Fair enough. If you want to believe the creation tale in Genesis was written as a history and should be read as such, that is your right.
May I ask you a question? If you believe the earth is only 6000 some years old (which I am assuming you do), what accounts for science which reveals a vastly older age?
SD
The Bible does say that the earth was without form and void.
Without form and void for how long? I don't know.
A proto-earth void of life and form until God created life in, yes, six days.