We thank you Lord that you created the world and everything in it.
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. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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The above verses tell us simply that God created the earth. It doesn't tell us anything about a time scale, whether it was days or millions of years.
What is often forgot is that this is before 'the first day'. It is simply 'a beginning'. The was nothing to measure days by. A definition of a day has changed slightly over the centuries. Then it was the time between sunrise and sun set. At that time there was neither!
What can we learn from the above?
That the earth was without form and empty, it was dark and that there was a lot of water.
Over 2/3 of the world is water. The tallest mountain could quite easily fit into some of the oceanic trenches. So simply if the land was evened out over the whole globe, it would be a planet totally submersed in water.
Where the biblical account differs from the scientific is that Genesis mentions the darkness, while the scientific theories centre around the sun being created before the earth; the earth being an off-shoot of molten rock which has cooled over millenia.
There are quite a few anomalies with the theory. How could water get here in the first place, especially if the earth was super-heated rock – it would have vapourised the water well before there was an atmosphere to hold it, and why haven't all the other planets got water if it was so abundant in the first place? Scientists look to water to be the main difference between our planet and the others.
But in truth the difference is that God wanted it to be different – so we could have life!