Creation account does not mention creation OF the planet.

It all depends on how you want to interpret it.Why do you choose your interpretation?

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Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence.
Letting the reigns go to the unfolding is faith, faith, faith, faith.
Science has failed our world.
Science has failed our Mother Earth.
-System of a Down, "Science"He who makes a beast out of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man.
-Avenged Sevenfold, "Bat Country"

There's plenty of other stuff the Bible says that contradicts science. This verse is negligible. Whoopty-do... So you want to interpret the Bible as literal but still hold on to an old Earth?If there's a motive behind your interpretation then it is intellectually dishonest. You're forming the scripture around your beliefs rather than forming your beliefs around the scripture.But whatever... you can do what you want.

Right, not in the text but, it must be so because the Earth is old