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Just mythoughts: "Genesis 1:2 AND the earth (only speaks to and about the earth) (my King James places that word was in italics, which means the word used is questionable)..."

Here's what is not questionable --
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,"

So, your earnest wish to read the word "was" to mean "became" is not granted by the text, according to any expert that I can find.

Just mythoughts: "This is NOT Noah's flood, but it is the flood that Jeremiah 4:22-27 describes where in nothing living survived."

I can't see what difference it makes, or what any of this has to do with discussions on the topic of evolution.

Not quite there BJK [re-read verse 27]...

Jeremiah chapter 4 verse
27 This is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be ruined, though I will not destroy it completely.

Reading the surrounding passages in context indicates that the ‘whole land’ in this case is either Israel of simply Jerusalem. From a quick read I believe it is either a reference to the day of the Lord [end-times] or another time where God tells his chosen people to flee the promised land.

There were no warning for the sinners in Noah’s time. See Genesis ch 6 thru 8. And there were no people or any other lifeforms when it was formless and void.

Context, context, context!!!

Just mythoughts: "Genesis 1:2 AND the earth (only speaks to and about the earth) (my King James places that word was in italics, which means the word used is questionable)..."

Here's what is not questionable -- Young's Literal Translation: Genesis 1:2 "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,"

Young did not literally translate from the Hebrew. There mere fact that he picked hath existed ought to cause 'red' flags to go up, because hath existed is an sophisticated attempt to deceive or misdirect. We already know from Genesis 1:1 the earth hath existed.

Genesis 1:2 says AND continuation from verse 1 the earth became or elsewhere this verb is came to pass. without form does mean 'waste'.

So God planted in Isaiah 45:18 Using that very specific Hebrew word ... again 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, He formed it to be inhabited: "I AM the LORD;

and there is none else.

So, your earnest wish to read the word "was" to mean "became" is not granted by the text, according to any expert that I can find.

Young is not an expert IF right off the bat he messes up Genesis 1:2.

Just mythoughts: "This is NOT Noah's flood, but it is the flood that Jeremiah 4:22-27 describes where in nothing living survived."

I can't see what difference it makes, or what any of this has to do with discussions on the topic of evolution.

The importance of Genesis 1:2 and allll those other Scriptures that described Genesis 1:2, is to let any one who WILL know there was NOTHING left for evolution to evolve. Every living thing in 'flesh' was destroyed. We can see all over this earth the remains that once lived, in this land before 'time', but all was destroyed. Which is why so many for a buck down through this AGE have gone to extremes to 'change' what God said happened in Genesis 1:2. You really think God did not know that some would claim evolution was the vehicle used to explain HIS creation and HIS WORK.