I’ve seen proofs from pro old creationists and new “recent’ creationists and all of them get their ‘proofs’ from scripture as well as make a lot of suppositions from what i call “white space” doctrine(the white spaces between black letters of the bible).
I recognize a Gap between Genesis 1:1 and genesis 1:2. So I’ve decided that I have a mindset based on the fourth commandment that speaks of “in 6 days God created the heavens and the Earth and on the 7th day he rested” and is an anchoring truth that I could not reject. Since Jesus often spoke of Moses and the law and that Christ, who was the fullfillment of the law, after all having “created all things” and was that Word, which existed before all things, that was made flesh, I find myself in agreement to a seven day creation cycle concerning this era of creation we live in now.
Still at some point there was an Earth created in the times of Genesis 1:1 that God in Genesis 1:2 found water covered and empty and darkened. Some Bible scholars of differing sorts claim...”from the bible” mind you that they have found evidence that Earth may have had life and civilizations before and that the initial war against Satan may have brought vast destruction upon a pre genesis 1:2 earth. Your Precambrian explosion as fashioned by God may very well have occurred 585 million years of our current earth years ago, but it may have had no direct connections to what God did on Earth in Genesis verse 2 and thereafter.
So I’m open to both camps old and ancient and new... I am aware of the Bible passage speaking of the ancient sea creatures found on the mountain tops that would date older than Noah’s flood...using modern dating methods. An ocean covered Earth pre-verse 2 would explain such life at least until the earth became darkened.(if we can trust modern dating methods to measure past eons accurately based on current laws of physics and how they are operating presently.) It all points to a far older Earth than some Christians would be comfortable with accepting. As for me I believe the Earth has a history we know little about prior to Genesis 1:2 but what is important for us is the 7 day Earth Re-terraforming event, started in Gen 1:2 That God/Jesus did, that started the current cycle of God’s dealings with the Earth that we are in today, which included, of course his creation of Man by his direct hand and means, being made in his Image and Likeness.
With all due respect, already having praised your mind, I leave you with this: your lips work much harder than do your ears.