In my encounters with atheists, agnostics, and deists I’ve often heard Genesis 1 derided for its failure to address what God was doing between his creation of the universe and his formation of Earth. After all, two-thirds of the universe’s history takes place between the universe’s beginning and the earth’s formation. If the Bible is God’s Word, why would it ignore such a huge chunk of creation chronology? One skeptic asked me, “Was God so bored with his creation that he decided