Moses?
Inspired by God?
Nope... God tells us this...
Genesis 1
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." . And there was evening, and there was morning--the first day
Notice God tells us the period of time... Continue reading Genesis to see what God does the following days.
You are adding to God's Word.
But it seems you are trying to fool everyone with your additions to scripture.
God wasn't on drugs as He inspired scripture?
Do you think God now breathes a sigh of relief that you give him a pass on fiction?
Yes, God inspired men and Moses to write Gen 1. It is importantly to read things in the Bible as normal human communication as much as possible.
You do not understand the Hebrew construction of the opening verses.
You don't understand section titles and how they were used in memorization.
You don't understand that a scene is painted before any creative work is done in the sense of Gen 1's days. Other creative work was done way before this. What matters to the account of Genesis (because the Bible moves efficiently to tell how man is to be redeemed) is what pertains to man, not all the details we wish about the universe or 'formless and void'.
You don't understand what 'formless and void' implies in its connection to other cosmologies and to Jer 4:23. Even if you only compared to to Jer 4:23, you have to say that there is a complex backstory. While writing the script of LOTR, Jackson said 'we knew we had to give the whole history of the place when Gandalf met Elrond at Rivendell and no later, but some of it had to be at the very beginning, or else you'd have this mysterious ring that was unmysterious to the viewer.' The backstory of Jer 4:23 is that a kingdom was started and peaked and was destroyed by God for its failures. Now read 'formless and void' not as bare physical description but as the end of an involved backstory.
There is the issue of morning and evening before the sun is there. It is reasonable to say that morning and evening are for account structure rather than a statement about celestial mechanics before day 4.
I'm not fooling anyone, but optical illusion dating is your admitting that God is fooling around. It sounds like Obama about Alaskan ice. There is scientific knowledge that you may not have that helps ground the Bible, like Oct23 on Heb 11:2. I hold some doubts, but I'm still considering it. There have been some scientific items you have mentioned that have been helpful, too.
About writers taking drugs or fantasizing, I'm just declaring for the person not familiar with the Bible, that it is clear to me as an ordinary document from the times that it is neither. I've read others which were either clearly bookkeeping records about debts or ENUMA ELISH. It only resembles EE during the 6 days. With all its theologically-useless items (rivers, gold, races) being very easily verified, I don't know why the theological lines would be tossed. Most of EE sounds contrived by comparison.
