From the huecotanks article you posted, lets look at this, this is from that article,\
This verse implies that the "heavens and the earth" were created more or less at the same time. Scientifically, we know that the "heavens", that is, space, appeared billions of years before the earth ever appeared. The sun is at least a "third generation" star, which formed from condensed gas clouds made up of remnants of at least two supernovae from previous stars.
The "heavens" is not space in the bible, literally. We understand it space given our present knowledge, and in its day the people who wrote it understood it in their own context. The ANE people thought the universe or reality was comprised of three realms. There was the underworld below us, where the dead lived, then there was the realm of the living which is us and then there was the heavenly realm which was above. So the three realms were all in an order, God on top, us living in the middle, the dead at the bottom. In the biblical story the context is anything but modern science. Do you think a scribe living 3000 years ago had an idea that the sun was a star? No. So God is up there, and we are down here, this is the reason why the KJV uses the word "firmament" when Genesis say that God divided the waters above from the waters below, that he placed something "firm" in between. They are not talking about clouds, its the heavenly realm which is the waters above, from what we have on earth namely oceans. And the same concept ties in the flood of Noah when "the windows of heaven" were opened and water flooded down. Where does that water come from? from the heavenly realm, the realm above. It was from God, a punishment.
EDIT: BTW, this is the same reason, ANE tried to build the tower of Babel, because they actually thought there was something solid, firm up there, a heavenly realm, someplace they could reach. If they used the word heavens as space, like we do today then they would know better that that's not something solid, nor something they could reach. But the fact is, they did believe that and therefore the word heavens didn't carry the same meaning to them as we do today.
So understand this, you can't judge Genesis entirely through modern science, genesis has it own context and themes and purpose.