Creation account does not mention creation OF the planet.

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.

It's not needed, it just was the case. Genesis says God created the term 'day' to refer to a period of light, and the term 'night' to refer to a period of darkness. Not at all. Genesis speaks of the time between the first morning and evening being the first day. Thus, the creation of divided periods of light (for without this, you cannot have a morning) is precisely what the layout of the days depends on.

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The term "day" refering to the light "half", as opposed to the dark "half", is not the same as the term "day" refering to the whole 24 hours. The light and dark were separated on the first day, but there was nothing to mark the 24-hour cycle until the fourth day.In any case, that's all just a tangent. The real question is whether the planet was created before the 6 days or during the 6 days (ignoring the fact that the 6 days are nonsense).I'm just saying that there's nothing in the text to indicate a "gap" of unknown duration between "the beginning" and Day 1.

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