In the beginning the deep was formless. The subsequent account of creation shows how form and function go through several rounds of increasing order and complexity. The first was to take on the form of a sphere.
Formless > Formed
Hypothesis 26
Something really odd happened during the development of what we call mainstream theology. Somewhere along the line the words formless and void, have been taken to mean that there was nothing.
January 30th
There are three things in Genesis 1:2, besides the the deep, which describe the state of the universe before God said "let light be." We (that's me and the Holy spirit) use this to deduce that it was a zero-G environment.