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The state of chaos might cause totally different conditions than existed before, even darkness. We are not told about this. What we are told about, under the six days, is about the earth as it was to be placed under man.

Are the great geologic periods analogous to the six days? Are the six days vast successive eras? No, they are not, even though seemingly analogous.

In vast periods God built up this globe gradually in successive exertions of His power, and in Six Days went over His work again after a last great catastrophe, before man, on a circumscribed and brief scale, to prepare it for his habitation.
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