You likely mean some other verse.
Genesis 1:2 reads:
Nothing there about destroying living things.
By the way, the "waters" referred to are not earthly oceans, but water in the heavens.
And it could be more than beautiful metaphor, since scientists speculate that much or all water on earth arrived here as comets from the heavens.
Just mythoughts: "There was nothing left to transition. Jeremiah 4:22-27; II Peter 3:5-6"
These do not sound to me like the moments of first Creation, but of some later event such as the biblical flood.
What's certain is that none of the biblical authors had any real idea of the Earth's actual history, and so God's moral revelations to them had to come in forms that they could understand.
None of those moral revelations are overthrown by our more recent scientific discoveries, imho.
No, I do indeed mean Genesis 1:2, that word 'was' is not the correct verb, 'became' is the correct verb. The earth became without form, and void: and darkness was upon the face of the deep. (water... a flood)
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
All these words describe the katabolle, or used in other places as the foundation. Meaning the casting down or overthrow. (The overthrow is described in Isaiah 14:12- and Ezekiel 28:12-) Job 38 to the end is kind of an inventory of what was created and asked of Job where was he when God did this and that.
Isaiah 45:18 For thus saith the LORD That created the heavens; God Himself That formed the earth and made it; He hath established it, He created it NOT in vain (same Hebrew word used in Genesis 1:2) He formed it to be inhabited: " I AM the LORD' and there is none else.
Nothing there about destroying living things. By the way, the "waters" referred to are not earthly oceans, but water in the heavens. And it could be more than beautiful metaphor, since scientists speculate that much or all water on earth arrived here as comets from the heavens.
I won't disagree about what scientist speculate, but about the only thing they are correct about is this earth is very very very OLD.
Just mythoughts: "There was nothing left to transition. Jeremiah 4:22-27; II Peter 3:5-6"
These do not sound to me like the moments of first Creation, but of some later event such as the biblical flood. What's certain is that none of the biblical authors had any real idea of the Earth's actual history, and so God's moral revelations to them had to come in forms that they could understand. None of those moral revelations are overthrown by our more recent scientific discoveries, imho.
Jeremiah writes that everything 'living' was destroyed. NOT Noah's flood. And Peter in IIPeter 3:5-6 specifically describes that world (age) that was and is not discussing Noah's flood, as Peter discusses that time in the previous chapter.
The 'authors' were putting down what God intended them to write, and there is not a scientist ever born that has disproved what God said He did, WHY, and WHAT to expect.