Creation Undated: Two Stage Biblical Creation

Why not accept both "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," and then God worked in six described literal days finishing Earth and filling it with life? . For decades, Young Earth and Old Earth Creationism have been locked in a no-win battle. Old Earth Creationism accepts that God created the heavens and the earth in the beginning resulting in an older universe, but does not accept six literal day-night days. Young Earth Creationism accepts God's creation work in the six literal days but denies an older heavens and earth that God created "in the beginning." Two Stage Biblical Creation accepts both God created the heavens and the earth in the beginning, but the earth was uninhabitable (Gen. 1:1-2) , then God worked six literal described days making earth lighted, habitable, and inhabited (Gen. 1:3-31) , resulting in a Biblically undated (until Adam) creation. These two stages - the Biblically undated creation of the universe in the beginning, then life on Earth - match both the original Hebrew Bible creation text and the actual physical creation.To understand the two stages - "In the beginning," then the six described days - challenging questions had to be answered from the original Hebrew and Greek Bible creation texts:. What does "beginning" in Genesis 1:1 mean - a starting instant or a beginning time?. Did God create the heavens with the galaxies on day four about 4000 BC or in the beginning?. Do Adam's descendants' genealogies date the universe to about 4000 BC or only roughly date Adam?. Does Psalm 19:1, "The heavens declare the glory of God," indicate starlight from distant galaxies has a (false) appearance of age, or reveal the truth about God's past work?. Does Exodus 20:11 in the inspired original Hebrew say God created everything "in six days"?. What do the ordinal numbers (second, third, etc.) without definite articles (no "the") - "a second day," "a third day," "a fourth day," "a fifth day" (NASB) - indicate about the six described days?. Does the violent animal death evident from the fossils come after Adam or after sin? Who sinned first?. Does this Biblically undated two stage creation fit both the Hebrew Bible text and the physical creation? . Can Two Stage Biblical Creation, with both the ex nihilo creation of the universe in the beginning then six literal days, be a bridge for reconciling Old and Young Earth Creationism?. Creation Undated - Two Stage Biblical Creation takes both "in the beginning" and the six days literally for a Biblically undated (until Adam) creation, answers the above questions, matches the Hebrew and Greek Bible creation texts, matches the physical creation, has been taught by Bible believers for centuries (although is a minority view today) , allows an older universe and earth (which science discoveries affirm) , may be the solution to the Old versus Young Earth Creationism conflict, and forms a key part of Biblically sound, winsome Christianity to the glory of God.