You have been reading inferior bible translations that's
why.
If you read the New Revised Standard Version(NRSV) which you
sometimes quote from, they actually translate it as:
In the beginning when God created* the heavens and the earth,
2the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the
deep, while a wind from God* swept over the face of the waters.
The idea we get here is the heavens and earth are still in the
process of creation. So verse 1 is like a "topic sentence".
Subsequent verses will provide the elaboration.
The NRSV reflects some of the best modern scholarship on the Bible.
Their translation of verse 1 is in agreement with what we find in a
Jewish Bible translated into English. I quote from the Judaica
Press Complete Tanach:
1. In the beginning of God's creation of the heavens and the
earth.
2. Now the earth was astonishingly empty, and darkness was on the
face of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the face
of the water.
