"In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. 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.  And God said 'Let there be light' and there was light. And God saw the light that it was good and He seperated the light from the darkness and He called the light day and the darkness He called night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."  Genesis 1:1-5

I find it interesting that the scientists of today are showing that the universe was created in an instant.  The Bible has stated that for thousands of years.  The Bible shows that God was there at the beginning and though my mind cannot fathom the fact of God existing before anything else existed, I take it in faith that it's true.  After all there is NO evidence to the contrary.

Another interesting thing was that God said "Let there be light" and there was light.  God spoke and the universe listened AND responded.  What does that mean?  To me that means that the Words of God are powerful words.  So powerful that even the universe and the laws of physics obey.  Now you can look at it this way as well, we are concieved and we are without form and void and darkness is upon us (in the womb) and the spirit of God moves across us and provides us with our spirit.  And the light that God speaks into existence is the spark of life our soul. 

The light is also the light of the world which is Jesus.  Whereas we lived our lives in darkness, God gave us the Light of salvation.  So as we wander this world

"And the evening and the morning were the first day" Genesis 1:5  I find that interesting too.  It states that the day starts in the evening and continues to the morning.  That explains to me why the Jews celebrate the Sabbath as starting at dusk on what we call Friday.  It also shows that at the end of the darkness there is light.  Our lives start out in darkness, in sin, and moves into the light as we give our lives to Jesus and God.

"In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth" Genesis 1:1
God was there at the beginning.  He created all things and has been here since before the beginning.  God has no beginning and no ending.  He's eternal.  In creating the heaven and the earth, there is nothing that can be seen that has not been created by him.  Boy does that sound a bit confusing huh.  In a roundabout way, I'm saying that everything you see was created by God.  I'm not talking about buildings and cars and such, though those were made by man, the elements used to make them was created by God.  By the way, just so we're clear on this, "created" means, in the sense of God creating, means made from nothing.  God spoke into existence the universe.  There was nothing before that.  No elements, no structure, nothing.  God spoke it into existence.  In this sense, man cannot create anything, he can only take what God has already created and make something out of it.  Not only did He create the universe, but He wrote the laws of physics that all things must obey.  Though, I wouldn't mind being able to violate the law of gravity once in a while.

"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." Genesis 1:2
This is the beginning of Earth and really our solar system.  According to science, when the solar system started, there was not star, there was just dust, and the dust coalesced (sp?) into an accretion disk with a ball of hot gas forming in the middle and around it the dust and particles started forming into rocks and planets.  It was during this time that the Earth was without form and void, and before the sun formed and started burning its hydrogen fuel source, it was dark.  The Bible does not go into details about how the Earth was formed, just that God made it.  Something to think about with this verse is that maybe it's also descriptive of us before we're conceived.  We "exist" in the form of an egg and a sperm and when the sperm fertilizes the egg, we begin to get our form.  We exist in the eyes of God yet we are without form until the egg is fertilized.  And the spirit of God moves upon us in the womb and our spirit enters our body.  Just a thought.

"And God said, 'Let there be light'; and there was light" Genesis 1:3
When God spoke, the sun burst forth into light and heat.  Starting the burning of the fuel source God provided for it.  The light could also mean the light of salvation.  God knows what's going to happen
"And God saw that the light was good and He seperated the light from the darkness" Genesis 1:4
"And he called the light day and the darkness he called night and the evening and the morning were the first day" Genesis 1:5

I have a number of friends who believe that the world is only a few thousand years old despite the fossil evidence and the ability of scientists to date things using Carbon 14 (an element made by God, by the way).  They base it on the scripture reference that says "to God a thousand years is as a day and a day as a thousand years."  I forget where that is, I think it's in 1 Peter or 2 Peter, though I'm not sure.  Anyway so when it's said in Genesis that God created the world in 6 days, that's 6,000 years.  I believe the interpretation of the 1000 years = 1 day and 1 day = 1000 years is a reference that states that God is not limited by time.  He is the creator of all things, including entropy.  So sure 1 day could be 1000 years or a 10,000 or 100,000 or 1,000,000 or 100,000,000,000 years.  Who's to say?  God knows and He gave us marvelous intelligence to use the tools and laws that He set up to figure things out.

I hope this has been. at the very least. entertaining.