9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place. The word heaven confirms where the water went. Because in verse 8, what just was given the name heaven?
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
The second day was the creation of both the canopy, and our atmosphere. And then it was given the name heaven (because it would contain life). So in verse 9, when the waters under heaven were gathered into one place. It was all the water that was just divided by the creation of air. So now we have waters above (canopy), and waters below (seas or oceans).
The second part of verse nine says: And let the dry land appear: and it was so.
This is where YEC makes the mistake of saying that the earth was a sphere of water (all liquid). God did not say He created the land, He said to let the land "appear". Which means the land was hidden by the water, but was there upon the creation of the earth. when God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1).
The dry land appearing here was the "first" separation of land. This separation did not cause fault lines to appear. Why? Creation before the first sin cannot have things that would cause death. Having a moon orbiting at some point, with fault lines would create earth quakes because of the moon's gravitational pull. So the first separation of land and water did not contain fault lines. So it was not until the water receded from the flood, in which more water had to go under ground (second separation of land), that caused the faults.
Picture one is how the earth would have looked after the first water receding from the face of the earth.
Genesis 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Picture two shows the seperation begining as the water from the world wide flood receded from the face of the earth. More water was actually created by God to flood the earth. So when the extra water receded under the earth's crust. The crust had to expand more.
Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
The final result of the earth's crust expansion is shown here in picture three. This expansion also created all the major fault lines around the world. Evolutionists would ask: Where is all that water for the flood? It's in a mineral called wadsleyite. There is enough there to fill 30 of our oceans. You can read more about this here: Noah's flood.
So the pangea ends up being the explanation of the first and second crust expansion because of water that had to recede off the face of the earth.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Earth equal dry land. So upon the water receding off the face of the earth, dry land (earth) appeared. Then God named the body of water seas.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
This is a bring forth type commandment. God said for the earth to bring forth plant life, and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Verse 12 is a confirmation of the earth bringing forth what God had commanded it to. And then ends the third day.
