because they have been adequately dealt with elsewhere and have few exponents any longer. The Gap Interpretation, also called the Ruin-Reconstruction Interpretation, is based on a misreading of the phrase “without form and void” in Genesis 1:2.6 Supposedly this phrase means that the world was in a condition of total chaos, an interpretation read back into the creation account from later passages that deal with sin and judgment. Thus, there is a time-gap between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. Supposedly