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But then it goes on to say

4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

27God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.>>>

But they obviously had not happened because there was no man to till the ground.

Ch 2
22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

God had already created both man and woman so why would he take a rib out of Adam to make a women if the men and women he had created had been fully developed?

I don`t know and am not saying you are wrong, just an idea but there is no scripture which says God made Adam on the sixth day, that is just an assumption.

You may note that it says
in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens

We could argue that God made the earth and the heavens in one day instead of six days but I happen to believe it took millions of years.

Genesis 1: 26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Skip to Genesis 1:31 where is says there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Man was made on the sixth day.

You're getting hung up on the word generations thinking it means great time periods. The Hebrew there can be translated as:

1) the account (New American Standard)

2) the generations (King James Version)

3) the account (Hebrew Interlinear)

The issue of how long it took God to create the universe and earth, etc comes from one of two viewpoints.

The Christian viewpoint is that the Bible is God's authoritative word and that Genesis 1 gives us the account of how and how long it took God to create the universe.

Science attempts to explain this but they leave out the possibility that God created. It is assumed in science that all this just happened.

If you google big bang or origins of life on earth you'll get a lot of theories on how we got here.

The big bang model incorporates assumptions to make it work. Take those assumptions out and the model falls apart and you're back to square one....how did we get here.

To believe all of this came into existence without God requires one to believe the following:

1) Something comes from nothing

2) Life comes from lifelessness

Which requires greater faith....believing In the beginning God, or the latter two choices?