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Just mythoughts: "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)"

I don't read Hebrew, but I'd be amazed if the Hebrew word for "became" somehow got mistranslated as "was" by every ancient scholar:

"VH'aUrTSh HYThH ThHV VBHV VChShK 'yL-PhNY ThHVM VUrVCh 'aLHYM MUrChPhTh 'yL-PhNY HMYM."

King James: "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"

American Standard: "And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters"

Young's Literal Translation: "the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness is on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,"

Pal, the correct word is not "became", and whoever told you it is should be questioned carefully.

Just mythoughts: "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,"

I'm not familiar with those events, but they appear to me to have nothing to do with Genesis 1, which begins with: "In the beginning...".
And I don't see any way you can translate "beginning" to mean there was actually something before that.

Just mythoughts: "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."

Most of my posts here on the subject of Evolution include some pretty obvious and basic descriptions of the difference between science and religious faith.
By definition of the word "science" it's impossible for science to "disprove" an article of faith.
Neither science nor faith works that way.

Faith comes from the revealed word, which cannot be proved or disproved by science.
Science comes from natural methods entirely without reference to revealed Truth.
Science simply cannot speak of matters for which there is no physical evidence.

Prepare yourself to be amazed, because the transition of that word to ‘was’ when it should be became is one of many words from the original Hebrew and Greek that have been transitioned.

IF it correctly read ‘became’ then Genesis, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Ecclesiastes, Job, Christ's own Words, Paul, Peter, etc., would not be so hard to comprehend. I did not write it nor did I transition the word, but I sure do appreciate the world of difference it makes to have it correctly translated.

God said he did NOT create this earth without form, void, and darkness. He said He created it to be inhabited. SO since God said he did NOT create this earth in the condition as described in Genesis 1:2, Jeremiah 4:20- IIPeter 3:5 it BECAME that way.

True science explains things, it does not make things up as it goes along. There is but one perfect scientist and that would be the Creator.... and He took the time to have somebody write down the WHY.