"He just created a shapeless blob of matter in Genesis 1:1; that’s why it is formless and void."

That is what man has said too many times.

This is what the LORD says in Isaiah 45:18:

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.

Compare that to Genesis 1:1-2

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. 


Doesn’t sound like He created something formless and void. He formed it to be inhabited in the beginning.

Mt. Arrarat is a little over 17,000 feet, about 3000 feet higher than anything in the lower U.S.  Given that Noah started somewhere in the vicinity of sea level, that would mean that water poured into the area where he was at the rate of 400+ feet a day.  If you were in NYC, the water after the first day would be at the fortieth floor of the sky scrapers.  Have you any idea what that amount of water running down of of the mountain would do to anything at the foot of it?

 
 
 

The pressure increases as you go down into the water at a rate of approximately .5 psi/foot of depth.  If there were enough water to just cover Mt Arrarat at 17,000 ft altitude, the pressure at what is now sea level would have been about 8,000 psi.  Now since mass is mass and does not change. if all that water were initially above the earth before the flood, no matter how it was distributed in altitude ithe integrated effect would be to produce at sea level a pressure of about 8,000 psi.  Even more the amount of light that would penetrate that much water is essentially zero.  The entire earth would have been pitch black.  Now do you really believe that before the flood the earth was in absolute darkness existing under an atmospheric pressure of 8,000 psi?  You can believe what you will, but that does not sound like a climatic condition for longer and healthier lives.

Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin',
But I'll know my song well before I start singin',
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

First of all carbon dating is not accurate. Secondly the Bible supports a young earth. Third, the gap theory will not stand up to an indepth reading of the Scriptures. The Gap Theory argues that there is a gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, during which there lived successive generations of plants, animals, and perhaps pre-Adamite men (though see 1 Corinthians 15:45). According to some, God destroyed this original creation due to a Satanic rebellion. Genesis 1:2ff, therefore, is supposed to describe a re-creation, while the gap between 1:1 and 1:2 allows for the ancient fossils of the geological time column.
There is absolutely no biblical basis for this compromising theory. There are several important grammatical considerations in Genesis 1 that militate against the Gap Theory.
(1) Genesis 1:2 begins with "and" (Hebrew waw, a copulative) which argues against a long span between these verses. The Hebrew grammars and lexicons consider 1:2 to be an explanatory noun clause which describes a state contemporaneous with that of the main verb in verse 1 (cf, Weston Fields, Unformed and Unfilled, pp. 75-86).
(2) Note Genesis 1:26.; Man was given dominion over all of the earth and every creature upon it. This is not consistent with the notion that many generations of living creatures, over which man hadno dominion, had already died and become extinct by the time humanity arrived upon the earth.
(3) In 1:31 Moses wrote: " Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good." At the end of the creation week, everything that God had made was still alive upon the earth. Moreover, it was pronounced "very good." Corruption, death, and extinction had not degraded the creation yet.