There are reasons why I dimiss the gap theory, but I didn’t write this as a polemic against it. Morrises quote about the movement of the Spirit across the waters, possibly meaning “Vibrating” doesn’t seem to do any damage to the text seeing that the same word is rendered shaKe and flutter.
Then you would probably be best served by not mentioning it.
If you're going to use a particular wrench to remove one spark plug, mentioning you won't use it on another plug without an adequate "why" ALWAYS makes a critical thinker suspicious.
You are ironically missing the beautiful nuclear physics that phrasing invokes because the first few minutes of the so-called Big Bang Theory are very exactly described in Genesis. In smaller quantities, they are what we see every day today in the world's high energy particle accelerators and nuclear reactors, and (in the stars) all around us in space
In particular, the subtleties of the above translation (in the box highlighted above) exactly match the sequence of high energy nuclear reactions required as the universe cooled off after it was created. And, in fact as well as in deed, the entire (future) universe would “vibrate” as waves (energy at the speed of light) as it cools down to form solid matter).
Note that the Creator separated light from darkness AFTER light was created - something that can does actually happen as matter is formed from high energy particles as they cool to our more familiar protons, neutrons, and electrons from that miraculous “stew” of boson, quarks and electromagnetic energy.
True, an itinerant illiterate shepherd whose culture doesn't count past “seven times seventy” cannot be expected to keep track of the differences between water and other high energy fluids that nuclear engineering requires, but truly, what is the difference in the Creation Story between “waters” and high energy ions, interstellar gasses and dust clouds, plasmas, quarks, atmospheres and oceans and molten rock?