The correct answers to these open questions are the following.
1.- St. Augustine's teaching on Creation.
St. Augustine taught that the Almighty God was the creation of everything that existed on planet earth. God had the power to create everything out of nothing. So at the beginning of times, there was nothing and then, all of the sudden, God created the world and everything that exists.
2.- The teachings of Genesis 1 and Genesis 2.
The teachings of Genesis 1 and 2 are metaphors aimed to explain the creation process according to the Bible. Knowing that it is a very complex issue, the Bible tries to use metaphors to explain complex things so everybody can understand the meaning.
This is the case with Genesis 1 and 2, which refers to the "Six Days of Creation," when God created light, land, plants, the sun, the planets, the animals, and finally, humans.
3.-"God created everything in six days."
As I wrote above in point number 2, these are metaphors that help the authors of the Bible to explain complex issues, like the creation.
Of course, this is the version of the church, expressed in Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament.
There is the counter-perspective, Darwinism, that creation was a process of evolution, from the very start to the end, when humans appeared on earth.
So both visions have their supporters. One is scientific and the other is religious. One is based on science and the other, on faith.
