The gap theory is the view that God created a fully functional earth with all animals, including the dinosaurs and other creatures we know only from the fossil record. Then, the theory goes, something happened to destroy the earth completely—most likely the fall of Satan to earth—so that the planet became without form and void. At this point, God started all over again, recreating the earth in its paradise form as further described in Genesis.
Nayo nchi ilikuwa ukiwa, tena utupu, na giza lilikuwa juu ya uso wa vilindi vya maji; Roho ya Mungu ikitulia juu ya uso wa maji." Nadharia pengo ni mtazamo kwamba Mungu aliumba dunia kikamilifu ikiwa na wanyama wote, ikiwa ni pamoja na dinosaria na viumbe wengine tunaojua kutoka kwa rekodi ya nishati.