Gap Theory Undermined by Gen. 13

http://creation.com/genesis-13-undermines-gap-theory

I and other CMI speakers still encounter people asking if there is a gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, or between 1:2 and 1:3. In my experience, most people don’t really understand why there would be a gap there, and all the particular nuances of it. Rather, it is something that they have heard about, which they then use it as an excuse not to take the Genesis timescale at face value. They believe instead that the purported billions of years can be fit into this alleged gap.

I would like to look at Genesis 1:1–3 from a different angle, from a non-technical angle, by comparing Scripture with Scripture. That is by examining the structure of the narrative (how the story unfolds), as it is often easier to see things clearly when the pattern is repeated elsewhere.
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The Creation Account is an account of the world men, in time, temporal and subject to decay. It is not an account of the creation of the world of spirits, not within time and eternal. To say otherwise is a huge assumption fraught with serious and insurmountable difficulties.

The Gap Theory was conceived to allow for the billions of years demanded by Darwinism.

I think the comparison of the literary devices employed in Gen 1 and 13 is, besides being eminently educational, a substantial and meritorious rebuttal.