis 1:1 and the statement of
Genesis 1:2. Moses is emphasizing that the earth was created perfect
but something happened that caused to become formless and void.
The word translated was in
Genesis 1:2 is the Hebrew verb
hayah. It is possible to translate it as became or had become. Thus, the earth was created perfectly and then became without form and void. The world, though created perfect, became desolate and uninhabitable. What had previously been a perfect world was now ruined. In other places in the creation account the verb
hayah is translated became or had become.
Genesis 1:2 describes the earth at the time of the creation as being without form and void or desolate and uninhabitable (Hebrew
tohu wa bohu). Are we to assume that a perfect God created the world in a chaotic condition? The phrase without form and void seems to require some type of judgment.
Genesis 1:2 speaks of the world in a state of darkness. Darkness is almost always used in Scripture as a sign of sin and judgment (
Jude 13,
John 3:19). Furthermore, God did not say the darkness was good as He had said about the light (
Genesis 1:3). If God originally created the world in light, then something caused the earth to become dark.
The original creation was in
Genesis 1:1. What happened on the six days of Genesis was not creating but rather making over. There is a distinction between the verbs create
bara and made
asah. The verb
bara is used with regard to God creating while
asah means refashioning and carries the idea of making something into something else.
