In Genesis, the way Earth is described, it sounds like the Universe not the Planet.
Otherwise, how can the Earth be without form or void?
Why else would God create the Earth before the Sun and Moon?
Earth is name for both the Universe and the Planet we are on. I think.
The Firmament is the edge of the Universe. Heaven isn't in the clouds, it's the edge of the Universe.
God creates space, then he creates light, which we call "the big bang". Then something I don't understand. Then God separates the edge of the Universe from whatever is outside it with Heaven. Then he gathers "waters" which could refer to molten rock or literal water, to create a planet.
Verse 1 says he created the Earth and 2 says it was without form.
But Verse 10 refers to a different Earth that is dry land.
These are clearly two different Earths.
Therefore, space might be flat, in which case the Universe is infinite. I think? I don't remember the math on that. Curved space would prove the Universe is finite, but I don't think the reverse is necessarily true.
Genesis 1:1-18
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
I wouldn't recommend trying to suss it out by one's own logic, particularly because the principles of creation are very different from the principles of nature that we currently observe around us.
