What about the section immediately following "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."? You know, that little piece that explains the how's and why's ~ to wit: "The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters."
Looks pretty much like a formless, void and dark "soup" of some kind ~ maybe even a "deep soup".
Could be all sorts of things come out of that ~ maybe the Universe itself.
"The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters."
Dig deeper the verb "was" is not the correct verb, should be "became", was not created that way "formless and void".
Isaiah 45:18 is second witness for it not being created in vain.