Genesis 1:1
Genesis 1:1 - “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
The geocreationist perspective is that Genesis 1:1 occurred before anything else. Before God said “Let there be light,” He created the heavens and the earth. Before moving over the surface of the waters, God created the heavens and the earth. Before hovering over the deep, God created the heavens and the earth. Before there was a “deep” covering a “formless and void” earth, “God created the heavens and the earth.”
It is a common view that this verse is merely a summary of the entire chapter of Genesis 1, and from a literary perspective, that view is quite rational. After all, Genesis 1 is easily viewed as “the beginning”, Heaven is recorded getting “created” on Day 2, and the earth is recorded getting “created” on Day 3. Therefore, as the argument goes (quite rationally), because the heavens and the earth are not created until Days 2 and 3 respectively, verse 1 must therefore be a summary of Creation in general. Well, if the purpose served by verse 1 were purely literary, then I might agree. However, based on the geological record, it happens to also serve as an accurate historical record of the first thing God did. He created the heavens and the earth.
Now, if Geocreationism is correct that God created the heavens and earth even before saying “Let there be light,” then how does that play into Days 2 and 3?  Well, scripture clearly records that God created the firmament on Day 2 and called it Heaven. Then what is Genesis 1:1 referring to? The answer is the celestial bodies, including the sun, moon, and stars. (Read more about “the heavens” in Genesis 1:1 here).
As for Day 3, it is true that God created dry land and called it “Earth”. In fact, we still refer to dry land as “earth”, and we also call the planet as a whole “Earth”. Again, context is important.
Getting more to the point however, we see that on Day 4 God made the celestial bodies visible in the firmament. Geologically speaking, there was a time when the composition of the atmosphere prevented one from seeing the celestial bodies from the earth’s surface. We also know that the atmosphere’s composition later changed to make them visible. Given the geocreationist view that this is in fact what Day 4 records, it would imply that the celestial bodies already existed. This makes sense. After all, the appearance of dry land on Day 3 did not constitute the creation of the mountains and terrain, but was merely the process that made the existing mountains and terrain visible. It is similar here. Day 4 is merely the process by which the existing “heavens” became visible. Both the earth the and heavens already existed. They existed before the firmament was called “heaven”, before God said “Let there be light”, before His spirit hovered over the waters. They were created before all of that, in the beginning.
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”