Creation

I post a comment on Dare to Know's blog.
Here is the complete answer.

Yes, I do believe that God(elohiym) created the heavens and the earth, but not in the way it is taught.

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Gen 1:2 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.

The words without form is the Hebrew word tohuw . It is also found in Isa 45:18, translated vain.

Isa 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.

So if God did not create it that way something must have happenned inbetween verse 1 and 2 to cause the world to be tohuw.

Ok let's cut to the chase. Most people believe in a 7 day creation. I do not believe that and do not believe the Word of God supports that. Genesis 1:1 uses the word create(bara). God does not use the word again till the 4th day where he created(bara) great whale. I know we have all learn on the first day God created, but it does not say that.

Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Now to answer DTK's question.

Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

How can you replenish something that has not been plenished before. I believe everything they find fall in the first heaven and earth. Animals and man that are now are different than what was then. I believe the life that is now, the life that leaves the body when it is dead is different from that what which was before.