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As I read them, most creation stories speak not of the creation of the universe but of the creation of this planet and its immediate surroundings and, more often than not, describe this planet and its surroundings as they appear immediately after some catastrophe or large-scale event which changes those appearances. The clearest such case is found in Isaiah:

ISA 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
ISA 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.

I have never seen anything in the bible or any other ancient literature which appears to talk about the creation of the entire universe. My own view based on what I read is that the idea of the big bang is BS based upon a misunderstanding of the nature of the redshift and that the same is true of the notion of an expanding universe. Having all the mass and energy of the universe collapsed to a point would be the mother of all black holes in fact; how's anything supposed to "big bang" its way out of that??

I assume that God and the universe itself have always been around.

Catastrophism

Big Bang, Electric Sun, Plasma Physics and Cosmology Etc.

Finding Cities in all the Wrong Places

Given standard theories wrt the history of our solar system and our own planet, nobody should be finding cities and villages on Mars, 2100 feet beneath the waves off Cuba, or buried under two miles of Antarctic ice.