Defining "created"

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. You probably heard it so often you can say it without looking.
The bible used the word created just created. It goes on about darkness and God saying, "let there be light." But created very general.
Here is an anology.
An artist wants to paint a picture or create one. What happens next? He buys a canvas. I am told that if he is a good artist he makes his own so what does he need if he makes his own one example is wood and the right kind of wood. Then he needs that stuff that you paint over. What does he need next? Paint, brushes. I apologise if I am leaving something out. He may check his own supplies...whoops he is running out of a certain color, got to go buy some and brush has been used too much so he has to buy a new brush. Okay he has all his supplies. Now he is standing infront of the canvas ready to paint.
There is so much more that goes into the word create. Create is like beautiful maybe doesn't fully capture what you are talking about, and used too much.
Science is studying this. The creation of the world. If you have taken Biology 101 or Life science, you probably were taught about how the world was created. I am terrible with science but that part of it always interested me, along with the debate of creationism and maybe the big bang theory.
I think the Christian community should embrace the science community and visa versa.
God dumbed down "In the beginning," so we would understand but some is starting to come out. WHo put those explosive gases there? Who created the gases? God is an artist.