Wow, the firey hoops you have to jump through to tell us that literal truth is being told by a book that simultaneously describes the earth as having four corners, and it also being a circle.
Maybe a simpler explanation is it's just a f**king allegory...? If I tell you I'm blue, I'm not telling you I'm literally the same color as a Smurf. I'm telling you I'm sad. Poetic f**king license. And I am blue... I'm sad that you've bought into bullshit to the point that you have to execute unfathomable feats of mental masturbation to rectify your holy text as being literal and infallible. It claims insects have four legs, mustard seeds are the smallest (they aren't), calls bats birds, and calculates pi to be 3. Poetic. F**king. License.
You ask me for evidence (which I have provided, the entire fields of biology and cosmology, it's YOUR responsibility to educate yourself not mine). You rebuke me quoting scripture from the bronze age. Get bent. You exemplify the reason the human race may not survive.
You're quoting a book written by people who barely had the bow and arrow, to denounce science which has provided more security, comfort, knowledge, opportunity and entertainment than you can even fathom. You're using a global network of computers (invented by scientists) to do the equivalent of flinging feces. Pray to your invisible sky pal, I hope he brings you everything you deserve. :)
The concept of "nothing" is meaningless. There doesn't have to be a "nothing" from which the universe was "created". The universe simply IS, and trying to conjure some nothingness from which it must have sprung from is a pointless exercise in mental masturbation. Our world exists, and we have not a shred of data indicating an intelligent creator, much less a meddling one who leaves the prayers of dying children unanswered, while blessing whoever made the last touchdown in the NFL.
