That passage doesn’t even talk about the creation of the universe and Earth the way you imagine. It’s a monarchical text describing the formation of the kingdom’s region for that people. You keep looking for scientific explanations in an archaic text because otherwise you’d have to face the reality that you embraced a god among thousands — all of whom were created by men.

There is no God. The one you believe in didn’t create the world and was a liar and a hypocrite. Don’t feel bad — he wasn’t the only one, but among them all, he was the weakest. No wonder the people who invented him got beaten by everyone else, and to save face, they claimed he controlled the other nations. Typical of useless people.