Word: The Creation

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. The Earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep (i.e. covered the deep waters). And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters." Genesis 1:1-2

Genesis accounts for the early history of the Earth. Setting the stage for things to come (a future time that is here now), God is seen here as the creator of the heavens (herein as anything that is beyond the ground of the Earth), and the Earth itself. This early Earth, as the verse declares, lacked any form. There were no animals, nor birds, nor insects, nor humans. There was only complete and total darkness. It was simply a huge sphere that lacked any sort of distinctive features but earth and water. The only perhaps living thing at this time was the Spirit of God, which simply governed or managed this entire planet at the time.